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Why the Romans were successful - they were imperfectionists, perhaps?

When teaching perfect-imperfect, throwing this information into the ring might help kids get to grips with the differences. And might end up making them into better students.....

What I Was Doing Vs. What I Did: How Verb Aspect Influences Memory And Behavior

ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2009) — If you want to perform at your peak, you should carefully consider how you discuss your past actions. In a new study in Psychological Science, psychologists William Hart of the University of… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on March 13, 2009 at 5:53am — 1 Comment

Latin Teacher Dawn La Fon Featured in News Article on the Relevance of Learning Latin

From The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, March 4, 2009:

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/mar/04/my-profession-teacher-living-language/

Andrew Reinhard

Added by Andrew Reinhard on March 11, 2009 at 2:36pm — No Comments

Terence Awards Winner Announced

It is with great pleasure that I announce this year's winner for the first inaugural Terence Awards for excellence in student-created films on Classical and Latin themes. There are two, official cash-prize awards:

Best Use of Latin in a Film ($250.00) sponsored by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South's (CAMWS) Committee for the Promotion of Latin

Best Picture ($100.00) sponsored by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers/eClassics

Thanks to both of these… Continue

Added by Andrew Reinhard on March 9, 2009 at 12:27pm — 1 Comment

AF4

Here is the first file, uploaded here for your convenience. Andrew
Aristophanes_Birds-Part1.mp3

Added by Andrew Reinhard on March 6, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

AF3

Aristophanes_Birds-Part4.mp3

Added by Andrew Reinhard on March 6, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week

It's National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week (NLTRW) and I am answering the call from Sherwin Little, President of the American Classical League, to celebrate the week with my third grade students!

Yesterday coincided with a national reading event called Read Across America (See http://www.nea.org/readacross/) which marks Dr. Seuss' birthday on March 2th.

My third graders were amazed to learn that there was a Latin translation of The Cat In the Hat – Cattus Petasatus, (Dr. Seuss'… Continue

Added by Zee Ann Poerio on March 3, 2009 at 5:48pm — No Comments

Ludi Latini

I wrote a longish blog post on Latin via gaming on Latinblogg (managed by eClassics member Moa Ekbom). If you're interested in learning Latin with computer and console games, read the post here. Thanks to Ms. Ekbom for the invitation to write on my favorite subject. A more complete, formal paper will appear later this year as part of the published proceedings from the recent Greek… Continue

Added by Andrew Reinhard on March 3, 2009 at 5:44pm — 6 Comments

Erasmian pronunciation

Salvete omnes,

or I'd rather say

χαίρετε, ὦ πάντες

I've just created a new group which main aim is to discuss about greek pronunciation. See it at

http://alphabetumgraecum.ning.com

Visit ALPHABETUM GRAECUM

Feel free to join us and tell your opinions and experiences with reading or speaking ancient greek in your… Continue

Added by santi on March 2, 2009 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

Take your classes online: WiZiQ virtual classroom

Skip to Slide 3

Take your classes online : Introducing WiZiQ Virtual Classroom by Sarvinder Sandhu…

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Added by Mark Cruthers on March 1, 2009 at 10:31pm — No Comments

Computer Games in Latin

I stumbled across a computer game that has been translated into latin called Zelda, and another called Zelda 2.
As I know nothing about computer games, I'll leave it up to others to comment on these. I've no idea about the quality of the translations.....

Added by Latinum Institute on March 1, 2009 at 8:15am — 2 Comments

Report on the Greek and Roman Games in the Computer Age Conference, Trondeheim, Norway

Report on the Greek and Roman Games in the Computer Age Conference

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

February 20-21, 2009

Prepared by Andrew Reinhard

Summary

A revolution is happening now and the flashpoint is Scandinavia. Both Sweden and Norway have fought and won to keep Classics as a vital and viable subject of study at the secondary school and university level. Activist bloggers like Moa Ekbom in Sweden (see her… Continue

Added by Andrew Reinhard on February 24, 2009 at 6:35pm — No Comments

Scholiastae project

This came in a couple of days ago on Classics-L; I thought it might be of interest to some of the people here.

From: Wm Annis

To: CLASSICS-L@LSV.UKY.EDU

Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009, 4:02:45 AM

Subject: [CLASSICS-L] A new web project: www.scholiastae.org

After years of hoping fruitlessly for web-based software to work up texts in the same way I do for Aoidoi.org, I finally gave up early this year, and learned how to write MediaWiki…

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Added by Raphaela on February 24, 2009 at 3:42am — 15 Comments

Latinum Podcast Update

My work on Latinum continues - I do some work for the podcast every week, and I am now gradually processing the Comenius material, which is slowly making its way online. Comenius is proving surprisingly popular - I think the reason for this is the existence of a huge body of texts in multiple languages, making his works by far the most accessible textbook for an international audience - all this, despite its having been written in the sixteenth… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on February 21, 2009 at 4:55am — No Comments

Catalogue of Mediaeval Digitised Manuscripts.

New as of February 2009, is the Catalogue of Mediaeval Digitised Manuscripts.
A growing number of these are being digitised, and placed online. Many have not been published. As time goes on this will doubtless grow into an enormous resource, where the educated amateur Latinist would be in a position to actually make a contribution to scholarship, or if not that, certainly just have fun poking around.

Added by Latinum Institute on February 18, 2009 at 12:00pm — 4 Comments

A Delight I found today. This is a simple dialogue called Familiarium Colloquiorum Formulae, graecè et latinè. Cebetis,... Dialogus qui [...] inscribitur, cum latina interpretatione. @ hoc est : feli…

A Delight I found today. This is a simple dialogue called

Familiarium Colloquiorum Formulae, graecè et latinè. Cebetis,... Dialogus qui [...] inscribitur, cum latina interpretatione. @ hoc est : felium et murium pugna, tragaedia graeca, nunc primum Latinitate donata. @ , hoc est : Ranarum ac murium pagna Homeri, unà cum scholiis Philippi Melanchtonis antehoc nunquam editis. Elipsii Galentii amphratensis, de… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on February 15, 2009 at 4:48pm — 4 Comments

Greek Podcast?

Does anyone know what has happened to David Clark's new Classical Greek podcast based on Kendrick's text? The blogspot location is now dead, and the material here about the podcast appears to have vanished. The podcast seemed to start off really well, if it has died a death, it would be a real shame. Hopefully it has just moved somewhere else......

Added by Latinum Institute on February 14, 2009 at 3:04pm — 5 Comments

Gesturing and learning

Toddlers who use gestures more often have better vocabularies on reaching school age, US researchers say.

They say those who convey more meanings with gestures at 14 months have larger vocabularies at four-and-a-half years and are better prepared for school.

Parents and teachers could help children learn to speak by encouraging the use of gestures, say psychologists from the University of Chicago.

Their study, in Science journal, was announced at the AAAS… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on February 14, 2009 at 2:56pm — No Comments

recte pronuncianda?

Our endless pronunciation discussions are Lilliputian, Gulliverian, nay, verily, Blefuscian. With only - what - 500 people on the planet truly fluent in spoken Latin ad lib. we should have other concerns.

Those who carp overly much at other's pronunciation simply terrify, most responding by keeping their jaws clamped as though afflicted with the rictus, lest they be immolated upon the pyre of rectitude for proferring a misplaced stress, a poorly weighted syllable or - by Jupiter - an… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on February 13, 2009 at 3:41pm — 1 Comment

Teaching Latin Online, Part I---by Andrew Kuhry-Haeuser, Instructor, Carmenta Online Latin Classroom

Several months back I met Andrew Reinhard, the founder and caretaker of this site, through a series of email messages. He told me about the eClassics site and I told him about myself, specifically about how I had started teaching Latin on the internet. He was interested in hearing about my experiences with the format, and since he thought that others might be interested as well, he suggested that I submit something about it to eClassics—something describing the logistics of teaching in the… Continue

Added by Andrew K-H on February 11, 2009 at 2:05pm — 6 Comments

APA Outreach on iTunes: "Podcasting and the Classics" now available for iTunes and your audio-player

I am happy to announce the availability of the talks from the Outreach Panel, "Podcasting and the Classics," APA/AIA 2009, on iTunes.

In order to access the talks through iTunes, you point your browser to the following link:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=303493715

Your web browser should prompt you to launch iTunes. You will have an option to subscribe. All episodes are free of charge.

This debut gives our… Continue

Added by Chris Ann Matteo on February 8, 2009 at 5:34pm — No Comments