A colleague of mine in the Neo-Latin world, was recently publicly expressing his skepticism of the Tar Heel reader project. Why, he said, don't you publish through a regular publisher? I tried to explain the utility of digital books, their application to the modern classroom, interactive white boards, and, most importantly, the ease of their distribution.
Can printed Latin children's books be found in bookshops up in the Outback? or small Pacific Islands, or in China?
The map…
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Added by Latinum Institute on July 27, 2009 at 3:30am —
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Before
Schola, the only other chatroom that regularly had people in it, was
this one. This only sees action once a week, and has a devoted group of followers. It is necessary to register to use it. It is well worth a visit.
We need to remember how few people there are who have the ability or desire (different things!) to write
in Latin at conversational pace -…
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Added by Latinum Institute on July 26, 2009 at 5:47am —
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Today, I stumbled across a webiste that could possible prove very useful - it has affinities with the tarheel reader site:
It is called dotsub.com
http://dotsub.com/
Latin appears on the drop down menu of languages, but no-one has made any Latin resources yet.
The site is very simple to use - possibly even easier than tarheel reader: It has videos (which can be searched by category). You can easily write…
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Added by Latinum Institute on July 21, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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Eduardus GLL sodalibus s. p. d.
Diu quaeritur quot ei sint, qui aliqua ratione Latino sermone utantur, vel quibus in orbis terrarum regionibus sermo maxime usurpetur, vel denique qui libri nostra aetate magis ad sermonis usum faciant. Hae quaestiones studium excitant non tantum eorum, qui in linguam Romanam incumbunt, verum etiam eorum qui generatim et universe litterarum atque linguarum et complurium ceterarum disciplinarum, quae ad artes humanitatis pertinent, sunt studiosi. Ad has…
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Added by Latinum Institute on July 20, 2009 at 4:42am —
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The way I see it, the Latinum project is a Language Revival Project, similar to that put together for Hawaiian, and other dead languages, such as the Miami language.
The project has specifically been modelled after successful aspects of these revival projects - including now children's literature on the http://tarheelreader.org site, the chatrooms on http://schola.ning.com , the visual vocabulary sites on the http://imaginumvocabularium.blogspot.com , news aggregation sites such as…
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Added by Latinum Institute on July 19, 2009 at 7:31am —
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The first 50 dialogues of Corderius' colloquia are now on
Latinum.
These have been formulated for students, so each line of dialogue is given alternately in Latin, then English, then again in Latin.
This lets the student listen, check their understanding immediately, then listen again to pick up new vocabulary/grammar.
100 dialogues will be recorded from this author, giving a useful…
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Added by Latinum Institute on July 18, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Added by Mark Cruthers on July 17, 2009 at 1:04pm —
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Conversing Helps Language Development More Than Reading Alone
ScienceDaily (June 29, 2009) — Adult-child conversations have a more significant impact on language development than exposing children to language through one-on-one reading alone, according to a new study in the July issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of
"Pediatricians and others have encouraged parents to provide language input through reading, storytelling and simple narration of daily events,"…
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Added by Latinum Institute on July 16, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Wayne State University in Detroit will be posting a one-year job in Classics for the coming academic year (09-10). This is a full-time position (with benefits) teaching 3 sections of classics-in-translation courses each semester.
Qualified candidates must have at least a M.A. in classics/classical archaeology and experience teaching courses in translation.
Until the official posting is available, interested persons can send a CV to the address that follows. When the…
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Added by Jennifer Sheridan Moss on July 15, 2009 at 10:31am —
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Things at the locutorium in Schola are picking up -
Saturday was out busiest day yet, with 21 participants dropping in to the locutorium to chat actively ( we have a lot of 'lurkers', but they don't figure in the stats unless they actively contribute)
The chatroom has an archive, which keeps records for a few months. On Saturday, over 1 000 lines of Latin were composed off the cuff…
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Added by Latinum Institute on July 13, 2009 at 6:02am —
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College graduates see the affects of the recession and are trying to tackle debt relief early on. Recent graduates know that high-paying jobs are few and competition for them is fierce. They are seeing their parents struggle, as a result of the economy and are trying to set themselves up for financial success as soon as possible.
The first step for college graduates is to get on a good budget. While high-paying jobs are not a certainty regardless of the type of degree a student has,…
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Added by BraydonG on July 13, 2009 at 3:26am —
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Those who have been using
Schola for a while, the site has had a bit of a make-over. It now looks much calmer, and the chat interface seems to be an integral part of the site, not an add-on.
It had become increasingly evident that the most oft used part of the site was the chatroom - on Sunday past, for example, the chatroom was busy continuously for a several hours....so the meebo chat interface has been moved to a more central…
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Added by Latinum Institute on July 6, 2009 at 6:21am —
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Latinum has been making me work hard - server trouble has meant a whole slew of episodes suddenly 'died' as the episode url's became unstuck.
I have had to delete a couple of hundred episodes, and am in the process of re-uploading..... Users are helping me, by notifying me of dead links - my priority is the Adler Course - most of which has now been repaired. I was hoping Latinum would just steam on, without too much maintenance needed.
Here is the map of site visitors for the last 2…
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Added by Latinum Institute on July 5, 2009 at 6:30am —
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In London, we are trying a new experiment - we have noticed members come along to the Circulus Latinus, but who don't have the skills to speak conversationally, but who are still very interested in Latin, as a 'performance language', for want of a better term.
We have decided to resurrect the ancient Collegium Poetarum online as an NING group, to seed something new. We will be holding our first meeting in London this…
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Added by Latinum Institute on July 3, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Ecco il brano ciceroniano tratto dal De Officiis I, 88-89.
(88) Nec vero audiendi qui graviter inimicis irascendum putabunt idque magnanimi et fortis viri esse censebunt; nihil enim laudabilius, nihil magno et praeclaro viro dignius placabilitate atque clementia. In liberis vero populis et in iuris aequabilitate exercenda etiam est facilitas et altitudo animi quae dicitur, ne si irascamur aut intempestive accedentibus aut impudenter rogantibus in morositatem inutilem et odiosam…
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Added by Andrea Del Ponte on July 1, 2009 at 12:02pm —
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Comunico con soddisfazione che anche quest'anno il mio fiuto di vecchio segugio ha seguito la traccia giusta. Solo per poco non ho azzannato la preda (cioè la versione assegnata ai maturandi del classico), ma ho mostrato dove trovarla... Ai circa 40 studenti presenti nei bei locali della "Passeggiata Librocaffè" di Fabio Caccia in piazza S.Croce a Genova, ho presentato e discusso un brano tratto da CICERONE, De officiis III, 21-23 ("Quali sono le basi della convivenza sociale"). L'indomani alla…
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Added by Andrea Del Ponte on July 1, 2009 at 11:40am —
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I presented a pre-Institute workshop at ACL last week on how to download, install, and use Skype, Audacity, WeGame, Second Life, and World of Warcraft (machinima projects and live interaction in Latin). I thought that others might benefit from the 60-page, illustrated handout, so I have attached it to this post in PDF format.
ACL2009.pdf Message me here or send email to areinhard@bolchazy.com if…
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on June 29, 2009 at 11:09am —
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Laura Gibbs recently made an observation about the strange way declensions are taught in Latin textbooks, and in classrooms.
It is far more intuitive, and in accord with the way declensions are taught in modern declined languages, to teach them by case.
I decided to experiment with this with one class - the result was highly satisfactory. The outcome of this is a method I have developed, I call 'teaching with the hand', or Grammatical TPRS. This was my Eureka moment - that…
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Added by Latinum Institute on June 29, 2009 at 4:30am —
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I was at an incredible presentation at the Game Education Summit this morning, by a professor of religion. She's working on a game to teach the Tibetan Book of the Dead in Second Life. I hadn't known what was possible in Second Life, and now I'm wondering who's working on teaching classics there: I'd love to move towards some kind of collaboration on some immersive learning.
Added by Roger Travis on June 17, 2009 at 12:29pm —
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Appassionato di lingua e letteratura greca e latina, nel 2006 mi sono avvicinato al Centrum Latinitatis Europae di Rainer Weissengruber, proponendogli di fondare un Punto CLE anche in Liguria. E’ nata così la delegazione "Cycnus", in ricordo del mitico re dei Liguri, trasformato da Zeus in cigno e poi assunto in cielo come costellazione. L’obiettivo è stato fin da subito quello di promuovere la cultura classica e umanistica mediante incontri, conferenze, letture che abbiano una ricaduta il più…
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Added by Andrea Del Ponte on June 15, 2009 at 10:45am —
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