I am pleased to announce the second annual Terence Awards. These cash awards and prizes will be given to those junior high, high school, and university students whose videos convey Classics in a way that is informative, entertaining, or both. Please read on for details:
Prizes
Cash prizes and free books will be awarded to the winning filmmaker or team in the following categories:
1 Best Picture, Junior Prize (junior high, high school, or homeschool student(s) ages 11–18 at the time the film w…
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The Texas Classical Association (TCA) annual meeting was held at the AT&T Conference Center on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin on October 23-24, 2009. With over 90 delegates, it was the best-attended TCA in the history of the organization, and featured one presentation on the 23rd and eleven on the 24th. Read the full program
here. Three presentations dealt specifically with classroom technologies for Classics, and one…
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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
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on June 29, 2009 at 11:09am —
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Omnes,
Starting in June, Latin teachers teach Latin teachers online in Bolchazy-Carducci Publisher's second annual, weekly series of online seminars. We have some exciting new sessions this year on Vergil, Catullus, Cicero, etymology, Roman culture, and Latin 2.0, not to mention two sessions from Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg including a Virtual Conventiculum! Returning favorites Rose Williams and Anna Andresian will reprise their popular sessions from 2008.
Whether you’re a new Latin tea…
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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 sponsors and to our student and…
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on March 9, 2009 at 12:27pm —
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Here is the first file, uploaded here for your convenience.
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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.…
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on March 3, 2009 at 5:44pm —
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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
Latinblogg),…
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eClassics Demographic Study
Prepared by Andrew Reinhard
January 29, 2009
SUMMARY
eClassics was joined by its 1,000th member on January 28, 2009. As founder and site administrator, I wanted to break down the numbers regarding the site’s membership according to age, geography, teaching experience, and the like, to take a snapshot of Classics pedagogy in the Digital Age.
COUNTRIES: 38
Argentina, 3
Australia, 11
Austria, 1
Barbados, 1
Belgium, 1
Brazil, 7
Bulgaria, 2
Canada, 3
Colombia, 1
Egypt,…
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on January 29, 2009 at 1:06pm —
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Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is pleased to announce the official launch of its new, Latin grammar review website,
Looking at Latin Online.
Based on Anna Andresian's visual Latin grammar primer,
Looking at Latin, the website contains 5,717 Andresian-authored questions on all aspects of Latin grammar, edited by LeaAnn Osburn and Don Sprague, and "adapted for the screen" by Andrew Re…
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on December 18, 2008 at 10:37am —
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I am posting this note that was sent to the Illinois Classics list yesterday on behalf of Dave Johnson, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale:
As many of you closer to Chicagoland than I here in deepest Southern Illinois have no doubt already heard, the Classics program at UIC is under threat:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/1329932,CST-NWS-classics14.article
We all should pitch in to fight this.…
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eClassics is pleased to announce the first annual Terence Awards. These cash awards will be given to those junior high or high school students whose videos convey Classics in a way that is informative, entertaining, or both. Please read on for details:
Prizes: Cash prizes will be awarded for the categories of Best Picture ($100) and Best Use of Latin in a Film ($250). Winners will also have their videos featured on the eClassics main page for one month, and will also receive a plaque and a free…
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on December 6, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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The chaired debate was the first thing on the agenda this morning. Roo, Ted, Bill, and Claudia were all on the panel, all of whom I had met the previous day. Delegates to the conference had been asked to submit questions to the panel in advance, and my question was one of ten selected to be asked. You can watch me ask the question and hear the answer via the recorded video webcast here:
http://stadi…
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on November 24, 2008 at 9:14pm —
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The opening plenary speech was given by Dr. Ted Castranova of Indiana University who specializes in the economics of massively multiplayer on-line role-playing games (MMORPGs) like he was introduced by an Open University administrator who spoke briefly of the challenges facing school administrations as new educational technologies come into more common use, specifically with the agenda of learning via playing.
She said that crafting revised policy, management, budget, and strategy for online ga…
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on November 24, 2008 at 3:30pm —
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I had the good fortune to be in Milton Keynes in time to attend the pre-conference reception for delegates of the ReLIVE08 Conference (Researching Learning in Virtual Environments). I managed to speak to a few people who all had the same reaction once I told them what I was doing with Latin and virtual environments like Second Life and World of Warcraft: "Latin? Spoken Latin? And there's a publisher just for that?" I told them a bit more about my work for Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, and everyo…
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on November 20, 2008 at 3:45am —
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I will be leading a workshop in how to use Second Life as a practical pedagogical tool for practicing oral Latin. The workshop will include instruction on how to install and activate real-time audio fro Second Life, how to chat, how to record machinima, and will culminate in a real-time, in-world demonstration of conversational Latin within this virtual environment.
This workshop is part of the Re:LIVE '08 conference being held at the Open University in Milton Keynes, England, of which you can…
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on November 3, 2008 at 12:21pm —
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With the launch of
Latin for the New Millennium in support of 1st- and 2nd-year Classical Latin studies, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is interested in doing either a textbook or online course for students interested in Medieval and/or Vulgate Latin. After speaking with hundreds of Medievalists at
Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo over the past few years, I have learned that Medieval Studies graduate s…
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Added by Andrew Reinhard on November 3, 2008 at 10:43am —
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