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Latinum Institute's Blog – May 2009 Archive (3)

Schola at 999

The number of members on Schola has now reached the magic 999.
Who will be the thousandth member to sign up?
Since coming online in February 2008, Schola has grown rapidly, with a very international membership. Schola is the main hub to join, if you are looking for people to write to in Latin, or just want to hang out in a cool Latin place online.

Added by Latinum Institute on May 27, 2009 at 6:41am — No Comments

Tar Heel Reader

Here is the current list of books that have been made in the past week or so:

Everyone is encouraged to have a go at writing at least ONE book. The idea is to copy the format of children's beginning literacy books in general. They can be very simple and repetitive, following a simple formula - kids love this stuff.

We don't have many books like this for Latin, and we need them desperately.

I used Laura Gibb's De Leone very successfully on the interactive whiteboard at… Continue

Added by Latinum Institute on May 15, 2009 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

Latinum - one year of Stats

Latinum has now been online for over two years. I started collecting visitor statistics exactly one year ago. 62 000 unique visitors have viewed the site in the past 12 months, resulting in the map you see below: Downloads average 260 000 episodes per month. Total episode downloads since the site went online: 4,106,446