Streetmap Grammar - eLatin eGreek eLearn2024-03-29T15:24:50Zhttps://eclassics.ning.com/forum/topics/727885:Topic:11809?commentId=727885%3AComment%3A11845&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSure- I'm working on superimp…tag:eclassics.ning.com,2007-12-03:727885:Comment:118482007-12-03T22:51:04.438ZHarry Hancockhttps://eclassics.ning.com/profile/HarryHancock
Sure- I'm working on superimposing a google map onto a grammar table now. I'll let you know how it turns out.
Sure- I'm working on superimposing a google map onto a grammar table now. I'll let you know how it turns out. This is REALLY cool. What I'd…tag:eclassics.ning.com,2007-12-03:727885:Comment:118452007-12-03T22:39:52.237ZAndrew Reinhardhttps://eclassics.ning.com/profile/amasis
This is REALLY cool. What I'd love to see is a graphical, interactive on-line representation of Latin cartography. Perhaps we can work on this together once your students have mapped the city.
This is REALLY cool. What I'd love to see is a graphical, interactive on-line representation of Latin cartography. Perhaps we can work on this together once your students have mapped the city. that sounds super! I love met…tag:eclassics.ning.com,2007-12-03:727885:Comment:118262007-12-03T18:33:36.389ZLaura Gibbshttps://eclassics.ning.com/profile/lauragibbs
that sounds super! I love metaphors like that!<br />
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I used to use something called "Planet Perfect" and "Planet Imperfect" to convey the idea of aorist (perfect) past and imperfective past... on the Planet Perfect, all their pictures are snapshots, in frames, that show something that happened. On Planet Imperfect, they have everything running as videos instead. The idea of saying "are we on planet perfect? or planet imperfect?" helped students see these different aspects as different REALMS, rather…
that sounds super! I love metaphors like that!<br />
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I used to use something called "Planet Perfect" and "Planet Imperfect" to convey the idea of aorist (perfect) past and imperfective past... on the Planet Perfect, all their pictures are snapshots, in frames, that show something that happened. On Planet Imperfect, they have everything running as videos instead. The idea of saying "are we on planet perfect? or planet imperfect?" helped students see these different aspects as different REALMS, rather than simply as different English translation formulas. When you live on Planet Perfect you just "see" things differently than you see them on Planet Imperfect. You might say "they walked" in English on either planet - but "they walked" would look one way in a picture frame on Planet Perfect and a different way in a video screen on Planet Imperfect.<br />
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:-)