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This compilation depends on YOU, the reader, for its success. Read the suggestions and experiences that other teachers have contributed, and then make a suggestion of your own.
New suggestions will be added at the top, to make them more visible. Each entry will be date-stamped with the date on which it was added to this list.
Each suggestion will include information about the site or material and how it was useful as well as simple contact information about the person who made the suggestion (if the contributor choses to provide it), in case you'd like to know more. Let's profit from each other's experience!
Ray Starr
Department of Classical Studies, Wellesley College
CANE Classical Computing and CANE Webmaster
rstarr@wellesley.edu
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"Roman Historical Mythology" Course Info and Syllabus
9/25/2001
http://www.wellesley.edu/ClassicalStudies/Latin310/Latin310home.html
To prime the pump for the new year, here's the link for the homepage for my new Latin course on Roman Historical Mythology. Linked off the homepage are course information and the syllabus. (The "Students" link can't be accessed, for reasons of confidentiality.) During the term, the students use a variety of web sites that may be useful to others as well.
Ray Starr
Classical Studies/Wellesley College
rstarr@wellesley.edu
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Alison Barker's Ancient Greek with Thrasymachus
4/10/2001
Ancient Greek with Thrasymachus
http://www.vroma.org/~abarker/thrascontents.html
I use these lessons to provide information and exercises for the text Thrasymachus, which I use for first year Greek. The text itself provides an excellent graduated reading through which to learn Greek, but lacks information and exercises sufficient for today's students. While I have developed these pages in conjunction with a particular text, users of other texts may find them useful for practice and review.
Alison W. Barker
St. Paul's School
abarker@sps.edu
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Ruth Breindel's PowerPoint Presentation
4/2/2001
Ruth Breindel of the Moses Brown School in Providence (rbreindel@yahoo.com) did a wonderful presentation at the CANE Annual Meeting on how to use PowerPoint as a teaching tool, especially for interactive, visually interesting learning of such things as translation and Latin syntax. Ruth has graciously agreed to make her PowerPoint files available via the CANE web site. Click here to download the files, which take the form of a folder that has been compressed. If all goes well, you'll be downloading a file named RuthBreindelPowerPoint.sit. Then open that folder to decompress it automatically (assuming you have StuffIt Expander on your computer, which you probably do, whether you know it or not). Then open the individual files with PowerPoint, which you have to have in order to view the files. PowerPoint is a part of Microsoft Office.
Ray Starr, CANE Webmaster, rstarr@wellesley.edu
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"LATINTEACH: Where Latin Teachers Meet in Cyberspace"
9/13/2000
Sharon Kazmierski, latinteach@talk21.com
Webmanager: Latinteach Website
Listmanager, Latinteach and Latin Email Discussion Forums
Sharon Kazmierski comments on Latinteach:
"The Latinteach list is a free resource for Latin teachers. Included on this site are lesson plans, teaching ideas, book reviews, and annotated weblinks for Latin and Classics teachers.
"The Latinteach Website is also the home of the Latinteach email discussion list. Over 300 teachers in North America and worldwide participate on this free discussion list and share teaching ideas. Information on how to join this list is available on the site. Archives of past discussions may also be viewed on the Latinteach site."
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Listen to Vergil, Catullus, Cicero, and Homer on-line
8/23/2000
Ray Starr, Classical Studies, Wellesley College, rstarr@wellesley.edu
Through the Mantovano listserv on Vergil, I just heard of a web site at
Harvard University with online audio files of various faculty members
reading in the original languages from such texts as the Aeneid, Catullus,
Cicero, and Homer. To explore, go to:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/poetry_and_prose/poetry.html
To find out more about the Mantovano listserv, go to:
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The "On-line Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics"
http://www.drjclassics.com/
Ray Starr, Classical Studies, Wellesley College, rstarr@wellesley.edu
Janice Siegel (also known as Dr. J) of Temple University has just performed an enormous service to our profession. After compiling the A-V Survey for Classical World (Volume 93.4, March-April 2000, pp 367-441), she put an expanded and enhanced version on-line, complete with live links to distributors' web sites. Her own description from her site says it all better than I could, so I'll quote:
"Looking for a video on Pompeii? An interactive cd-rom game set in ancient Rome or Greece? Slides of Crete, Delphi, or Roman Britain? Scholarly databases on cd-rom? A performance of an Aristophanes play in English or a Plautus play in Latin? Video and audio lectures by Classics scholars on everything from Plato to the Aeneid to the Fall of the Roman Empire? Comic strips in Latin? Archaeology kits? Posters of the gods to decorate your classroom? Latin and Greek lessons on tape or disk? Maps, books on tape, and yes, even filmstrips? Coloring books, jigsaw puzzles, transparencies and activity books for our littlest Classics aficionados? T-shirts, buttons, notecards, coffee cups with Latin phrases? Museum reproductions of ancient art?
"You have come to the right place!
"The new "On-line Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics" is provided as a service to teachers and students of Classics everywhere! Find the item you want and with a click of a mouse arrive at the distributor's on-line catalog page, where you can often preview it, hear it, see screenshots of it, read reviews of it, and order it right on-line!"
I'll add a word here about something that may concern some CANE members: is this a commercial site? I wanted to make sure about the answer to that question, so I emailed Professor Siegel, who responded in detail. It is possible for commercial publishers to buy simple advertising on the site, but Professor Siegel's goal in having advertising is to try to recover the substantial cost of putting the site together, a cost she bore out of her own pocket, not to generate income. She donates some of the proceeds directly to the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, and she includes all products, whether the distributor advertises or not. You'll notice that CANE Instructional Materials are listed, and I've emailed Donna Lyons, who runs CANE's wonderful Emporium Romanum, about having all the Emporium's products listed, too. |
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Free fonts for Latin, complete with macrons, 7/28/00
Ray Starr, Classical Studies, Wellesley College, rstarr@wellesley.edu
The Classical Association of the Empire State (CAES) has developed a free font, for both Windows and Macintosh, with macrons and other marks useful for Latin. To get the fonts, go to the web site for CAES at http://web.syr.edu/~dhmills/caes/ and follow the link on the left for "CL Fonts Project." On the fonts page you'll find complete instructions. I've found the font useful for making up handouts more elegant than word-processed text coupled with hand-written macrons. It will also handle common epigraphical symbols. |
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Priming the Electronic Pump: 3/23/00
Ray Starr
Department of Classical Studies, Wellesley College
rstarr@wellesley.edu
I'll start us off, with selections from the electronic handout from a workshop on high technology and teaching I gave at the CANE Annual Meeting and the Maine Classical Association in the spring of 1999 (i.e., it's radically out of date but may still be useful). Much of the information below was published in The New England Classical Journal under the title "Teaching Classics with the World Wide Web" (26.5, August, 1999), but live links may be handy. All the items I'll list here were extremely helpful to me as I planned a new course called "Uncovering the Ancient World: An Introduction to Ancient Greece and Rome," which I teach every year at Wellesley College.
Looking at others' syllabi and Using search engines
Electronic Latin texts
Helpful (or amusing) tools to use with texts
Electronic texts in translation
Maps
Images
Web sites as guest lecturers
How do we know what we know?
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