TEACHING ANCIENT CIV
•
Introduction to the AV Resources for
Classics website
• Using Photographs
• Using Animation
• Using VRML
• Using 3D Reconstruction

Using Photographs
•
Maecenas
• Dr. J’s Illustrated Guide to the Classical
World
– Dr. J’s site linked by Wellesley
– Links to Dr. J’s site

Visits to Dr. J’s website 9/27-2/18

THE ON-LINE,
HYPERLINKED SYLLABUS
• Diotima’s resources
• Dr. J’s syllabus

Animated Sequences
•
Painting and Firing a Black-figure vase
•
Painting and Firing a Red-figure vase
•
Theater masks

VRML Sites
• http://www.stoa.org/metis/
•
Realitalis Virtualis
•
Prima Porta

3D Reconstructions
•
Theater of Dionysus (didaskalia)
•
Theater of Epidavros (commercial site)
•
Knossos (the British School)
•
Isthmia (Ohio State)
•
Paestum (from France)
•
Rome (from Japan)

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES for teaching culture/civ
• on-line culture quizzes

on-line culture quizzes
•
Ostia
•
The Olympics
•
Mythology

INTERACTIVE GAMES for teaching culture/civ
•
Navigate Pompeii
•
The Antigone Game
•
The Medea Game
•
Empire of Rome game
•
Wak-a-Gladiator (for children)

Dates and numbers…
•
Date conversion program

VROMA
The VRoma project is a collaboration between small undergraduate colleges and secondary schools to improve and expand the teaching of Latin and
Roman culture through the creative use of technology.
• Purpose: the creation of a virtual forum (VRoma) through MOO (Multi-User Dimension, Object
Oriented), the real-time, text-based environment by which students and instructors interact live, conduct courses and lectures, and share resources for the study of the ancient Roman world
• Synthesizes linguistic and cultural info

Scavenger Hunts (and webquests)
•
From VROMA
• From VROMA
• From Romans in…

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES for teaching grammar/language
• Games
• Conjugation programs
• Self-correcting drills

GAMES
•
Latin games on Quia
•
Latin hangman

Conjugation programs
• http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~p3481184/ greekg/grammars.htm#Kalosconjugator (for
Greek)
• http://www.angelfire.com/pa/mmclar/Latin.
html (danger!!!!)

SELF-CORRECTING DRILLS
• http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/vocab1-
4.html
(NOUNS)
• http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/amo.html
(VERBS)
• http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/adjnounquiz.
html (ADJS)
•
Margaret Phillips
•
Paul Barrett
• Dr. J’s Latin at ISU site

LATIN PEDAGOGY SITES
• Text/Grammar
• Audio
• Flash Movies

Text/Grammar combo WITH
HYPERLINKED TEXT
• List of texts available in Greek (Perseus)
• Aeschylus’ Agamemnon in Greek
•
Cross-references in Smyth’s grammar
•
Cross-references with commentaries
• Morphological information about given words
•
Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome

AUDIO
•
Harvard Classics Prose and Poetry Recital
Page
•
Reading Latin Poetry (Andrew Wilson)
•
News in Latin (from Finland)
•
Pronunciation of Ancient Greek
•
Greek lyric sung
• Virgil’s
Aeneid Book IV

FLASH MOVIES
By Claude Pavur, St. Louis University: http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/c lassical/latin/tchmat/rud.html