Because of the holiday this week, we’re posting a little differently. There won’t be a Thursday resource, and today is a roundup of posts we’ve made on games in the classroom:
Review Battleship: http://www.canepress.org/2012/11/review-game-battleship/
Freerice.com: http://www.canepress.org/2012/10/thursday-resource-freerice-com/
The Latin Dictionary Game: http://www.canepress.org/2012/08/latin-dictionary-game/
Have a happy Thanksgiving!
A description (with pictures!) of the battle of Alesia: http://www.mikeanderson.biz/2012/11/caesar-against-vercingetorix-siege-of.html (via @Nihil_Novi_Net)
Mathematics texts in Latin (and Arabic and Sanskrit and other languages: http://www.wilbourhall.org (via @LacusCurtius)
More Latin in schools in Britain: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9683536/More-primary-schools-to-offer-Latin-and-ancient-Greek.html (via @miconm)
A brief piece about Heron of Alexander: http://hehasawifeyouknow.tumblr.com/post/35512895935/ikenbot-heron-of-alexandria-author-of-the (via @ancientblogger)
A new papal Latin academy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20280281(via @DHSBClassics)
A tool to find parallels in Latin texts: tesserae.caset.buffalo.edu/ (via @classicslibrary)
Hunger and Roman slaves: http://www.world-archaeology.com/news/roman-slaves/ (via @DrKillgrove)
An interesting site about Homer: http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/homer/ (via @http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/11/13/latin-makes-comeback-australia)
Latin is making a comeback in Australia: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/11/13/latin-makes-comeback-australia (via @history_geek)
Learning a language quickly: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/09/learn-language-in-three-months?CMP=twt_gu (via @Hadrianasblog)
Conference report on “Nutrition and Well-being in the Roman World:” http://www.poweredbyosteons.org/2012/11/nutrition-and-well-being-in-roman-world.html (via @DrKillgrove)
This week’s resource isn’t a website or an app like earlier ones have been: it’s a meeting.
The CANE Annual Meeting is a great opportunity to hear about developments in the Classical world, network, attend professional development workshops aimed at Latin teachers, buy books and classroom items, and just talk to other people who also teach Latin or Greek or Classics. The 2013 meeting will be 15-16 March at UConn. (Full details are here: http://caneweb.org/CANEwp/?page_id=255).
The deadline for proposals for papers or workshops is 1 December. You can submit them here: http://caneweb.org/CANEwp/?page_id=496
If financial constraints make you worried, there is the Finnegan-Plante scholarship to defray the costs of attending. Infrmation is available here: http://caneweb.org/CANEwp/?page_id=255.
What’s your favorite part about Annual Meeting?