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I'm in the process of revising my Latin website. You can see the progress at http://www.txclassics.org/drippinglatin.htm. I don't have all the pages done, and I just now changed the home page ever so slightly. I have in the header, like I do at the www.wheelockslatin.com website, a revolving list of Latin phrases that change every time the screen refreshes.
I thought I'd also add a sidebar of tips for studying Latin, reading Latin, etc. So now I need to compile a list. I had a "tips" page on my old website, but it was more lengthy in its description of things to do. Students need simple things. I confess I've gotten this idea in part from playing BRAIN AGE on my son's (now mine because of behavior--his not mine!) Nintendo DS. That is, on BRAIN AGE tips for stimulating the prefrontal cortex often appears after you finishing "training."
ANYWAY, websites can be very important. It is often the first thing that parents or other teachers see of you; it can be the first thing students see of you.
A good website has to be USEFUL. It has to be something that will attract students, and not just because of links to games or online worksheets that the student lost the first time you gave it to him/her. In fact, I have no interest in having my worksheets online. They shouldn't treat worksheets as something that can be lost because it can again be retrieved offline.
I need to find out about Latin chatrooms....I don't know enough about the vRoma moo stuff; time to figure it out, I guess. After all, this could satisfy, in some ways, that 5th C= Communities. Maybe it would be better to have something like a blog that others can log onto...like what eClassics has set up (that I have not yet signed up for). A discussion...
OH...I could have a web page for writing/revising stories in Latin! Think of it...one for each level of Latin. A voluntary composition page that would JUST BE FOR FUN! Rewriting endings of CLC stories would be fun, or writing other stories...
Extra credit COULD be given to those participating in the construction of new stories....
Ah, brainstorming here is always *good*.
I thought I'd also add a sidebar of tips for studying Latin, reading Latin, etc. So now I need to compile a list. I had a "tips" page on my old website, but it was more lengthy in its description of things to do. Students need simple things. I confess I've gotten this idea in part from playing BRAIN AGE on my son's (now mine because of behavior--his not mine!) Nintendo DS. That is, on BRAIN AGE tips for stimulating the prefrontal cortex often appears after you finishing "training."
ANYWAY, websites can be very important. It is often the first thing that parents or other teachers see of you; it can be the first thing students see of you.
A good website has to be USEFUL. It has to be something that will attract students, and not just because of links to games or online worksheets that the student lost the first time you gave it to him/her. In fact, I have no interest in having my worksheets online. They shouldn't treat worksheets as something that can be lost because it can again be retrieved offline.
I need to find out about Latin chatrooms....I don't know enough about the vRoma moo stuff; time to figure it out, I guess. After all, this could satisfy, in some ways, that 5th C= Communities. Maybe it would be better to have something like a blog that others can log onto...like what eClassics has set up (that I have not yet signed up for). A discussion...
OH...I could have a web page for writing/revising stories in Latin! Think of it...one for each level of Latin. A voluntary composition page that would JUST BE FOR FUN! Rewriting endings of CLC stories would be fun, or writing other stories...
Extra credit COULD be given to those participating in the construction of new stories....
Ah, brainstorming here is always *good*.
