Bob Patrick, in a private email thread among the Latinists about sharing video, or not, with the Latin Best Practices (LBP) online group, memorably said: When Latinteach was the main/only venue for Latin teachers, I often would share what I was trying and urging others to try there. I never shared a video of me […]
A nice simple script from James. Note that James leaves the variables blank whereas other script authors like Jim and Anne put in underlined names. It doesn’t matter. The Errand wants (something) in order to find goes/comes back returns _ wants a _. _ says to _, “I want _. Find _ for me. After you
In response to Angie’s question about my comment yesterday that CI can’t work in classes, I had written: The fact is CI can’t work in classrooms as per Robert’s explanation but we are going to make it work anyway. It’s like the WWI fighters in the trenches knowing that they had a small chance of
Good news from David Maust. I have been fortunate enough to have been instructed in Latin by David and I have always like to use the term real deal when I see a real CI teacher in action. So yeah, David is to be congratulated for this award because he is the real deal. Here is his
Margie in West Virginia has a question for the group and together we should be able to cobble together in the comment fields here a lot of stuff she can use: Ben, I’m hoping that the PLC can help me with something: I have been asked by the WVDE to help develop an online professional
One of our group members has a couple of questions and I always like to include the group in such discussions. Please chime in: Hey Ben, I have a couple of questions that might be completely stupid, however. They have just come up during my attempts at using TPRS. 1. When choosing structures, is there
Charlotte (Canada) has a question: Hi Ben, I have a technology question for the group. Our school just bought a class set of Blackberry Playbooks. (not impressed) I would like to buy one ipad for my class to use as a document camera. I have to justify this expenditure and I was looking for more
I want to keep the Latin discussion front and center. I am beginning to see that there is some unique stuff going on right now. Churning beneath the waters. In a small part of the ocean. That few have noticed yet. But will. There are about seven vocal Classicists in our group and they are impacting how people view and relate to
Trying to cut through all the crap and get to the core of this stuff and share it is my mission. It’s what we are doing here, and very well, I might add. But doing this work is so hard, and getting distracted by bullshit happens a lot. Whenever I get distracted or confused, I
This article was in the queue to be published in 2016. Why? Who knows? The queue is crowded, for sure. Anyway, here it is. I think I didn’t want to publish it bc I was unsure about the content, but in the light of the recent discussion generated by James, I’ll just publish it here
Most people already do this but just to say it anyway. When I do pop-up grammar in R & D or in Reading Option A, if it’s a verb, referring to the ending of the verb, I ask the class: What does (ending on the verb) mean? When they respond with the corresponding subject pronoun,
Here is a nice field report from a newer member of the group, Mike Rooney: I wanted to tell you about an awesome and validating moment I had last week in my Spanish 4 class. We have been working on our first full story together, based on Bryce’s suggestion for how to introduce the subjunctive
