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LeaAnn A. Osburn, Executive Editor |
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Dear Colleagues, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers values APA/AIA and always has a presence at their conferences. This past January, we sent four representatives to the 2009 conference, whose combined attendance stretches past fifty years (Lou alone has attended 30 of these, and I 15). Our son, Allan, enjoyed his first APA/AIA and had a chance to meet dozens of authors and teachers. Andrew Reinhard also attended to talk about eLearning products and meet with the APA’s Committee of Classics Librarians about the future of electronic publishing. We debuted three new books and a new series at this year’s conference. The Latin Readers Series premiered with our first title, A Lucan Reader: Selections from Civil War by Susanna Braund. Braund was on-hand for a formal book-signing. Series editor, Ronnie Ancona, was also there to talk about this exciting new line of intermediate/ advanced Latin readers written by some of the best Latinists in the field, including: William Anderson, John Henderson, Catherine Keane, Alison Keith, Mary Jaeger, Sarah Spence, Steven Rutledge, James May, Jeffrey Tatum, Dexter Hoyos, Josiah Osgood. Aesop’s Fables in Latin: Wit and Wisdom from the Animal Kingdom by Laura Gibbs also made a big splash, offering teachers of intermediate Latin a textbook with fun, quick readings that they can complete during class, assign as fun homework, or complete post-AP exam. The book is supported by podcasts for each fable, video slideshows, full-sized pictures from the Barlow edition of Aesop’s Fables in Latin, fable-of-the-day wiki, links to Aesop scholarship, and more. We invite you to review this book yourself and check out its online components at www.LatinViaFables.com. The third book to premier at APA/AIA was When in Rome: Best Comics from Pompeiiana Newsletter. This gift-book is excellent for graduating Latin students, and should bring back fond memories of Bernard Barcio’s beloved publication for teachers young and old. We will be publishing a companion volume of games and puzzles later this year. For those of you who attended the conference, we were very happy to see you there in Philadelphia. For those of you who couldn’t make it, we look forward to seeing you at another conference. If you find yourselves near our new offices in Mundelein, Illinois, please come by and say hello! Valete, Marie Bolchazy |
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eClassics Welcomes its 1000th Member! Donna Gerard of the Providence Christian School in Dallas, Texas, became the 1000th member of Bolchazy-Carducci Publisher’s eClassics website. eClassics (http://eclassics.ning.com) is a social network for teachers and students of Latin and Greek to exchange ideas about teaching and technology. It’s also a great place to watch class project videos from students, to catch up with colleagues, and ask questions of teachers who have been using things like podcasts and SMART Boards for years. To celebrate this milestone, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers awarded Gerard free copies of the Latin Aloud MP3 CD of Latin recordings by Robert Sonkowsky, the Cicero Digital Tutor: First Catilinarian Oration DVD, and a one-year subscription to the Latin grammar review website, Looking at Latin Online (http://lookingatlatin.com). We are thankful to Gerard and the hundreds of other educators out there whom are interested in bringing Latin and Greek into the 21st century. |
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Latin for the New Millennium Learn about Latin for the New Millennium, Levels One AND Two, on February 19, 6:00 EST. |
Ninging in the Latin Classroomby Bob Patrick, NBCT-Latin Under the extremely good guidance of Laura Gibbs, I decided over the winter holidays to set up a Ning for my AP Vergil Class and for my Latin 3-Honors class which is beginning a venture into Roman Comedy which will stretch into their Latin 4 year. I had heretofore used blogs with my upper level students in AP Latin Lit and Vergil to have students do their essay writing. Sometimes our blogging would be simultaneous so that students could see what they each were writing, and other times they were all held in moderation until all students had posted. I graded them according to AP essay rubrics and this became our way of practicing essay writing for the AP exam, examining literary and poetic themes while archiving all of that material on a common place on the Internet. So, why change to the Ning? The Ning combines elements of a website, a blog, a discussion group, a calendar, email, chat groups and social networking all in one easy-to-set-up place. Of supreme importance to me as an educator with students who are minors is Internet security. The Ning allows me to set up a completely private space, and our rules for behavior are the same as they are in the classroom: “If you wouldn’t do it or say it or write it in my classroom, then don’t do it on the Ning.” Students responded very enthusiastically to the Ning. I took them to a computer lab the first day back from the holidays and introduced them to it, got their email invitations out, and off we went. I have posted a copy of the syllabus to the Ning; I put reminders for assignments in the Events calendar; I have set up blogs for two students to blog each weekend on a theme of their choice in Vergil (we will do this later in Roman Comedy). Those two students get a major test grade for their AP style essay. The remainder of the class must make a comment on one of the blogs each week, and they receive a quiz grade for the comment. It has allowed me to organize our multivalent work in a way that I can manage from any location, and done away with paper usage almost completely. I’m happier. The students are happier. Mother Earth is happier. It’s a trifecta of happiness. I offer two technical observations. While my school system is becoming very anxious over social networking programs like Facebook and MySpace, they have not blocked Nings from our school site. However that could happen down the road. If they blocked my Nings, I’d ask to have them restored. In the past, with good justification, they have been willing to restore sites being used responsibly. Second, Nings are free because they come with ads. Once you set up your Ning, you can email the Ning folks and ask for an ad-free Ning as an educator. You must tell them, however, that you teach students in grades 7-12. The laws that govern use of the Internet with younger children apparently make the Ning folks unwilling or unable to accommodate elementary ed programs, even ad-free, but they will remove the ads from your Ning set up for secondary ed use. [Editor’s Note: You can create your own free Ning by visiting http://ning.com. The site walks you through the creation process step-by-step. You need not be a programmer or graphic designer to create a classroom Ning.] |
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Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers invites its eLitterae subscribers to take advantage of a 50%, single-copy discount on any/all of the following new titles for January: The first title in the BC Latin Readers Series, A Lucan Reader: Selections from Civil War Betray the Night: A Novel About Ovid by Benita Kane Jaro When in Rome: Best Cartoons from Pompeiiana Newsletter One copy, prepaid, no returns, not available to distributors. Offer expires 02/28/09. Make sure you mention that you are an eLitterae subscriber when you place your order. If you place your order via the Bolchazy-Carducci web site at www.BOLCHAZY.com, during checkout please enter "No. 61" (withouth the quotation marks) in the Comments field. Your discount will be verified and applied after your order is placed. Monthly Specials are available on our website, check our "Special Offers" link. |
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Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has a few new sites for you to explore that are dedicated to a new series, a new book, and a new way to get news about what’s new with us! The new Latin Readers Series, edited by Ronnie Ancona, now has an online home where you can learn more about the books, authors, and more: http://bolchazy.com/readers Author Laura Gibbs has created a Ning social network loaded with multimedia goodies and extra content in support of her new book, Aesop’s Fables in Latin: Wit and Wisdom from the Animal Kingdom. Please check it out at: http://aesopus.ning.com Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers now has a home on Facebook. If you are a member of the world’s largest, most popular social networking site (it’s free to join at http://facebook.com, but be warned as it is quite addictive), please join our group by clicking: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=41992942730. Interact with staff and authors, submit ideas for books and eLearning material, leave us a note, browse our photo galleries, and more! We look forward to seeing you. |
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