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Wonderful Penny! I really enjoyed it. It is a fine contribution to mark the first year of Tar Heel Reader.
Email me and I'll send you the code.
Thanks David. And thanks for your contributions to Tar Heel Reader.
Thanks for the cool promotion of Tar Heel Reader. I look forward to seeing the winners on the site.
I'm a bit worried about including your ID and login here for any bad spammer to find. My recurring nightmare is waking up to find some bad guys ha...
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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- I'm a professor of computer science at UNC Chapel Hill.
- About Me:
- I'm excited about using computers to enable people with disabilities.
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- http://www.cs.unc.edu/~gb/
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- At 11:23am on May 26, 2009,
Laura Gibbs said…
- Hi Gary, I wondered about that - it was hard to find pictures of Venus without any bare breasts!
I had a lion catching a zebra in an earlier one, too - I'll go add a caution flag for that also.
I am glad you liked the story - it is one of my favorites! Later today I am going to do the story of the mouse who married a lion, also with unhappy consequences.
Having the chance to do the materials in Latin and English is AWESOME - it takes me just a couple of minutes to do the English. I speak Italian pretty well, too, and also Polish - I might try doing the fables in some of those languages too.
As you can guess, I am a hard-core fan of Aesop's fables! I've got about 1000 different fables (about 600 unique ancient ones, plus hundreds of medieval and Renaissance originals)... so I'm not going to run out of fables any time soon. :-)
- At 4:57pm on May 22, 2009,
Laura Gibbs said…
- Hi Gary, thanks so much for getting Latin on the list of languages. That is so cool! And listen, one of the Latin teachers on the LatinBestPractices listserv, a really great guy, shared this comment today, which I wanted to pass on to you! I've shared the Tar Heel link with my department, and a Spanish teacher has just created her first story. She's giddy with delight. It's like getting a gift or something.
- At 7:50am on May 20, 2009,
Evan Millner said…
- Gary,
I just wanted to reiterate what Laura has said - thanks. The Tar Heel Site is amazing - and proof of its brilliance, is that fusty, stick in the mud, hard to convince, 'new- is- a -rude- word' Classics teachers are colonising the site. In just on 2 weeks, over 30 books in Latin have been written....and from what I hear, more are in the pipeline.
As Laura has testified, this kind of reaction from the classics teaching fraternity to digital initiatives, is exceptional - usually we are flogging a dead horse. Tar Heel is quick, in all senses of the word.
Looking forward with anticipation to the creative explosion that is about to be unleashed, thanks to your wonderful software.
- At 11:47am on May 17, 2009,
Laura Gibbs said…
- Gary, I just wanted to thank you again for the AMAZING TarheelReader tool. I've made several little books now, and my colleague Evan Miller (who runs an all-Latin Ning at http://schola.ning.com) has been creating lots of little books, too. The response from the Latin teachers on the various Latin teacher listserves has been super positive! As schools start to finish up and summer begins for the high school teachers, I hope that many of them will create some readers of their own, too!
Here's my latest - an Aesop's fable :-)
http://tarheelreader.org/2009/05/16/auceps-palumbes-anguis/
- At 7:10pm on May 8, 2009,
Laura Gibbs said…
- It was SO EASY and SO FUN to make that book!!!
I shared it with the three main Latin teacher list serves - I asked people to contact me if they were interested in creating books, but some folks may contact you directly to create their own accounts.
You cannot believe what a blessing this is for those of us who want to teach Latin AS LATIN, and not just as "encoded English" - we are a small bunch, but very dedicated, and very much in need of a platform like this to share and develop materials.
By the way, I love the feature that lets me grab an existing book and translate it. My next plan is to do the Latin version of "We Like Dogs"! :-)
- At 8:09am on May 8, 2009,
Connie Weber said…
- You are so very welcome to Fireside, Gary! Thank you for joining the community. We look forward to hearing a whole lot from you.
- At 8:19pm on May 7, 2009,
Laura Gibbs said…
- FABULOUS. A friend of mine and I were planning on building a "Latin Zoo" this summer and we had just started speculating about the best platform for doing this, and what you have here is perfect.
To be honest, the debates about pronunciation in Latin are so fractious (absurdly so, given that it is a dead language), it's better not even to have the audio. Latin teachers are an odd bunch, and it's better not to provoke them about pronunciation, as I have learned from painful personal experience, ha ha.
I cannot believe what great timing this in - tomorrow is my last day of school and I will be spending all summer doing Latin stuff. What serendipity!!!! More soon. :-)
- At 7:51pm on May 7, 2009,
Laura Gibbs said…
- Argh, I always forget to make the links clickable in this editor - here it is again: http://bestlatin.blogspot.com :-)
- At 7:50pm on May 7, 2009,
Laura Gibbs said…
- OH MY GOSH, Gary - this is exciting! I saw "Tar Heel" here on the profile and had to see who you were (I live up in Timberlake, just north of Durham, near Roxboro) - anyway, your online books are fabulous!!! I am so impressed: this is one of the most creative applications of WordPress that I have seen.
I teach college composition courses (all storytelling based!), but my hobby is Latin, in particular Aesop's fables in Latin (my Latin blog: http://bestlatin.blogspot.com). I saw how to create books there at the Tar Heel Reader, and I would like to create some Latin books - that would be an amazing contribution to the Latin teaching scene, since students are desperately in need of simple, illustrated books.
I am hoping that Latin books would be acceptable too, in addition to the living languages you have represented...? There's a movement afoot, admittedly a minority movement, to teach Latin like other living foreign languages, and this looks like an ideal platform to create and share materials. The The Beginning Literacy Framework is EXACTLY the kind of thing we are trying to promote with Latin, which unfortunately has been geared traditionally to giving students texts that are too hard, too soon, without any development framework at all.
- At 6:15pm on May 7, 2009,
Kevin said… - Welcome to Fireside Learning!
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