Salvete Omnes, This is my second year teaching middle school Latin. I previously taught at a large public high school, and I have quickly learned that the...
Hi Rachel, and thanks for the opportunity to collaborate in this new forum! I'm not currently teaching Latin, but I've taught Latin at the college level in the...
Hi, I'm Cornelia (Coreen) and currently teach one class of Latin at the middle school level (in addition to PK-grade 8 French) at a small private school. I...
Salvete Omnes, I'm teaching 6.7 and 8 at a Catholic School. We only meet 2 times a week, so having students maintain alot of vocabulary fro class to class is...
Oral Latin has become a large part of my classes, mostly via TPRS, though I'm slowly--so slowly!--working toward my goal of my class being 90% in Latin. I'd...
What I am thinking about doing to start is to play with animals. Have students draw animals, or even make them out of construction paper pieces--we could also...
Laura, as our tech guru, I would love really specific suggestions for involving ning or other such things in my Latin class. I tried before, even started a...
Rachel, I love this challenge of finding fables that involve physical motion, body parts, act-out-ability. I've classified the fables in all kinds of ways, but...
Oh maybe better this way...? (slide with one lion in image) Leo. Unus Leo est. [insert picture here] Video Leonem! Video unum Leonem! (slide with more than one...
This is a huge topic - and I've been teaching 100% online courses for something like seven years now, so I've got lots to say about it... although just how...
Laura,  I like that a lot! I think playing with the endings early in that way is a great start. And if this is available online, it'll let them practice...
I'm not teaching Latin now as you know (eheu!), but I would have students do composition at the Ning and read each other's compositions. Right now, I am doing...
Super - I will play around with this over the weekend! I am such a big fan of Google Slideshows now - this will be a very fun new experiment. I will see if I...
I teach 6th-8th grade Latin (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced) in a K-12 school. My graduates go into Latin 3 in 9th grade, so it's a fairly rigorous...
I am loving this etclassics site already! Thanks so much for explaining all of the web, blog and ning lingo! So I could just create a ning for my class of...
Hi Cornelia, Ning.com is the site where you start, and as an educator you can get an ad-free version - Bob Patrick (see below) has details about how that...
Hi all! I'm a homeschooling mom with three at home - 7th, 9th, and 11th grades. Only my youngest qualifies as a midschooler - but I'm always looking for ideas...
Laura, Thanks for the link on 'ninging' in the Latin classroom. My students are middleschoolers; all under 13. I guess I need to read the fine print and find...
I just successfully created a ning! On www.ning.com it stated that it can be used without any problems with students in grades 7-12; any middle school starts...
A good place to look for information about COPPA is the http://classroom20.ning.com might be a good place to look - there are a lot of elementary and middle...
Salvete! I teach 8th, 9th, and 10th grade Latin at a classical school in Maryland, where all students take Latin in some form from the 3rd grade on. The ...
This is my first year teaching Latin too, and I'm coming from an ESL teaching background. I always liked having a culminating project. Any ideas. We've done a...
Hello, I have been wanting to add projects to my classes for quite a while but am at a loss. Would you please post or email me off list about your family tree...
I do several types of projects over the year for early Latin. I teach at a private school, so we do a toga project, because I can ask kids to buy materials...
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I play an adapted version of Clue when we're doing the Roman house; I have a transparency of a typical Roman house that we use as a game board and I made cards...
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Salvete - I teach 6th through 8th grade Latin (using CLC) at a small private school in the Northeast. I have been intending to post to ask if anyone would like...
