In the Language Classroom
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DocuCams
A Document Camera (or DocuCam) is quite simply a camera that displays whatever it sees on the projector screen. As far as I’m concerned, it is the single most valuable tool in the language classroom. By projecting the text under examination using a DocuCam, you and your students can always be on the same page—or…
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Assignments
Text coming soon. Low-Stakes Quizzing in Canvas: https://canvas.yale.edu/spotlight/low-stakes-quizzing-canvas Voicethread
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The Zoom Classroom
There is nothing ingenious in what I write here. My objective was to replicate my normal classroom, not to use tech for the sake of using tech, and it all worked out fine, at least for the language classroom. To summarize Communications for pedagogy, there are three things to attend to at any given moment:…
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Office/Student Hours
Office Hours are dedicated times you are available to students to talk about relevant academic questions about your course or the discipline/profession. You are not a qualified psychiatrist and should not pretend to be one. Students—especially incoming Freshman—do not know what Office Hours are. We have started to call them “Student Hours” to welcome students to them, but even…
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Fixing the Lexicon
As I see it, there are three big problems with the correspondences we make between the target language (Ancient Greek or Latin) and English. (1) English definitions are so out-of-date or obscure that students need to look up the English in order to understand the definition. Perhaps there was a time when immo vero could…
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Pronunciation
Teaching Pronunciation It is important that we teach our students the “correct” classical pronunciation of Greek and Latin. I say “correct” because the way we learn to pronounce Greek and Latin isn’t in fact correct (e.g. we don’t nasalize Latin con- or -am/-um/-em; native English speakers normally can’t distinguish between aspirated and un-aspirated voiceless dental…
Classics Teaching 