ANNOUNCEMENTS

New procedures for Certification

Thanks to Keith Toda, GCA President, for compiling this information.

OBTAINING A GA PROVISIONAL TEACHING CERTIFICATE IN LATIN in pdf format

CONVERTING FROM A GA NON-RENEWABLE CERTIFICATE TO A FULL, CLEAR RENEWABLE CERTIFICATE IN LATIN in pdf format

You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to download these files in pdf format. For a free download, click here.

Congratulations!

GCA has made the following awards for 2004:

Student of the Year: Lauren McLeod, Walton High School (Cobb County)

Teacher of the Year: Alan Farnsworth, Walton High School (Cobb County)

GCA Scholarship: Jaime Claymore, Westover High School, Albany (Dougherty County), for coursework towards a Ph.D. in Latin from the University of Florida.

GCA also instituted a new award in honor of our 25th anniversary; GCA will make this award on an occasional basis, to honor outstanding service to GCA and to Classics in the state. The first recipient of the GCA Founder's Award is the founder of GCA, Rick LaFleur of the University of Georgia.

Announcement of New Teacher Resource in Classics

The On-Line Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics, a comprehensive list of all non-print resources available from over 100 distributors, is now presented as a service to the Classics teaching community, accessible at http://www.drjclassics.com.

Topics covered include Roman and Greek history, philosophy, religion, mythology, culture, art, archaeology, language and literature in the original Latin or Greek as well as in translation, and its reception, influence and study in ages subsequent to antiquity. Product media include all types except the traditional printed book: av websites, instructional cd-roms, cd-rom games, audio cds, computer diskettes, laser/video discs, instructional videos, lectures on video, films on video/DVD, books on audio cassette, lectures on audio cassette, filmstrips, slides, slide lectures, transparencies, maps, posters, comic books, songbooks, kits, activity books, flashcards/reference cards, coloring books, board/parlor games etc.

There is a separate section devoted to the specific needs of Elementary and Middle School Teachers, and a Miscellaneous category features Classics-related apparel, stationery, art reproductions, and more.

The On-Line Survey provides complete product information, prices from various distributors, and hyperlinks to available on-line reviews, audio and video previews, screenshots of software, and with a click of a mouse viewers are transported to the specific on-line catalog page of every distributor of every product.

Please consider putting a link to this site on your own association's website and your personal and departmental pages and feel free to forward this message to other interested parties. Our goal is to promote Classics in and out of the classroom. Please email me with questions or suggestions at drj@drjclassics.com. Thank you.

Janice Siegel (aka Dr. J), editor, On-Line Survey of Audio-Video Resources for Classics
215-204-1770
http://www.drjclassics.com

Latina reticulata: Web resources in the Latin classroom

Three members of GCA presented a panel, entitled "Latina reticulata: Web resources in the Latin classroom," at the FLAG meeting in Macon.

The World Wide Web is a treasure house of resources for teachers and students of Latin, Greek, and ancient culture. This session pointed the way to the most useful sites, illustrated how teachers are already using Web pages in classroom instruction, and showed the Web novice how to get started.

The World Wide Web can offer three benefits to the Latin teacher: a wealth of information, links to fellow teachers, and a technology attractive and already familiar to our students. This session on Web resources in the Latin classroom had three components. One presentation, by Naomi Norman of the University of Georgia, pointed the way to the most useful sites currently on the Web, especially for Roman culture and Roman archaeology, and showed how to keep up with the rapid appearance of new sites. A second presentation, by Barbara Cotter of Dacula High School, illustrated how teachers are already using Web pages in the classroom, in particular through student collaboration in the creation of their own Latin pages. By this point, we had the audience convinced of the value of using the Web in the classroom. The third presentation, by Juli Fleming of the Lovett School, showed how to overcome the stumbling blocks to using the Web for the teacher who is already too busy, or who doesn't have much internet savvy, or who has too little class time to make room for the Web: the key is to channel our students' knowledge and enjoyment of the Web and to let them teach us.

See Naomi Norman's presentation on the GCA Web site.

See Juli Fleming's presentation on the GCA Web Site.

"Roman Baths" on TV

On Tuesday, February 22, 2000 at 8:00 p.m. EST, PBS aired "Roman Baths" as part of its five-part miniseries "Secrets of Lost Empires: A Nova Special Presentation." As PBS advertises on its web-site, "The five-part miniseries returns to the thrilling technology of yesteryear to recreate ancient wonders of the world using traditional methods and materials."

In "Roman Baths" an international team of scholars, including Fikret Yegul, Peter Aicher, Garrett Fagan, Max Fordham and Tony Rook, will attempt to recreate a working Roman bath on a site in Sardis, Turkey.

PBS has created a web-site that advertises the show. An additional NOVA site contains a Teacher's Guide, Resources, "Real Roman Recipes," and a game that will allow users to create their own virtual Roman aqueduct.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/roman/

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