Latin Internet Project
Juli Fleming
The Lovett School
FLAG, February 2000

The following pages are ready to distribute to students as a project to harness their natural curiosity about the web and to encourage critical exploration of classical topics. Each student presents a website and information on how she found it. If you don't have live or reliable Internet connections in your classroom, you may want to require that she print and bring several pages from the site. This documentation, along with the review sheet, can be collated in a notebook in class and the address posted prominently on a Bulletin Board (preferably the one at which they gaze in class when not attending to grammar activities). I ask students to retrace the path of links or searches or word-of-mouth that led them to the target page.

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LATIN INTERNET PROJECT


You will find and present a website to the class on classical culture or Latin language. You may find it by combining topics of interest on a search of the Internet, or you may hear of an interesting website from friends or acquaintances. Another method is to follow links from known websites.

Make sure to keep notes on each step of your search, as tracing and recreating your process is a component of evaluation.

Presentation dates will be assigned from the following pool :

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Check your school and personal calendar for preferences, and we will assign dates in class on _______________.

You will also complete a review of the website for our notebook and bulletin board. Use the review form provided. As you will need to communicate with the holder of the site, you may need to track several pages simultaneously and decide later which to present.

Your oral presentation should be 10 - 15 minutes.

Evaluation:

25% creative search -- original parameters, # of jumps, how it was recommended?
40% documentation -- steps of search, evaluation form, address, top page of it
20% appropriate to classical culture/interest level
10% clarity of class presentation
5% communication with website holder

To print this assignment sheet, click here, then use your browser's print button: ASSIGNMENT SHEET

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REVIEW FORM

website address: _________________________________________________

general description of contents: ______________________________________

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affiliated school or organization? _____________________________________

date of review: ______________ webpage was last updated on: ____________

email, name, and title of webpage contact:

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FEATURES OF SITE: Describe and comment on the following:

artwork / graphics ________________________________________________

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video _________________________________________________________

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sound _________________________________________________________

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interactive components (a quiz or game, for example) _____________________

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intellectual interest ________________________________________________

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anything else appealing ____________________________________________

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To print this Website Review Sheet, click here, then use your browser's print button: WEBSITE REVIEW SHEET

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