Monika Hardy, Chris Sloan and Paul Allison invite you to come learn with us! Join us at
http://edtechtalk.com/live at 9 PM Eastern / 8 PM Central / 7 PM Mountain / 6 PM Eastern /
World Times.
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Jodhbir Singh has been visiting visiting the
Lab that +
Monika Hardy facilitates. He has a passion to help change education in India where he is from. Monika writes, “We’ve been corresponding for some time now. This is our first face to face. He’s incredible and will have some good insight of what we’re doing and how it looks in person.Also we will be learning more about a group of teachers who teach the classics using gaming. Join us to learn more from the
Pericles Group.
+Kevin Ballestrini teaches Latin and Mythology at the
Norwich Free Academy in Connecticut. He has received an M.A. and B.A. in Classics from the
University of Colorado and
University of Connecticut respectively. In addition to experience teaching in a traditional classroom setting, in the 2010-2011 academic year Kevin deployed the first fully practomimetic introductory language course at the high school level in a section of Latin I. The experience has clearly enhanced student engagement and connection to life and culture in ancient Rome. For 2011-12, he will be expanding the offering of practomimetic courses to the second year of introductory Latin in addition to the first. As an avid technology enthusiast, he maintains his blog,
Techna Virumque Cano (
http://kevinbal.blogspot.com) where he discusses the intersection of technology and his teaching. He is also a regular contributor to the collaborative blog
Play the Past (
http://playthepast.org). Kevin is the leader of a large kinship in The Lord of the Rings Online and active in many gaming communities.
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+Roger Travis is an Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages of the University of Connecticut. He is also the Director of the Video Games and Human Values Initiative (http://vghvi.org) at UConn, an interdisciplinary online nexus for online courses and scholarly activities like fellowships, symposia, and the initiative’s Proceedings, of which he is the editor. He received his Bachelor’s degree in classics from Harvard College, and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley before arriving at UConn in 1997. He has published on Homeric epic, Greek tragedy, Greek historiography, the 19th C. British novel, HALO, and the massively-multiplayer online role-playing game He has been President of the Classical Association of New England and of the Classical Association of Connecticut. He writes the blog Living Epic (http://livingepic.org) about his discovery of the fundamental connection between ancient epic and the narrative video game, and is a founder and contributor of the collaborative blog Play the Past(http://playthepast.org). In the 2009-2010 academic year, Roger offered the first courses ever designed entirely as practomimes (seehttp://www.academicimpressions.com/news.php?i=59 for detail).
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