Teaching with Home Pages, a project of VRoma

1) to increase our ability to use information technology for teaching purposes
2) to serve as a resource for ourselves, our students, and other Latin teachers
3) to promote student interest in the Latin language and Roman culture and civilization
4) to help students develop reading/translation, oral, and aural comprehension skills

LEARNING GOALS:

1) we will be able to

• create well-designed web pages that bring together our own course materials and other related web sites in a clear, appealing, and easy to use fashion
• use these home pages, the Jason site, and other computer-based materials as effective teaching tools

• use our home pages as a resource for finding other internet materials and developing their own teaching materials
• make use of the Jason site in their own courses

• demonstrate their oral, aural, or reading/translation skills using the Jason site
• communicate in Latin with a student in another Memphis school using, if possible, e-mail, the internet, or the MOO
• use their teacher's home page as a gateway to the web to complete a project involving Roman civilization or culture
• use computer-based programs to improve their reading/translation, grammatical, or vocabulary skills
• work on projects collaboratively using the internet
• add suggestions for the growth of the site

Latin courses: Depending on their students' access to computers and the internet, all the teachers will use their web pages, the Jason site, and other computer-based programs both in their classrooms and for homework assignments.

Assessment Methods:

• on-site feedback forms on the home pages and Jason site
• student assignments keyed to the above learning goals, including logs and student reports of computer use
• teaching journals documenting use of the materials
• evaluation of effectiveness of student projects
• satisfaction surveys for students and teachers