collaboration through technology: greek across campuses

The curricular challenges of small departments: • Teaching a variety of courses in the languages, culture, and general education requires prioritizing. • Often, departments cannot offer ancient Greek on a regular basis or at all.

The Problem Methods

Collaboration through Technology: Greek Across CampusesRyan C. Fowler, Ph.D.

SUNOIKISIS

The Solution: Collaboration

Logistical Arrangements

Technical Infrastructure

Curricular Materials

Sequencing & Integration

Institutional type, calendars, and schedules

Realtime high-quality video and audio: connecting groups, not individuals

Participating institutions:

Elon University & Rhodes College

Southwestern University & Rollins College

Kalamazoo College & Hope College

Technology

2, 3, or 4 semester sequence: working toward target texts at the advanced level

Open-source, extensible, adaptable for mobile devices and social networking, etc.

Archived TED-style lectures and podcasts focusing on whole sentences or specific grammatical or syntactic constructions

Pronunciation guides, possibly with corresponding voice recognition software

Target text has cooperative, blog-style online commentary

Cooperation among institutions• Hosted at a single institution

Sequential Collaboration • Institutions trade off sequences

Concurrent Collaboration• Institutions trade off instruction within a given term

Thursday, April 12, 2012