collaboration through technology: greek across campuses
TRANSCRIPT
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