Medusa's top websites for Classics teachers
The following list is meant only as a starting point. Indeed, several of the websites listed below contain links to many, many other sites which you may want to explore. If you know of useful websites not listed here, please let us know and we will add them to future versions of this list.
UK Examination Boards
The two examination boards offering courses in classical subjects in the UK are AQA and OCR. Links follow to their sites.
| http://www.aqa.org.uk/ | This first link will take you to AQA's main portal. |
| http://www.aqa.org.uk/qual/gcse/latin.html | This second link will take you to the AQA GCSE Latin syllabus, which includes a vocabulary listing. You can link to other AQA examination syllabuses from the first link. |
http://www.ocr.org.uk/ |
The
third link will take you to OCR's main portal. |
http://www.ocr.org.uk/OCR/WebSite/docroot/ qualifications/qualificationhome/showQualification. do?qual_oid=3186&site=OCR&oid =3186&server=PRODUKTION |
The fourth link will take you to the OCR GCSE Latin syllabus, which includes a vocabulary listing for this syllabus. You can link to other OCR examination syllabuses from the first link. |
Classical Associations
| http://www.jact.org | The Joint
Association of Classical Teachers (JACT) maintains a website with
resources and links for Classics teachers. |
| http://www.arlt.co.uk | The Association for Latin Teaching (ARLT)
exists to promote good practice in teaching, as well as provide a
friendly and supportive network of Latin teachers in the UK. ARLT runs
residential summer courses for teachers, as well as annual refresher
days. |
| http://www.aclclassics.org | The
American Classical League promotes the teaching and learning or
Classics in the USA and beyond. Visit the ACL at the link below. |
Texts on Line
| http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cache/ perscoll_Greco-Roman.html |
The
most important source of ancient texts online is the Perseus website,
which has many resources for language learners and teachers. If you are
looking for a Latin or Greek text, need a translation or a dictionary,
or want to have words morphologically analysed, visit the site at
either of these links.
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| http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/ perscoll_Greco-Roman.html |
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| http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ |
You
will find most Latin texts you could want at the Latin Library. Click
below to visit this.
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| http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe |
If you
want to use an online Latin dictionary, which also does morphological
analysis, try out this link.
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| http://www.tonykline.co.uk |
There are some very useful translations of classical texts to be found here.
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Useful Sites
| http://search.about.com/fullsearch.htm?terms =latin&IAM=URL_latin |
About.com
has a list of Latin resources which may be useful. You can find a huge
number of Latin texts here, among other things. Follow the link
to this site. |
| http://www.classicspage.com/ | Andrew
Wilson has maintained the Classicspage website for some years, which
has excellent resources and materials on it. |
| http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/jact.htm | In
particular, Andrew maintains a list of his top 20 sites, which you can
find at this link. |
| http://www.sas.ac.uk/icls/ClassAss/Classici/index.htm | Classicists
at British universities is a listing maintained by the Classical
Association. Visit it at this link. |
| http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/resources/www/index.asp | Classics
at Oxford contains a wide-ranging set of links of interest to Classics
students and teachers. Visit the site at this address. |
| http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/ |
Hot
Potatoes is a very flexible program which generates quizzes, cloze
passages or even crosswords. It is freely downloadable from the link
below. Certain conditions are attached to its use, and if you do not
work in a state run school, you will probably have to pay to use it, so
you need to read the terms carefully.
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| http://www.lucagalli.net/ |
QuizFaber
is another freely downloadable program which makes quizzes of different
types. Unlike Hot Potatoes, it is always free for end users.
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| http://www.centaursystems.com/soft_dir.html |
Rob
Latousek maintains a directory of software for the American Classical
League. Visit the Software Directory from this link.
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| http://www.cambridgescp.com/ |
The
Cambridge Latin Course maintains a very high profile presence online.
To access the materials, follow this link.
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Software Suppliers
J-PROGS is a
specialist provider of software supporting the learning and teaching of
classical subjects in the UK. Among its range of titles, J-PROGS supplies
versions of Latin Vocab Drill and Latin Flash Drill, specific to AQA
and OCR GCSE syllabuses, as well as many of the best known Latin
language courses. J-PROGS
is an approved Curriculum Online content provider and supplier of
software and can supply software to schools in the maintained sector
purchased by eLearning credits (elcs).
| http://www.j-progs.com/ |
This
link will take you to the J-PROGS website.
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| http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk |
To find
out more about buying software using elcs, visit Curriculum Online
using this link.
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| http://www.doctor-flynn.demon.co.uk |
Dennis
Flynn markets two useful resources for Classics education. Latin
Without Tears is a program in which students can work through Latin
unseens which have appeared on previous GCSE papers, and Greek Without
Tears is a Greek font. For further details, follow this link.
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Medusa is a business run by Julian Morgan, author of J-PROGS software and partner in the Classics ICT Resource Course for Europe (CIRCE). Julian provides training for teachers on site or at Derby Grammar School where he is Head of Classics. Also at this link you can find Julian Morgan's Good Practice Guide for the use of ICT in Classics Teaching. Follow the link below to find out more.
http://www.j-progs.com/medusa.html
