{"id":1480,"date":"2017-11-10T18:35:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2017-11-10T18:35:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:35:32","slug":"latin-chinese-and-baked-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/2017\/11\/10\/latin-chinese-and-baked-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin, Chinese, and Baked Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nice article <\/a>was recently published by Concord Academy’s website about their successful collaborative project <\/a> to translate the DCC Caesar into Mandarin<\/a>. The project was led by CA’s Latin teacher Liz Penland, with help from their Mandarin teacher and many students. The article quotes Liz saying some very nice things about DCC:<\/p>\n

Penland believes a classical education should not just be the mark of the elite. \u201cAnyone should be able to study Latin,\u201d she says. With its peer-reviewed, crowd-sourced approach, DCC is leading a charge to make the classics accessible to anyone with an internet connection. And despite an international trend of declining study of the classical humanities, thousands of students in China are learning Latin and ancient Greek.<\/p>\n

Many high schools, colleges, and universities rely on DCC commentaries, as does Penland. By aggregating generations of contextual notes, they reveal \u201ca chain of interpretation, of teaching, and of use,\u201d she says. \u201cThey help the text feel more like a cultural object that many people have read.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A little further down we see how many people were involved, students, administrators, and teachers:<\/p>\n

Once Penland had recruited students, Adam Bailey, head of modern and classical languages, and John Drew, assistant head of school and academic dean, offered their support. It seemed the perfect project to encourage research and independent thinking. Mandarin teacher Wenjun Kuai agreed to consult with students. \u201cWenjun is such a generous colleague and a wonderful teacher,\u201d Penland says. \u201cShe did so much work on the Mandarin. The students had responsibility and a voice in how the project ran. Their group work was self-directed. It was a highly collaborative process, a model of linguistic research.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then there is the crucial role of baked goods:<\/p>\n

 A friendly but intense competition emerged, thanks to weekly \u201cbrownie challenges\u201d that earned baked goods from Penland. Lin, who completed numerous translations, says, \u201cI\u2019m not going to lie. It really motivated me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Liz put the fundamental purposes of DCC better than I could: access, community, intellectual inquiry. I am so proud of the folks at CA who used DCC in such creative ways, as a learning resource, but also as a way to share knowledge with others and have fun themselves. It shows the potential power of getting students involved in scholarly digital projects at every appropriate level. Here’s hoping DCC can be part of more wonderful projects like this in the future!<\/p>\n

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The Concord Academy Latin-Mandarin Project team. Photo (by Rebecca Lindegren, use only with permission): Top row from left: Ben Zide, Tenzin Rosson, Ken Lin (\u6797\u9e3f\u71ca), Michael Qiu (\u90b1\u9633), Anna Dibble, Lysie Jones, Elizabeth Penland. Bottom row from left: Nora Zhou (\u5468\u5b89\u742a), Helen Wu (\u5434\u9896\u6021), Rebecca Yang (\u6768\u82e5\u797a)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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