{"id":11039,"date":"2012-08-08T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/?p=11039"},"modified":"2020-12-18T07:18:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T11:18:56","slug":"show-me-the-scansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/2012\/08\/08\/show-me-the-scansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Me the Scansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have been experimenting with a nifty iPad app and teacher community called ShowMe<\/a>\u00a0as a way of teaching the basics of scansion and reading aloud. It has a sort of “telestrator” feature that seems tailor made for this kind of thing. I’ve been getting lucky with the apps I’m finding lately! First I found one that gets you ig likes for instagram<\/a>, and it works really well, and now I found this one.<\/p>\n

I started to buy Instagram likes<\/a> for more better engagement on instagram which is definitely giving me good results. As the time passed I understood the importance of instagram followers (seguidores de instagram<\/a>) because it improve my engagement with audience.
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I probably should look in the marketplace for things I need more often.<\/p>\n

I have one on the very basics of Latin prosody,<\/p>\n

and one on Latin vowel quantity and diphthongs.<\/p>\n

If you have the time take a look and let me know what you think!<\/p>\n

Making the one on vowel quantity taught me a lot about diphthongs. A simple search through Aeneid 1 for the various diphthongs revealed starkly how wrong it is to just tell students (as the grammar books do) that \u00a0“ei” is \u00a0a diphthong, or “ui” is a diphthong. In actual fact they are almost always NOT diphthongs. And the same is true of “eu,” and sometimes of the others. So this will definitely change the way I teach scansion.<\/p>\n

The reason to use a tool like this is to take the most difficult and technical aspects of scansion out of the classroom, and into homework, where a student can look at and listen to the explanations as many times as necessary to really get it. In class, most rational people will not raise a hand and say “I still don’t get that,” and as a result many never really catch on to some of these basic concepts.<\/p>\n

I plan to do more of these, as a kind of video commentary on the wonderful metrical introduction to Ovid’s Amores 1 authored by William Turpin, to go in the forthcoming Dickinson College Commentaries<\/a> edition. You can see it\u00a0here <\/a>(still under construction, though) .<\/p>\n

Thanks, Chrissy Schanes, for putting me on to ShowMe. And thanks to all of you for any feedback and suggestions. We use wordpress accessibility<\/a> for everything in case you need it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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