Accepting friend requests

March 10th, 2010

I know that this will show my ignorance, but how do I accept friendship requests – serious answers only please!!

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new on-line Latin resource: Tres Columnae

March 7th, 2010

There is a new on-line Latin resource (still under development) called Tres Columnae. It is a “Latin Learning Community,” which will be open to anyone, and the aim is for those who join up to contribute to it … add to the stories, provide pictures and videos, join a virtual seminar. Contributors will be credited. To find out more, take a look at:

www.trescolumnae.com

It can be used as a supplementary resource with any text (or none) and GCSE vocabulary will be targeted. I’m helping to develop it, so let me know if you have questions, or just ask them at the Tres Columnae blog.
ut valeatis!
Ann Martin

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Chat Room Date!!

March 7th, 2010

I’ll be online and in the Chat Room for anyone who would like to ask anything about the site, or just try out the Chat Room to see it in use.

I’ll be there tonight (Sunday) from 6pm.

If no one joins me, I might just leave the room after a few minutes!!

Hope to see you there, otherwise if you have any questions, just send me an email.

Best,
Steve

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Resources: Where are they?

March 5th, 2010

If all is going well (!), once you’ve registered with the new site and logged in, you should see the Resources link just below your name on the right-hand side of the screen.

If you can’t see this, please email me to let me know!

Steve

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Horrible horrible horrible

March 4th, 2010

If you haven’t been on here for a few days or more, read all of the posts below.

SORRY to anyone who had trouble accessing resources this afternoon. It has not been fun finding myself two steps further back while not feeling sure that there isn’t a precipice behind me.

Anyway, the Resources link is NOW there as soon as you log in.

There’ll be more to-ing and fro-ing for a few days yet, I imagine…

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We’re getting there!

March 3rd, 2010

I managed to work on the site a little today, and it seems to be coming together. Any comments/thoughts on it all, please email me.

New/returning members
You may have noticed that things have changed.  This was rather forced upon me, and therefore upon you (the whole site crashed and burned on Saturday, and I’ve had to start over with many things).

Getting into the site and its resources
Click on Register, complete the simple info, confirm your email address, and you can login. Once logged in, you’ll see a link appear to the Resources, which takes you to the normal trusty pages.

Bigger and Better
The site, an an ironic result of all this, will be much more powerful. By registering through the site, we all become part of a live community of classicists, a safe network designed solely for Classics teachers. Many more options will become available. For example, you can create your very own blog within the site (say, for your department), you can create groups for a particular specialism (say, a consortium of local schools, colleagues with a particular subject interest, or a working group to build resources for a particular topic), you can create discussion threads in forums, appeal to members for resources, and much more.

It’s the first time, in the history of The Classics Library, where we can do all of these things easily within one site.

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Emergency Page….

February 27th, 2010

The Classics Library ‘died’ yesterday (Saturday 26th February). It was very upsetting. It’ll take a lot of hours to get the site back to where it was, and I hope you’ll be patient with me. I know things look different, but it’s still very easy to access the resources!

What do you need to do?
You need to click on either ‘Sign Up’ (top of page) or ‘Register’ (right of page) and complete the basic info. You choose which email address you want to be registered with, and you choose your own password. Once you’ve registered, please log in. You’ll find a link to the Resources by your login-status, next to your name.

Your registration information is kept private within this site. This site, unlike FaceBook and the old Classics Library Community, is hosted entirely by myself, and your details remain with this site. The only information requested is: name, email address, school/organisation. The latter is purely to ensure legitimate teaching status for membership.

This disaster may in fact result in a much more powerful and interactive site (something I’ve wanted for some time now), so I’m trying to see this as an opportunity. Within this one site we should be able to create forums and easily contact other members (to ask for resources, promote an event, promote a forthcoming teaching position, and so on. You can create Groups with a particular focus, lead them, and invite members to them. You can even host your own blog on a particular topic, say about a new initiative you’re trying out at your school, where members can comment and help with advice and support.

I’m sorry about the change. I wasn’t expecting to have to do this, but I hope it’ll be MUCH better for us for the future.

Steve

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