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Posted May 27, 2009 
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Comments(2) | I like edublogs. It’s probably real good for teachers with students. But it’s not so searchable as it once was.
So I tried to make a new blog on WordPress, and found it somewhat confusing (if you’re not a techie).
So I ended up making yet another blog on Blogger. This is an education blog, with short bits and hits, somewhat more tied to events in the world. Title is: educationimproved.blogspot.com
Lively, sometimes aggressive, holding educator tootsies to the fire. Stop by.
Dear Mr. Price,
I found your Latin word list, and your “How to teach Latin” on Youtube this week. I have just today spent about 4 hours making a poster for my Exploratory Latin classes, with a 7th-grade version of that word list (only 267 of the 333), faces of G.Iu.. Caesar and Marcus Antonius at the top–”Look at all the Latin you already know! G.IU.C. and M.A. spoke these very words and so do you”
Would love to send you the Publisher file in thanks for your having done the work of creating the list and the teach Latin video.
I have the great good fortune to be a Latin teacher. My students decline and conjugate ad infinitum, we sing our grammar(I make grammar raps); year by year, I find they are turning into grammar nerds. They get excited by new uses of the ablative. It’s heavenly.
And–I taught my 3 daughters to read using the McGuffey readers–did not trust that learning/teaching endeavor to the public school teachers.
Thanks for the work you are doing–even if you are preaching to the choir.
Louise G. Wesson (Southeastern PA)
Thanks, Mrs. Wesson,
The ultimate fan mail–people using the thing.
I put your letter under the list on Improve-Education. Used your initials. Let me know if you want it edited or more/less identification.
Now, the next step is to infiltrate this thing into English and History classes. (I have a related article out there: The Best Way to Teach Anything–Use the Known…same points as video but an article.)
Please write something for the local whatever–that bit about grammar nerds is real good. They get excited, that’s great…I don’t like the idea of preaching to the choir. I want to turn everybody into the choir.
The Education Establishment is anti-intellectual. Your voice is the best antitoxin.
Think I’ll use your quotes on my blog. Not that anybody reads it, but tell me how much of your name I should use.
Thanks again,
Bruce Price