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    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:45:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[News and Events] Re: Recording ancient poetry</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?13,65,68#msg-68</link>
      <author>poseidon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[thanks for the links, Neven!

when it comes to recording Greek poetry, l find very useful the following guide to the pronunciation of epic hexametre:

http://www.aoidoi.org/articles/epic/recite.pdf

I'd be glad to hear your opinions about it. it resembles very much Bianca's method in reading Latin poetry, and is, I believe, a closer reconstruction of the &quot;real thing&quot; than the method currently used in most schools and Universities. and, the best part of all, it's not hard to reproduce after one listens closely the MP3 files several times.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:45:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[News and Events] Re: concordance &amp; other tools online</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?13,61,67#msg-67</link>
      <author>poseidon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[thanks a lot for the useful links!

lately, I have been a little too busy, but in the next week or two my schedule will be lighter and I'll post here the results of my first try with the proposed software.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:39:55 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[News and Events] The texts to be recorded: Catullus &amp; Plato</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?13,65,66#msg-66</link>
      <author>filologanoga</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Oh, and I upload the texts we read in Kiten, in pdf, for your convenience.

Neven


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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:59:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[News and Events] Recording ancient poetry</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?13,65,65#msg-65</link>
      <author>filologanoga</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear all,

here is the knowledge I used, and the software I use, to  record sound with a computer:

[url=http://www.madinpursuit.com/Tutorials/Sound01/sound01_capturing.htm]Capturing sound[/url]: &quot;This tutorial is for frustrated amateurs -- people who take pride in the quality of their work but who don't know jack about sound systems. I'm not posing as an expert, just someone who had to learn this the hard way -- without a teenager by my side.&quot;

And two pieces of software, both quite easy to install and use:

[url]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/[/url]: Audacity, The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor --- Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

[url]http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/[/url]: WaveSurfer is an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. It has been designed to suit both novice and advanced users. WaveSurfer has a simple and logical user interface that provides functionality in an intuitive way and which can be adapted to different tasks. It can be used as a stand-alone tool for a wide range of tasks in speech research and education. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription. WaveSurfer can also serve as a platform for more advanced/specialized applications. This is accomplished either through extending the WaveSurfer application with new custom plug-ins or by embedding WaveSurfer visualization components in other applications. --- [b]NB: for me, Wavesurfer was simpler and more reliable to use than Audacity. But, de gustibus. (NJ)[/b]

Yours,

Neven
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:56:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[News and Events] Re: And Librivox, also</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?13,61,64#msg-64</link>
      <author>ellen</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Oh, [url=http://librivox.org/] LibriVox[/url] is great indeed. Not much Latin, but some very nice readings of Japanese poetry :-)


Elena.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 04:13:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[News and Events] And Librivox, also</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?13,61,63#msg-63</link>
      <author>filologanoga</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear all,

also, we did not have a chance to present and explore the [url=http://www.librivox.org/]LibriVox[/url] collection, but have a look at it yourselves.

And, please remember the reading experiments we had (thanks to Bianca), and try to find time and means to record your readings!  It could be done using anything --- a tape recorder will do.

Detailed instruction for recording / transferring sound recording to computer will follow.

Yours,

neven
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      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:09:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[News and Events] concordance &amp; other tools online</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?13,61,61#msg-61</link>
      <author>mccarty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear colleagues:

Because the Internet was unavailable during the last few days in Kiten, I did not get a chance to pass along the web-address of the TAPor (&quot;Text-Analysis Portal&quot;) site, which gives access to a number of useful tools. In some ways, having these online is better than having software on your machine, esp for teaching purposes. The disadvantage is the slow speed across the great distance from Canada to Bulgaria. But note that all the online software can be downloaded and put on a local server -- by someone who knows the technical side of things. This could be done at the Proclassics site, perhaps?

If you go to http://tapor.humanities.mcmaster.ca/home.html, then click on TAPor Portal Public Release 1 button (upper left-hand corner), you'll see what is available.

All the best.

Yours,
WM]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:55:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Intersession Activities] Re: Commentaries</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?12,48,60#msg-60</link>
      <author>calendula</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Salvete! 
Neven, the info was really useful, 10x!
and... we already got this book for our small, but special 'Project Library' - everybody from the Resource persons and from the participants could use it during the next September Contact Session in Sofia!

Nevena ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:23:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Intersession Activities] Annotating text</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?12,59,59#msg-59</link>
      <author>filologanoga</author>
      <description><![CDATA[First sketch of what I would like to be intersessionaly active in can be found at:
[url]http://mudrac.ffzg.hr/~njovanov/hesp/liv-b.xml[/url]
Alas, you have to use either Firefox or Internet Explorer to view the page (the browser has to be able to transform XML documents).
I made this using the UVic Image Markup Tool:
[url]http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/[/url]
from the TaPoR portal --- which has, by the way, a lot of other interesting tools and features for analyzing text.
Now, I have to think of a way of annotating sound recording... and integrating it all together...
Any impressions, help, and collaboration welcome,
Neven
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 06:21:15 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Forum and Site Suggestions] Re: On http://www.proclassics.org</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?14,49,58#msg-58</link>
      <author>mono</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thank you for the good words :) 
I am trying to use the latest technologies to made this site smooth, fast loading and intuitive. Anti-spam scripts are provided my Mambo software and they’re really useful.

Best regards,]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:28:15 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Miscellanea] Re: New e-text resource</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,56,57#msg-57</link>
      <author>poseidon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[it's a valuable site indeed, hope it expands in the future. I would gladly cooperate to it (e.g. by proofreading) but I gotta finish my PhD thesis first. 

as to the scanned/OCR texts, it's a good idea but we have already built Romulus on an entirely different principles (namely, importing a tagged text into a MySQL database). changing this would require a completely different architecture of the site.

but the suggestion could work for a future Greek counterpart of Romulus (Theseus Bulgaricus?). I hope the OCR technologies for recognising Greek characters work better by the time we start with that. as for now, they seem rather unreliable to me (as proven by the materials in ancientlibrary.com itself).

in exchange, I'm giving these favorite links of mine (in case you don't already know them):

[url=http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html]Bibliotheca Augustana[/url]

[url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html]Lacus Curtius[/url]

greetings,

Dimitar]]></description>
      <category>Miscellanea</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:07:09 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Miscellanea] New e-text resource</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,56,56#msg-56</link>
      <author>filologanoga</author>
      <description><![CDATA[While looking for a Greek text by Lucian, I found this:

[url]http://www.ancientlibrary.com/[/url]

I like these parts from the main page:

You've reached the first stirrings of a major new classics resource. So far, we're mostly testing the engine and working on architecture. Don't be fooled; this is going to be a major site in the near future...

and:

Does this sound interesting to you? Do you have any ideas? Get involved! We're going to need editors, and lots of user feedback. Write the editor, Tim Spalding, at...

The relation of scanned page-images to OCR-ed pages is presented in an interesting way... some ideas for our projects (Romulus?)...

neven]]></description>
      <category>Miscellanea</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:23:58 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Miscellanea] Re: Reading Latin</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,39,55#msg-55</link>
      <author>filologanoga</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Poseidon,

correct: for saving the recordings, right-click, and then &quot;Save link as&quot; can save you lot of ITunes bother, especially if you subscribe to RSS feed (Firefox can turn this into a bookmark, see help for information).

neven]]></description>
      <category>Miscellanea</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:20:22 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Miscellanea] Re: Reading Latin</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,39,54#msg-54</link>
      <author>poseidon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[well, interesting news indeed.

at first, I was at a loss what to do with these recordings as I don't use iTunes but I found out that you can download the files straight from the project web-page that I reached somehow via stoa.org (don't remember the exact URL), and then play them in Winamp.

my first impressions are good, the experiment is interesting and I can say it's working. a slight little thing for the crew to work upon is the spontaneity of the spoken word. they all can try pronouncing the phrases in a way so as to resemble more a real-life casual dialogue. but nothing's perfect from the very beginning and I'll keep on following the new stuff these people do.

btw I couldn't find the Horatius verses that were announced  first when the news were published at stoa.org. I'm curious to hear them, firstly, because I'm very much into restauration of ancient oral poetry (all of it it was written for the ear and not for the eye) and, secondly, because I grasped the name of Milena Minkova who's an ex-colleague from our Department and obviously continues with her successful scholarly career on the other side of the Atlantic. ]]></description>
      <category>Miscellanea</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:05:59 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Miscellanea] Re: Bookmark collections</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,51,53#msg-53</link>
      <author>poseidon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[thanks for the links! 

I'll also register at this wonderful service and provide everybody with my own links, as soon as I'm able to raise my head from the books. I'm very busy lately finishing my PhD but I think I might have something to share, too.

otherwise, I'm browsing through your links concerning audio recordings of spoken word and I find those pretty interesting (and I can well see that you're fascinated with that :))

and your blog commentary about Bulgarian and Croatian languages was a real enjoyment for me (yes, I was able to read it and comprehended about 95 % of it, as I think all the Bulgarians would be able to).

cheers, 

Dimitar]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:51:32 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Miscellanea] Bookmark collections</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,51,51#msg-51</link>
      <author>filologanoga</author>
      <description><![CDATA[One way to pool our resources may be to look into our bookmarks.  Well, here are mine (at least those I wanted to make public):

[url]http://del.icio.us/njovanovic[/url] (del.icio.us)

[url]http://www.connotea.org/user/filologanoga[/url] (connotea)

Feel free to use it!

neven
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:57:59 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Intersession Activities] Image markup</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?12,50,50#msg-50</link>
      <author>filologanoga</author>
      <description><![CDATA[A new, and promising, tool for marking up the images is out.  It is called The UVic Image Markup Tool: [url]http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/[/url].  It seems perfect for my plan to connect images of inscriptions, manuscripts et al. with its transcriptions. I believe you lot will find ways to use it too.
Yours, Neven

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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:54:26 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Forum and Site Suggestions] On http://www.proclassics.org</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?14,49,49#msg-49</link>
      <author>ellen</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The site looks really good, and quite well thought. At first, I had been startled to see the e-mail addresses available there, but then I looked into the code of the page and saw they were protected from spam bots. Good work!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:36:21 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Intersession Activities] Commentaries</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?12,48,48#msg-48</link>
      <author>filologanoga</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The potential collaborators on the commentaries project may find this useful:

Pade, Marianne (ed.), On Renaissance Commentaries. Noctes Neolatinae, 4. Hildesheim: Olms, 2005. Pp. 139. $34.80 (pb). ISBN 3-487-12955-8.

This book is now &quot;on offer&quot; (meaning you can apply for writing a review of it) on Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR): [url]http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-12-01.html[/url]

Yours,
Neven]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:32:45 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Miscellanea] Re: Linguae classicae extra fines</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,45,47#msg-47</link>
      <author>calendula</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi to everybody,
Reading Neven's message, I dare to think that the situation at our university is not the worst possible... (Neven, I didn't understand who are &quot;des modernes&quot; at the Law department in Zagreb  - the ones, who think they don't need Latin at all, or just the opposite?:-))

about the dfferent textbooks - yes, this was one of the results of the Sofia round table, mentioned by poseidon - we have to (or even started to) establish working groups for preparing several textbooks - for archaelogists, ancient historians, philologists, philosophers etc... I'm personally interested in the, so to say, &quot;old greek &amp; latin vocabulary for specialists in literary theory&quot;...

another conclusion from our meeting: we have to advertise more eagerly our &quot;product&quot;, because there're compulsory courses in Latin and Greek at many Departments, but more valuable (for both sides) would be the elective ones for studensts who are already aware that they need Latin and/or Greek for their special &amp; professional work as philosophers for example and we have to be ready to propose exactly such courses...

and last, but not least - the problems in Bulgaria in that field begin with the fact that there're (almost) no ancient languages at school...but this is another, not less extensive question...

Have a nice Sunday,
Nevena ]]></description>
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      <title>[Miscellanea] Re: Linguae classicae extra fines</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,45,46#msg-46</link>
      <author>filologanoga</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The situation in Croatia, Univ of Zagreb, is:

--- there are some who value classical languages as part of tradition. Such are the professors at the Faculty of Law, who made it possible for me to write and publish a textbook &quot;Latinitas Juridica&quot;, teaching Latin basics to students of law.  On the other hand, since this textbook is named as it is --- even though the syntax and grammar, and many of the texts and sentences, are &quot;universal&quot; --- everybody else is reluctant to use it... At the same time, at the same faculty, there are some who think students of law can go along quite well without Latin (querelle des anciens et modernes)

--- there are some specialties that we, as Department of Classical Philology, have &quot;given up&quot;: e.g. Dep of History has its own Latin teacher, philosophers think (I presume) no knowledge of Greek or Latin is absolutely necessary for studying philosophy.  Latin is taught extra fines by our staff to students of Romance languages and students of archeology --- but nobody has special textbooks, we do not use epigraphic (or etymological) material, etc.  Consequently, the results are unsatisfactory, I am afraid: except for going through the motions, and taking up our teaching capacities, the students do not learn much that will be useful for their further studies.  Also, the mood is such that we would almost salute giving up teaching Latin to Romanists and archeologists as well...  I do not think this is a good situation; I am merely reporting (and thanking you for bringing this problem up).

Finally, the same isolation --- one person working for another department, but almost as if this person is not there --- can be detected in Zagreb too.

Suggestion: let us use our (limited) resources for creating, if not textbooks, at least sourcebooks, tailored to special needs of extra fines &quot;customers&quot;.  It pays --- after an initially more tasking job, you (or somebody else) can use and reuse this sourcebook many times, building upon it, enhancing it.  Also, I believe publishing in *small* quantities is something that can be done much easier, thanks to computers etc.  It does not need to look professional --- remember the &quot;scripta&quot; we learned from!

Yours,

neven
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      <category>Miscellanea</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:34:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Miscellanea] Linguae classicae extra fines</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,45,45#msg-45</link>
      <author>poseidon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday I and my colleagues at the Department of Classics, together with lecturers from other Departments, participated in a round table concerning classical languages taught at the University for philosophers, historians, Romance philologists, and all who are not classical scholars.

if you remember, the 'extra fines' aspect was also emphasized  by Nevena on our Conctact Session.

the conclusions we reached at:

1) classical languages need to be taught differently according to the different fields and their particular needs. however, we don't have well-estabished standards for that, and we simply don't have enough people equally competent in both areas (say, Latin and law) to be successful teachers.

the first problem can be solved with more good will and work, while the second one needs a complex long-term strategy; personally, I am at a loss what should be done

2) sometimes the Department that sends the language teacher (our Department) and the Department that host him/her, act as though 'the left hand shouldn't know what the right hand is doing';

3) if we're not capable of being attractive to specialists in areas other than ours, Classical Studies may be extinct in several decades.

I'm curious to hear (or rather read) your comments and learn what the situation is at your home institutions.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:13:50 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Forum and Site Suggestions] Re: new posts</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?14,41,44#msg-44</link>
      <author>poseidon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[a warm welcome to the Forum also from me!

[i]ut multas disputationes fructuosissimas hic habeamus![/i]

(forgive my non-classical Latin, it's been a while since I had something to do with that language :D )

just two things to add:

1) be sure to be logged in every time you check for new messages;

2) if you opt for the RSS feed (which is a new and exciting option for me), I suggest that you leave MS Outlook and rather choose  [url=http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/]Mozilla Thunderbird[/url]]]></description>
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      <title>[Forum and Site Suggestions] Re: new posts</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?14,41,43#msg-43</link>
      <author>Octavian</author>
      <description><![CDATA[thanks, I realised it in the meanwhile. it's reasonable. nice to meet you, too]]></description>
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      <title>[Forum and Site Suggestions] New posts.</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?14,41,42#msg-42</link>
      <author>mono</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi, my name is Simeon and I'm proclassics web designer. Nice to meet you :)

Of coerce, you can see if there is new post in some of the forums/topics. For example, you should see red title &quot;new!&quot; on the front page of the forum in &quot;Forum and Site Suggestions&quot; section (you should be logged-in in order to be able to use this option).

If you know what is RSS / News Feed you can receive the latest posts directly in your mailbox or in you News Feed Reader software. 

You can ask [url]http://google.com[/url] about RSS / News Feed Readers.

Regars, 
Simeon
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      <category>Forum and Site Suggestions</category>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?14,41,42#msg-42</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:49:55 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Forum and Site Suggestions] new posts</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?14,41,41#msg-41</link>
      <author>Octavian</author>
      <description><![CDATA[can we see if / what are the new posts [i]in foro[/i]?
i mean, is there a possibility to make an optical difference between already read messages and new ones?]]></description>
      <category>Forum and Site Suggestions</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:17:13 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Miscellanea] Re: Reading Latin</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,39,40#msg-40</link>
      <author>poseidon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm intrigued. but currently my i-net connection sucks and I can't reach stoa.org.  I'll try and check later.]]></description>
      <category>Miscellanea</category>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,39,40#msg-40</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2005 02:05:49 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Miscellanea] Reading Latin</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,39,39#msg-39</link>
      <author>filologanoga</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Interesting news on [url]http://www.stoa.org[/url]:

[b]Latin podcasting experiment[/b]: a recording of neo-Latin colloquia (as you know, pedagogical in nature, therefore usable in our classrooms):

[url]http://www.stoa.org/?p=250[/url]

(In comments you will find some technical advice on recording voice --- not to be neglected!)

This is something I could also use for some of intersession activities...

Neven
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      <category>Miscellanea</category>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?16,39,39#msg-39</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:50:14 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[News and Events] Re: I´m not sure...</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?13,17,38#msg-38</link>
      <author>Fijodalgo</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks to you, Dimitar! 
Now, let's working!]]></description>
      <category>News and Events</category>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?13,17,38#msg-38</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:33:31 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[News and Events] Re: I´m not sure...</title>
      <link>http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?13,17,36#msg-36</link>
      <author>Fijodalgo</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks a lot, Octavian!]]></description>
      <category>News and Events</category>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://forum.proclassics.org/read.php?13,17,36#msg-36</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:31:47 -0500</pubDate>
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