New Projects

Many new projects and initiatives have benefited from the support of JACT - from "Reading Greek" in the 70's to the present.   

Minimus

The new Latin Course which is most successfully introducing Latin to Primary Schools with the help of a mouse called Minimus. Check out the website - particularly to see examples of the superb illustrations. Read the review in Education Unlimited - includes a definitive 10 reasons for learning a dead language!

For further details about the JACT Primary Latin Grant Fund please contact Mrs Barbara Bell. Email: bmbellmini@aol.com, tel/fax: 0117 953 1819, 82 Swiss Drive, Ashton, Bristol, BS3 2RW.

Online Latin Project

The Cambridge Online Latin Project aims to harness the potential of electronic media to create greater access to the learning of Latin. The project was established in 1999 and has worked with a number of UK schools and independent learners for whom no access to Latin was previously available. For more information on the project click here

Iliad Project

The CSCP has commissioned two leading British storytellers, Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden, to ctreate a new re-telling of the the iliad for use in schools with children aged 9 to 11. Click here for website.

Vindolanda

An online edition of the Vindolanda tablets was launched on March 20th 2003. The website includes texts, translations, notes and new high-resolution ‘zoomable’ digital images of all the published tablets. A virtual exhibition also uses the texts and archaeological evidence from Vindolanda and other sites on Britain’s northern frontier to introduce the content and context of the tablets to a non-specialist audience. Other resources within the website include the scholarly introductions to the tablets, an account of the creation of digital texts and images and a reference guide to specialised aspects of Roman life encountered in the documents, such as currency and military terminology.
This freely accessible site is a resource for research and teaching in classics, ancient history and archaeology in universities and schools as well as for everyone with a general interest in the ancient world.
The website is a collaborative project between the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (Faculty of Classics) and the Academic Computing Development Team at Oxford University, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.
URL: http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/
Further information: vindolanda@classics.ox.ac.uk