Hi Dianne, the connection required for streaming is basic broadband. So that rules out Dial-up, but anything better should work. This last year we had students from East to West coast, Abu Dhabi, Alaska, etc., with varying connections speeds, and while the video is not crystal clear 100% of the time, all students were able to participate just fine! In fact, Jim Nance taught from Hawaii this year while we were at a conference through tethering his laptop to his cell phone over LTE. Thankfully streaming technology has improved greatly over the last few years, and is getting better every day! Best, Daniel

Hi all! I saw a link to this thread, and noticed a couple people asking about the new "Flipped Classroom" that uses Old Western Culture and live online classes together. We are about to release all the info on www.romanroadsmedia.com about the new online class for year 2015-2016, though it is no secret as there is already info on Schola Classical Tutorials website. So you can consider this a special "pre-release" info post where you get to hear Wes Callihan talk about how the new course will work in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqkNGPAFMeI Within about a week, you will be able to sign up for everything on RomanRoadsMedia.com! Thanks for the questions and comments! Blessings, Daniel Founder, Roman Roads Media

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If you're looking for an online high school chemistry course, look into Archimedes Online Tutorials. Very qualified teacher. http://www.archimedesonline.org/

Can we add Roman Roads Media to the list? http://www.romanroadsmedia.com Classical Education video courses. Featured course: Old Western Culture, a 4 year literature-based humanities course by Wes Callihan

This post was from about a year ago, when Old Western Culture was quite new. Many people are now using it (and loving it from the feedback I'm hearing!). One particularly well-written review was from Exodus Books, and I thought it would be helpful to anyone thinking about the program. You can find the review by Exodus Books here: http://www.exodusbooks.com/category.aspx?id=8369 And we now have a full "Preview the Course" page where you can watch full lessons from each unit, download the accompanying materials and workbooks, etc. You can see all that here: http://www.romanroadsmedia.com/sample-lessons/ Hope this helps, Sincerely, Daniel

Katilic, Thanks! Someone else just pointed that out to me, and I wrote this in reply, and wanted you to see: Candid, very sorry about that! I knew publishers were not supposed to advertise, but felt this was more along the lines of answering a relvant question with something I knew about. Since I'm involved in producing these materials, obivously my knowledge will be tied to what I'm producing. I just reread the guidelines and I do see that what I was doing is not allowed, and I will certainly refrain from this in the future. Since I am very interested in curriculum, was homeschooled myself (and had a mom who loved curriculum!), and plan to homeschool our kids, I am genually interested by many of these topics! I've promoted several other curriculums on this forum so far that I am not connected to, and I assume that's fine to do? I do have many years of first hand experience with old (and some of the newest) curriculums out there. I'll admit it may be hard to see someone post "I'm looking for (exact description of what you've developed)" and not say "over here!", but I do understand that this forum wants to keep this a neutral, third-party, homeschooler-to-homeschooler environment. I'm the third of these, but obviously not the first two when it comes to our products. Thanks for your patience with a newbie - I will only mention our products while answering direct questions about them! Blessings, Daniel

Candid, very sorry about that! I knew publishers were not supposed to advertise, but felt this was more along the lines of answering a relvant question with something I knew about. Since I'm involved in producing these materials, obivously my knowledge will be tied to what I'm producing. I just reread the guidelines and I do see that what I was doing is not allowed, and I will certainly refrain from this in the future. Since I am very interested in curriculum, was homeschooled myself (and had a mom who loved curriculum!), and plan to homeschool our kids, I am genually interested by many of these topics! I've promoted several other curriculums on this forum so far that I am not connected to, and I assume that's fine to do? I do have many years of first hand experience with old (and some of the newest) curriculums out there. I'll admit it may be hard to see someone post "I'm looking for (exact description of what you've developed)" and not say "over here!", but I do understand that this forum wants to keep this a neutral, third-party, homeschooler-to-homeschooler environment. I'm the third of these, but obviously not the first two when it comes to our products. :) Thanks for your patience with a newbie - I will only mention our products while answering direct questions about them! Blessings, Daniel

I'm not the author/teacher, but I'm a producer on the video course associated with the list. These are the books assembled by Wes Callihan of Schola Classical Tutorials, and the one's he assigns as part of "Old Western Culture: A Christian Approach to the Great Books." Wes Callihan's list is very traditional (close to Adlers) for the Ancients, but is more inclusive of Medieval works than Adler later on. His take on the Great Books is distinctively Christian, and he feels that the reason many works were left out in the "Dark Ages," or as he would say, "The Age of Faith" or "Christendom" ought not to have been left out. I feel that both Christians and non-Christians would benefit from a closer look at what books we consider "great" and this is a great place to start!

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Hen, the IEW "grammar of poetry" is the exact same one as the one linked above. You might have seen the old 2000 version which has a new cover (2012 version), but it's the same. The 2012 version has DVDs with it (though the DVDs are compatible with the 2000 version as well).

Love the idea of memorizing the first lines of the Iliad! I had to learn the first lines of The Aeneid in college, and that was a lot of fun too. Here's a fun reading of the first lines of the Iliad in both English (Lattimore) AND in Greek! As well as a short discussion of the poetry. Thought you all might enjoy it, and maybe use it if you decide to memorize those lines:

If you want a serious study of Ancient Lit., consider the Old Western Culture series, specifically, The Greeks. Full disclosure: I am one of the producers on this new curriculum, so I'm biased, but I don't think wrongly so ;-) I do think it would answer your dilemma if you want Ancient Lit. It's filmed with a real veteran of the classics - Wes Callihan from Schola Classical Tutorials! you can find out about it here: http://www.romanroadsmedia.com/store/the-greeks.php

Look into Economics for Everyone by Compass Classroom. They're excellent! Comes with study guide/workbook.

I would recommend Lingua Latina and Visual Latin (DVD program). I'm friends with the producer, and have started watching the DVDs myself. I did Latin in college, but I can tell I'm going to learn Latin much better with this!! My alma mater fairly recently switched to Lingua Latina themselves (after I left....)