Archive | February, 2008

Using open source software for CALL

This was a workshop aimed at informing language teaching officers of the MML Faculty of the University of Cambridge on the possibilities that open source software offers for the creation of teaching content. Some of the slides used in this workshop we links and other information can be found here (some links may be broken [...]

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Building content

A one-hour lecture about “Digital Humanities”, part of the CHUCOL course at the

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Digital Humanities

A one-hour lecture about “Digital Humanities”, part of the CHUCOL course at the

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Computer-assisted data analysis in the Humanities

A one-hour lecture about “Digital Humanities”, part of the CHUCOL course at the

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Register variation in Modern Greek. The synchronic perspective

A one hour lecture exploring register variation in Modern Greek. Part of the Gr7 paper (MML Tripos, University of Cambridge). You can download here a PDF file with the slides used in the lecture. The short movie extract demonstrating the use of καθαρεύουσα can also be found here.

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καθαρεύουσα vs δημοτική. An audio-visual example

This short extract from the 1959 film «Ο Ηλίας του 16ου» demonstrates the use of καθαρεύουσα in formal settings. You can find a simple transcription in Greek below. Update 02.01.2010: Have a look at this example (from the Digital Archives of Greek Television – ERT), a more extreme example of καθαρεύουσα use from an institutional [...]

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