{"id":42079,"date":"2011-04-14T23:17:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T03:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=42079"},"modified":"2016-06-28T13:51:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T17:51:51","slug":"fun-is-a-critical-part-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/14\/fun-is-a-critical-part-of-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: &quot;Caesar dies, news at 11&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prof. Imber, Caesar and Videotape\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22405353?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Students in Associate Professor of Classics and Medieval Studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x150815.xml\">Margaret Imber<\/a>&#8216;s course &#8220;The Roman Civilization: The Republic&#8221; (CMHI 108) explored the civilization and history of ancient Rome from the foundation of the Republic around 510 B.C.E. until its collapse in civil war and its transformation into a monarchy under Julius Caesar and his nephew, Octavian. They wrote papers and footnoted their primary and secondary sources. They also had fun, &#8220;an incredibly critical part of learning,&#8221; says Imber. As a final project, the students produced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/22299597\"><em>Acta Diurna<\/em>,<\/a> a recreation of what Roman &#8220;television&#8221; would have been like during the night of Julius Caesar&#8217;s funeral. In the above piece, video storyteller James Dowling-Healey &#8217;12 of Hartford, Conn., explores experiential learning with Imber and her students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in Associate Professor of Classics and Medieval Studies Margaret Imber&#8216;s course&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,130,133],"tags":[10759,10834],"class_list":["post-42079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-collaboration","category-creativity","tag-classical-and-medieval-studies","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76256,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42079\/revisions\/76256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}