HAPPY THANKSGIVING BREAK! You have reached the end of Week 13! The Week 13 Read and Respond assignment (blog commenting) is available now as usual, but you have all of the coming week in order to complete that - it is not due until after Thanksgiving. Below you will find specific information about the Week 13 deadlines during this holiday break.
Friday, November 21. I have read and responded to all the Storybook assignments that were turned in by noon on Friday!
Saturday, November 22 - Friday November 28. You have a full week off for Thanksgiving in this class. The Week 13, Week 14 and Week 15 assignments are available for any of you who want to work ahead and finish up the class. I'll be answering email on and off during this week, but I will not be grading any Storybook assignments until class starts up again on Monday, December 1, when I will start reading and responding to the Storybook assignments in the order they were turned in. As you can see in the Grading Information page, you need 410 points to get an A, 360 points to get a B, and 320 points to get a C. When you get the number of points you need, you are done!
Saturday-Sunday, November 29-30 (AFTER THANKSGIVING). You need to make sure you finish up the Week 13 assignments on the weekend after Thanksgiving. You will have the usual end-of-week assignments due at that time: the Week 13 Internet assignment (nominating your favorite Storybooks!), the Week 13 Storybook assignment (revising your final story), and the Week 13 Blog Comment assignment, along with the usual extra credit assignments.
Thursday, November 20
Today is Thursday of WEEK 13 of the class. If you have not turned in your Week 12 Storybook assignment yet, you may still do that for partial credit. For those of you in Myth-Folklore or World Lit, Thursday morning, until noon, is the grace period if you forgot to do any of the assignments that were due on Wednesday. (Indian Epics has no Wednesday assignments, so there is no Thursday morning grace period.)
Storybook stack. There are still a few assignments in the Storybook stack. If you turned in your assignment on Monday or earlier, you should have comments back from me now. Assignments turned in on Tuesday or Wednesday are probably still in the stack. You can check the contents of the stack to make sure I have received your assignment.
My Thursday schedule. I'm on a slightly different schedule this week, since I have some unavoidable out-of-office appointments today, Thursday. That means I may be a bit more slow to respond to your emails today than usual - but if you send me an email during the day on Thursday, I'll definitely get back to you by the end of the day.
FRIDAY MORNING: Desire2Learn maintenance. On Friday, November 21, there is a scheduled Desire2Learn maintenance outage planned for 7AM until 8AM. You can check the IT Alerts page at alerts.ou.edu for additional information. Because there are so no assignments due on Friday, I have not made any adjustments to the regular assignments schedule for this planned outage - but if you will be making use of the Friday morning grace period to turn in any late Thursday assignments, you need to be aware of this scheduled outage.
Thanksgiving break. Please check yesterday's announcements for information about how the week-long Thanksgiving break affects your Week 13 assignments schedule.
November 20: Universal Children's Day. In 1954, the United Nations declared November 20 to be Universal Children's Day, an annual holiday in honor of worldwide understanding between children, while also promoting children's rights and welfare. You can read more about the holiday at the United Nations website. The image below is a poster from the Unicef proclamation of Universal Children's Day:
Storybook stack. There are still a few assignments in the Storybook stack. If you turned in your assignment on Monday or earlier, you should have comments back from me now. Assignments turned in on Tuesday or Wednesday are probably still in the stack. You can check the contents of the stack to make sure I have received your assignment.
My Thursday schedule. I'm on a slightly different schedule this week, since I have some unavoidable out-of-office appointments today, Thursday. That means I may be a bit more slow to respond to your emails today than usual - but if you send me an email during the day on Thursday, I'll definitely get back to you by the end of the day.
FRIDAY MORNING: Desire2Learn maintenance. On Friday, November 21, there is a scheduled Desire2Learn maintenance outage planned for 7AM until 8AM. You can check the IT Alerts page at alerts.ou.edu for additional information. Because there are so no assignments due on Friday, I have not made any adjustments to the regular assignments schedule for this planned outage - but if you will be making use of the Friday morning grace period to turn in any late Thursday assignments, you need to be aware of this scheduled outage.
Thanksgiving break. Please check yesterday's announcements for information about how the week-long Thanksgiving break affects your Week 13 assignments schedule.
November 20: Universal Children's Day. In 1954, the United Nations declared November 20 to be Universal Children's Day, an annual holiday in honor of worldwide understanding between children, while also promoting children's rights and welfare. You can read more about the holiday at the United Nations website. The image below is a poster from the Unicef proclamation of Universal Children's Day:
Wednesday, November 19
Today is Wednesday of WEEK 13 of the class. If you have not turned in your Week 12 Storybook assignment yet, you may still do that for partial credit. Wednesday morning, until noon, is the grace period if you forgot to do any of the assignments that were due on Tuesday.
Storybook stack. There are still quite a few assignments in the Storybook stack. If you turned in your assignment on Sunday or earlier, you should have comments back from me now. Assignments turned in on Monday or Tuesday are probably still in the stack. You can check the contents of the stack to make sure I have received your assignment. If the points you will be getting for the Storybook assignment(s) you have turned in will give you the points you need for your final grade in the class, let me know and I'll check on the points total for you! Please check last week's announcements for the option of skipping the Week 12/13 Storybook assignments if you do not need the points, and moving straight on to Week 14 instead.
Week 13: Thanksgiving. (repeat announcement) You are now in Week 13 of the class, and reading and blogging assignments due this week. The Week 13 Responding assignment will become available on Friday, November 21, as usual - but nothing is due until after Thanksgiving. YOU WILL HAVE ONE WEEK OFF: There are no assignments due between Friday November 21 until after Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving Day is November 27). Of course, you may want to choose to complete all the Week 13 assignments this coming weekend - it's up to you. The grace period for turning in your Week 13 assignments will be Monday, December 1, until noon. Then, Week 14 will start up on Tuesday, December 2. I am guessing that many of you will probably already be done with the class by the time Thanksgiving break arrives!
November 19: Jami. Today, November 19, marks the death of the great Persian poet, Jami, in the year 1492. Many consider Jami to have been the last of the Sufi master poets in a centuries-long tradition that includes another famous Persian poet, Rumi. One of Jami's greatest works was a novel-in-verse about Yusuf and Zulaikha, that is, about Joseph and Potiphar's wife, who goes by the name of Zulaikha in the Islamic tradition. You can read more about Jami in this Wikipedia article, which is also the source for this image from an illustrated manuscript of one of his mystical works, The Rose Garden:
Storybook stack. There are still quite a few assignments in the Storybook stack. If you turned in your assignment on Sunday or earlier, you should have comments back from me now. Assignments turned in on Monday or Tuesday are probably still in the stack. You can check the contents of the stack to make sure I have received your assignment. If the points you will be getting for the Storybook assignment(s) you have turned in will give you the points you need for your final grade in the class, let me know and I'll check on the points total for you! Please check last week's announcements for the option of skipping the Week 12/13 Storybook assignments if you do not need the points, and moving straight on to Week 14 instead.
Week 13: Thanksgiving. (repeat announcement) You are now in Week 13 of the class, and reading and blogging assignments due this week. The Week 13 Responding assignment will become available on Friday, November 21, as usual - but nothing is due until after Thanksgiving. YOU WILL HAVE ONE WEEK OFF: There are no assignments due between Friday November 21 until after Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving Day is November 27). Of course, you may want to choose to complete all the Week 13 assignments this coming weekend - it's up to you. The grace period for turning in your Week 13 assignments will be Monday, December 1, until noon. Then, Week 14 will start up on Tuesday, December 2. I am guessing that many of you will probably already be done with the class by the time Thanksgiving break arrives!
November 19: Jami. Today, November 19, marks the death of the great Persian poet, Jami, in the year 1492. Many consider Jami to have been the last of the Sufi master poets in a centuries-long tradition that includes another famous Persian poet, Rumi. One of Jami's greatest works was a novel-in-verse about Yusuf and Zulaikha, that is, about Joseph and Potiphar's wife, who goes by the name of Zulaikha in the Islamic tradition. You can read more about Jami in this Wikipedia article, which is also the source for this image from an illustrated manuscript of one of his mystical works, The Rose Garden:
Tuesday, November 18
Today is Tuesday of WEEK 13 of the class. For those of you who are working ahead, Weeks 14 and 15 are also available! That means all of the assignments are now available, and you can pick and choose based on the points you need to get to the grade you want to receive in this class. If you have not turned in your Week 12 Storybook assignment yet, you may still do that for partial credit.
Week 13 Internet assignment NOW AVAILABLE. Now that Week 13 has begun, the Week 13 Internet assignment is now available: you will be asked to nominate your favorite Storybook projects in various categories! You have all of Thanksgiving break to complete the Internet assignment. Then, after Thanksgiving, on Monday afternoon, December 1, after everybody has submitted their nominations, I will put up a ballot so that you can vote on your favorite Storybooks; the ballot will be available between December 1 and December 4 so that everybody can have a chance to vote.
Week 13: Thanksgiving. Week 13 begins today, Tuesday, November 18, and you will have the usual Tuesday-Thursday assignments due this week. The Week 13 Responding assignment will become available on Friday, November 21, as usual - but nothing is due until after Thanksgiving. YOU WILL HAVE ONE WEEK OFF: There are no assignments due between Friday November 21 until after Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving Day is November 27). Of course, you may want to choose to complete all the Week 13 assignments this coming weekend - it's up to you. The grace period for turning in your Week 13 assignments will be Monday, December 1, until noon. Then, Week 14 will start up on Tuesday, December 2. I am guessing that many of you will probably already be done with the class by the time Thanksgiving break arrives!
Storybook Stack. As usual at the beginning of the week, there are still LOTS of Storybook assignments in the stack. If you want to check and make sure your assignment is in the stack, you can see the contents of the stack here. If you need just the points for the Storybook assignment(s) you have turned in in order to finish up the class, let me know and I will put your assignments up at the top of the stack.
November 18: William Caxton. Today, November 18, is a remarkable day in the history of English literature because on this day, in the year 1477, William Caxton produced the first printed book in England! The first printed book in Europe, the famous Gutenberg Bible, had been printed in Germany in 1453, and it was about 25 years later that William Caxton started printing books in England. You can read more about William Caxton's life and career in this Wikipedia article. The first book that William Caxton printed was not a Bible, but a book about Greek mythology: Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. I am most interested in Caxton because one of the other books he published was the first printed edition of Aesop's fables in English in 1484! The image below shows the fable of the man who debated with the lion from Caxton's edition of Aesop:
Week 13 Internet assignment NOW AVAILABLE. Now that Week 13 has begun, the Week 13 Internet assignment is now available: you will be asked to nominate your favorite Storybook projects in various categories! You have all of Thanksgiving break to complete the Internet assignment. Then, after Thanksgiving, on Monday afternoon, December 1, after everybody has submitted their nominations, I will put up a ballot so that you can vote on your favorite Storybooks; the ballot will be available between December 1 and December 4 so that everybody can have a chance to vote.
Week 13: Thanksgiving. Week 13 begins today, Tuesday, November 18, and you will have the usual Tuesday-Thursday assignments due this week. The Week 13 Responding assignment will become available on Friday, November 21, as usual - but nothing is due until after Thanksgiving. YOU WILL HAVE ONE WEEK OFF: There are no assignments due between Friday November 21 until after Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving Day is November 27). Of course, you may want to choose to complete all the Week 13 assignments this coming weekend - it's up to you. The grace period for turning in your Week 13 assignments will be Monday, December 1, until noon. Then, Week 14 will start up on Tuesday, December 2. I am guessing that many of you will probably already be done with the class by the time Thanksgiving break arrives!
Storybook Stack. As usual at the beginning of the week, there are still LOTS of Storybook assignments in the stack. If you want to check and make sure your assignment is in the stack, you can see the contents of the stack here. If you need just the points for the Storybook assignment(s) you have turned in in order to finish up the class, let me know and I will put your assignments up at the top of the stack.
November 18: William Caxton. Today, November 18, is a remarkable day in the history of English literature because on this day, in the year 1477, William Caxton produced the first printed book in England! The first printed book in Europe, the famous Gutenberg Bible, had been printed in Germany in 1453, and it was about 25 years later that William Caxton started printing books in England. You can read more about William Caxton's life and career in this Wikipedia article. The first book that William Caxton printed was not a Bible, but a book about Greek mythology: Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. I am most interested in Caxton because one of the other books he published was the first printed edition of Aesop's fables in English in 1484! The image below shows the fable of the man who debated with the lion from Caxton's edition of Aesop:
Monday, November 17
Today is Monday. Week 12 of the class is now over. Monday morning, until noon, is the grace period if you forgot to do any of the assignments that were due on Friday/Saturday/Sunday. Week 13 will begin tomorrow - and those assignments are available now if you want to get started. The Week 14 assignments are also available now, too! (Week 15 will be available tomorrow.)
NOTE: For the availability of the upcoming Internet assignments in Week 13 and Week 14, please read the notes below!
Week 13 Internet assignment. The Week 13 Internet assignment will be available starting tomorrow, Tuesday, when Week 13 begins. I hope you will find this a fun assignment: you will be nominating your favorite Storybooks from the semester. After everyone has turned in their nominations (the assignment is due by the end of Week 13), I'll prepare a ballot with the Storybooks that get the most nominations, and you'll be able to vote on the best ones - the voting is not for a grade, but just for fun, as a way to give the people who worked really hard on their Storybooks some well-deserved recognition.
Week 14 Internet assignment. For the Week 14 Internet assignment, you will be completing a course evaluation online, much like the evaluation you fill out in the classroom for your regular classroom-based courses. As soon as the online course evaluation form is made available by the College of Arts & Sciences, I will let you know. The Week 14 Internet assignment will not be available until that online course evaluation becomes available; I'll keep you posted based on what I learn about when that will be.
Storybook stack. As always on Monday, I will have a huge bunch of assignments in the Storybook stack that were turned in over the weekend or on Monday morning. You can check the contents of the stack to make sure I received your assignment. I will be reading and replying to the assignments in the order they were turned in - if the points you will be getting for the Storybook assignment(s) you have turned in will give you the points you need for your final grade in the class, let me know and I'll check on the points total for you! :-)
November 17: Birth of "The Mouse." On November 17 in the year 1970, computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart was granted a patent for what would become the "mouse" interface for supplying data, manually, to a computer. In the patent application, he described the wooden box with its two metal wheels as an "X-Y position indicator for a display system," although he nicknamed it the "mouse" because it had a tail coming out one end that connected it to the computer system. Dr. Engelbart has not profited from his invention because the patent ran out in 1987, before the widespread use of personal computers made the mouse ubiquitous (although I remember first seeing someone using a mouse in the summer of 1984). You can read more about the history of the mouse in this Wikipedia article, which is also the source for this image, which shows Dr. Engelbart's mouse, circa 1970:
NOTE: For the availability of the upcoming Internet assignments in Week 13 and Week 14, please read the notes below!
Week 13 Internet assignment. The Week 13 Internet assignment will be available starting tomorrow, Tuesday, when Week 13 begins. I hope you will find this a fun assignment: you will be nominating your favorite Storybooks from the semester. After everyone has turned in their nominations (the assignment is due by the end of Week 13), I'll prepare a ballot with the Storybooks that get the most nominations, and you'll be able to vote on the best ones - the voting is not for a grade, but just for fun, as a way to give the people who worked really hard on their Storybooks some well-deserved recognition.
Week 14 Internet assignment. For the Week 14 Internet assignment, you will be completing a course evaluation online, much like the evaluation you fill out in the classroom for your regular classroom-based courses. As soon as the online course evaluation form is made available by the College of Arts & Sciences, I will let you know. The Week 14 Internet assignment will not be available until that online course evaluation becomes available; I'll keep you posted based on what I learn about when that will be.
Storybook stack. As always on Monday, I will have a huge bunch of assignments in the Storybook stack that were turned in over the weekend or on Monday morning. You can check the contents of the stack to make sure I received your assignment. I will be reading and replying to the assignments in the order they were turned in - if the points you will be getting for the Storybook assignment(s) you have turned in will give you the points you need for your final grade in the class, let me know and I'll check on the points total for you! :-)
November 17: Birth of "The Mouse." On November 17 in the year 1970, computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart was granted a patent for what would become the "mouse" interface for supplying data, manually, to a computer. In the patent application, he described the wooden box with its two metal wheels as an "X-Y position indicator for a display system," although he nicknamed it the "mouse" because it had a tail coming out one end that connected it to the computer system. Dr. Engelbart has not profited from his invention because the patent ran out in 1987, before the widespread use of personal computers made the mouse ubiquitous (although I remember first seeing someone using a mouse in the summer of 1984). You can read more about the history of the mouse in this Wikipedia article, which is also the source for this image, which shows Dr. Engelbart's mouse, circa 1970:
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