IMPORTANT SCHEDULE NOTE. For those of you who will still be doing classwork during Week 15 (dead week), please be aware that it is on a different schedule: All final Week 15 assignments are due by Friday, December 9, at NOON. In addition, unlike previous weeks, you do not have the option to turn in your Week 14 Storybook assignment late. Instead, your Week 14 Storybook assignment MUST be turned in on time - that is, during the Week 14 grace period Monday morning, December 5, at the very latest. You have to get the Week 14 assignment turned in on time so that I can get comments back to you in time to complete your Week 15 assignment by Friday at noon!
Course evaluation at eval.ou.edu. (repeat announcement) The course evaluations for this course and your other courses are available now at the eval.ou.edu website. I hope you will take a few minutes to complete the evaluation - your feedback is incredibly helpful to me in making improvements to these courses, and it is also a big help to the College in general as they continue to develop the online course program. The online course program exists because students find it valuable to be able to take courses online, and any ideas you have for how the program can be improved will be very useful to the College as they continue (hopefully!) to offer these online courses. Plus, you might win a free iPad just for participating! (So far, no student in one of these courses has won an iPad... but maybe it will finally happen this semester: I think they should have a special iPad give-away just for online course students, IMHO.)
Final Grades. (repeat announcement) As you reach the points you need for your final grade in this class - 410 points for an A, 360 points for a B, 320 points for a C - let me know, and I'll record the letter grade for you there in the Desire2Learn Gradebook. You can mix and match whatever assignments you prefer to get the final points you need - but be careful as you make your choices, so that you don't accidentally come up short of the points you will need.
Storybook stack. As of Friday morning, there were a few Storybooks still in the stack; you can see here the contents of the stack. If you want to turn in a Storybook to get comments and points before the weekend, make sure you turn that in by noon on Friday. I'll try to reply to everything turned in on Friday - but, to be sure, please turn your Storybook in by noon.
Friday Events on Campus. See Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker at the Rupel Jones Theater! Performances are 8 PM Dec. 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and 3 PM Dec. 3, 4, 10, 11 (time/location/details). Find out more about this event and other events happening on Friday at the Campus Calendar online.
Storybook ballot results! Thanks to all of you who took the time to cast your ballot, and congratulations to the winners, to all the nominees, and to EVERYBODY who learned how to make your own website this semester: I hope that is a skill that will turn out to be useful to you in the future! :-)
MYTH-FOLKLORE
- Best Written Storybook: Corry - Finals Week: Death Notes
- Most Creative Storytelling Style: Whitnee - What Really Happened on the Titanic!
- Most Informative Storybook: Kelsey - Diaries of Four Courageous Women
- Most Original Storybook Topic: Courtney - Greek Therapy: The Myth in the Psychology
- Best Storybook Design: Adam - Strange Ways to Die
INDIAN EPICS
- Best Written Storybook: Whitney - Criminal Investigation: The Goddess Files
- Most Creative Storytelling Style: Grace - Dharma News Weekly
- Best Storybook Design: Lauren - Letters From My Indian Travels
