Friday, September 1

HAPPY FRIDAY! You have reached the end of Week 2! Here is a link to the class calendar. After you finish this week's assignments, you can move on to Week 3; those assignments are ready to go whenever you are.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Blog Comments. This week (Week 2) you're commenting on the Week 1 Introduction posts. Then, for next week's commenting assignment you'll be commenting on the stories from this week (i.e., in Week 3 you comment on the Week 2 posts), and so on. If you are curious to read some of this week's stories and make comments now, you can do that too; there's an extra credit blog commenting option each week where you can just "jump in the stream" and comment on whatever posts grab your attention.

Project Stack. Thanks so much to all the people who turned in their Week 2 Project already; it is always fun to see what topics people are interested in! While you are waiting on comments back from me about your Project assignment, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

Famous Last Words. Since it's Friday, you might feel like doing a "Famous Last Words" post today, looking back on how the week has gone for you. Find out more in the extra credit section of this week's assignments.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Class Twitter. Yesterday was #FolkloreThursday at Twitter, and that made me realize it might be fun to include something from the previous day's Twitter each day here in the announcements. So, from yesterday's Twitter, here are sea creatures from old maps. You can see more @OnlineMythIndia.

English Spelling. This is not so much a spelling mistake as a typo... one that I have made many times: DAIRY v. DIARY.

Storybook Archive. This project is from the Myth-Folklore class: The Last of the Seapeople. This Storybook contains the tales of Shameil, last of the seapeople. The seapeople once thrived in the great waters of the world until humanity destroyed their habitat, and in the stories of the seapeople and their lost civilization there is a warning for us all.

Free Book Online: Today's free book is The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton with illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. See the Freebookapalooza blog for links and the table of contents The Bidpai stories from India have a lot in common with Aesop's fables!

Story of the Day. For a Friday fable, it's the story of The City Mouse and the Country Mouse. The illustration is by Milo Winter:

Video: The video for today is The Garden of Your Mind, a PBS remix video with Mister Rogers.

Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cat knows all learners are smart in their own unique ways. You can find out more at the Growth Mindset blog.

Event on Campus: There's a Foam Party on the roof of the Union parking garage from 8 to 11 PM (details). Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.

September 1: Saint Giles. Today is the holiday of Saint Giles; he lived as a hermit, with a deer as his only companion. You can find out more about his story at Wikipedia, and there is also a Ballad of Saint Giles and the Deer in the "Saints and Animals" unit of the UnTextbook, which is the source for this image:

Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.