Class Procedures and Reminders
Thanksgiving break. If you have looked ahead to the Week 13 page, you saw that there is a whole week off for Thanksgiving in this class. I would urge everybody to turn in your Week 12 project sooner rather than later, especially if you want comments back from me before Thanksgiving break. I'm guessing a lot of people are going to want to finish up the class during Thanksgiving break, and I'll do my best to keep up with you! I'll have more to say about the way Week 13 works in the Monday announcements.
Project Stack. Yesterday, I replied to all the Sunday assignments, and I'll reply to the rest of the Week 11 projects today, along with as many of the Week 12 assignments as I can get to by the end of the day today. 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.
Extra Credit. Friday is always a good day to take a look back over the week's announcements to see if you can find anything fun/useful you might have missed, and you can write that up for a Backup/Review extra credit. Find out more in the extra credit section of this week's assignments.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Class Twitter. From yesterday's Twitter @OnlineMythIndia, here is the winner of the Neustadt Prize awarded by World Literature Today at OU: Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat . What exciting news! You can find out more at Danticat's website.
Storybook Archive. This project is from the Myth-Folklore class: The Vintner's Tale. The vintner is not someone that Chaucer included in his version of the Canterbury Tales . . . but if you want to find out what really happened on that pilgrimage, you need to read the vintner's tale!
Story of the Day. Today's story is from the Buddhist Jataka tales: The Foolish Monkeys. A gardener thinks he can trust the monkeys to help him with the gardening; this was not a good idea.
Video: The video for today is another one of Amy Burvall's mash-ups: Beowulf ("99 Luftballons" by Nena). Find out more at Amy's YouTube channel.
Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cat knows the learning never stops: The best projects are open-ended. You can find out more at the Growth Mindset blog.
Event on Campus: Come to the Rupel J. Jones Fine Arts Center at 11AM for OU’s Contemporary Dance ensemble perform adaptations Marilyn Nelson poetry, all part of this year's Neustadt Festval (details). Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
