Wednesday, November 1

Today is Wednesday of Week 11. The second part of the reading is due today, and I hope you are getting some good ideas for a story you want to tell this week in your blog! Here is a link to this week's assignments.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned in an assignment before 3PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now, and I'll keep making my way through the stack 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. The blog commenting and project feedback assignments for this week are both ready to go, and there is always the extra credit commenting option too! 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 something from the OU Daily: Scariest Stories from the OU Ghost Tour.

Reading. If you are reading today, I thought you might enjoy these whimsical yoga poses for readers.

Storybook Archive. This project is from the Myth-Folklore class: The Thin Line Between Tragedy and Comedy. In this "choose-your-own-adventure" Storybook, you get to decide the fates of Romeo and Juliet. Can they escape the doom that Shakespeare imagined for them? And will that simply lead to another tragic ending, or perhaps to a happily-ever-after ending worthy of comedy?

Free Book Online: Today's free book is Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel. See the Freebookapalooza blog for links and the table of contents. The illustrations are by J. Lockwood Kipling who was, yes, the father of Rudyard Kipling!

Story of the Day. Today's story is from Aesop's fables: The Crow and the Pitcher. This crow figures out how to take a drink, and crows really do this (see video below).

Video: The video for today goes with that Aesop's fable! Physics-Minded Crow. Find out more at Clever Crows.

Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cat is not afraid of making a mess: Learning is messy. You can find out more at the Growth Mindset blog.

Event on Campus: The Asian Food Fair will take place from 12:30-2:30 on the South Oval (details). Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.

All Saints Day - All Souls Eve. The reason Halloween was celebrated yesterday, on October 31, is that it was the "Eve of All Hallows" (Hallow-Evening), i.e. the Eve of All Saints, which is celebrated today, November 1. Today is also the eve of All Souls Day which is celebrated on November 2. These holy days are known as Days of the Dead, which you can read about at Wikipedia. The image below is a Catrina, a tradition for Día de los Muertos originally created by Jose Guadalupe Posadas:

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