Friday, September 28

HAPPY FRIDAY! You have reached the end of Week 6. Here is a link to the Week 6 assignments, and if you are ready to get started on next week now, you'll find that list here: Week 7. The semester is racing along as usual!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Designing your blog. As you visit other people's blogs, you will see different designs, and it's easy to change your blog layout anytime, choosing a new background image, etc. So if you are ready to customize your blog, there are some Tech Tips you can use. For example, if you are graduating this semester, you might want to add a graduation countdown widget to the sidebar!

Project Stack. I'll get through the rest of the Week 5 assignments in the stack today, and also as many of the Week 6 assignments as I can. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. Deborah did the new Slideshow Tech Tip! You can see a slideshow playing in her blog here: Tech Tip: Google Slides. Google Slides is one of my favorite Google tools, and it's easy to embed them in a blog post (or in a Google Site page).

Featured Storybook. Here's a fun mash-up: King Arthur in Japan. It starts with the sword in the stone... but then it goes far beyond any other Arthur legend you have read before, as Arthur finds himself, unexpectedly, in Japan.

Myth Video. Some of you in Myth-Folklore have been reading the jataka tales, and the people in Indian Epics know about jatakas too, So, here's a video about them: Jataka Tales of Buddha.

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India Video. And here's a comparative video from Epified: Indian and Greek Mythological parallels.

India Item. Plus a story-graphic from Amar Chitra Katha (creators of the Indian comic books) about the Origin of the Coconut.

Writing. Yes, it's true: punctuation saves lives.

And you might be needing this clock now that it's Friday: Whatever... I'm late anyway.

Growth Mindset Cats. This cat has some advice for the end of the week: Study hard, and then take a break.

This is an oldie-but-a-goodie from Professor Michael Wesch all about hypertext and the kinds of writing the digital world has made possible: The Machine is Us/ing Us

Event on Campus. There will be free showings of Incredibles II at 6PM, 9PM and midnight in Meacham (details).

Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.

September 28: Confucius. September 28 is a day traditionally assigned to the birthday of the Chinese philosopher Confucius in the year 551 BCE. You can read about Confucius in this Wikipedia article, and also in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy online. Confucius's philosophy was already famous in Europe in the 17th century, as you can see from this Latin edition of his works published in 1687 (click here for a larger view; if you are a student of Latin, you might see how much of the text you can understand!).

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