Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. As project assignment emails come in, I'll periodically update the stack, so you can check the stack to make sure I received your email. I'll start reading and replying to items in the stack when I get back to work on Tuesday after the Labor Day holiday.
Canvas Tech Tips. I mentioned Canvas notifications in yesterday's announcements, and there are other Canvas Tech Tips too. If you want to do a bunch of Tech Tips now, you can; the Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 Declarations etc. are all available in Canvas right now.
Backup/Review. Another extra credit option I highly recommend for any week is the Backup/Review option. You can learn how to back up your blog (and later on your project), plus it's a chance to review all the announcements of the past week to look for fun/useful items you might have missed.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. Those of you in the India class saw last week how the Jataka stories convey a moral lesson, and in this story Hoai-Quoc came up with a "Rock-Paper-Scissors" Jataka to teach an upbeat lesson of his own: Everyone Wins: Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Myth Video. This Khan Academy video is about The Tower of Babel, which is one of the reading options in Myth-Folklore for Week 3.
Myth Item. Another of the reading options for Myth-Folklore next week is Homer's Iliad, so I wanted to share this Death in the Iliad infographic.
Writing. This is one of my all-time favorite punctuation graphics: Let's eat boys!
And now that you have successfully reached the end of Week 2, take a moment to breathe: Breathing Recalibration Station.
Growth Mindset Cats. The weekend is also a time to reflect.
Sleep is good too, and maybe this video will persuade you to use the Monday holiday to catch up on your sleep: What would happen if you didn’t sleep?
Event on Campus. This will be the last week of the Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art exhibit at the FJJ Museum of Art, so go by and visit if you have a chance (details); the exhibit closes on September 9. This piece, "Water Jar" by Joanna Underwood Blackburn, is one of the items in the exhibit:
Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.
September 2: J.R.R. Tolkien. Today marks the death in 1973 of the great English author, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who is best known for creating the marvelous fantasy world of Middle Earth, in which he set his novel The Hobbit and the trilogy known as Lord of the Rings. You can read about Tolkien's life and career in this Wikipedia article, which is also the source for this drawing that shows Tolkien's own design for the covers of The Lord of the Rings trilogy:
