Today is Sunday of Week 6, and if you have not finished up the Week 6 assignments, today is the day to do that! You can also get started on Week 7, which is definitely a good idea if you will be out of town next weekend for the big game. (All the Week 7 assignments, including comments and feedback, are available now.)
Class Procedures and Reminders
Extra credit. There are all kinds of extra credit options which I hope can be fun and/or useful, and that's another good way to get ready if you are going to be out of town next weekend. There are lots of extra credit options, like the Tech Tips for example, or the Back-Up and Review option to check on your class progress so far.
Project Stack. The sooner you turn in your project today, the sooner you'll get comments back from me next week, and I'll update the stack periodically today so that you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. I was excited to see a Twine story-game in Cody's blog post: Please pick a number. If you want to learn how to create a Twine story-game, you can use the Twine Tech Tips to do that; it's easier than you might think! Here's Cody's game:
Featured Storybook. There are some new dragon projects this semester, and there have been dragon projects in past semesters also, like this one: Legends of Fire. Deep in the woods is a tavern, and sitting around a table in that tavern are some wild-looking men: dragon-hunters! Listen to the stories of what happened when they confronted mighty dragons all over the world, from Scotland to Turkey to India.
India Video. Here is an Epified video on Weapons of the Gods.
India Item. This is just one of many comic books on Reserve for Indian Epics in Bizzell: Ganga: The Divine Beauty. The cover shows the descent of the river Ganga to earth, landing on Shiva's head:
Writing. If you've ever wondered why commas are so confusing, take a look at this chart: The 15 Punctuation Marks. The poor comma has a lot of different jobs, more than any other punctuation mark!
Some advice for today, or any day: What You Do Today.
Growth Mindset Cats. What to do? Try doing something creative every day.
And as we move into the Fall season, here's a lovely Brian Eno video about the passage of time: Just Another Day.
Event on Campus. Today at 3PM the Oklahoma Festival Ballet will offer their final performance of a ballet tribute to Maya Angelou’s poem "Still I Rise" in the Elsie C. Brackett Theatre (details).
September 30: Rumi. Today is traditionally regarded as the birthday in the year 1207 of the Persian mystical poet Rumi. To learn more about this remarkable 13th-century poet, surely one of the greatest poets in the history of the world, see Wikipedia, along with quotations from Rumi (in both Persian and English) at Wikiquote. The image below shows Rumi with his disciples in a 16th-century manuscript from Baghdad, and below is a video performance of his poetry in Persian:
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