Wednesday, October 10

Today is Wednesday of Week 8. Here is a link to this week's assignments. I hope you can finish up those review posts and move on to Week 9, using this week as a way to jump out in front of the deadlines, and maybe stay that way for the rest of the semester too!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned in something before 6PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now, and you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

Use the Writing Center. If you are working on research and writing projects this semester, the Writing Center is your friend, and it's also a great resource for this class. They will work with you at any stage of any writing project! Find out more: Writing Center locations and services.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Project Stream. As you experiment with your Google Site, keep in mind the power of the "cover" option for your header type; if you have an image that is on the tall side rather than wide, the cover display option can work perfectly, like here in Hoai-Quoc's Storybook: Ganesha Loves His Food.

Featured Storybook. Here is a very sweet Storybook inspired by someone's real dogs and their imagined adventures: The Tales of Garden Creatures. Cocoa and the other little dogs who live in the garden are at war with the pixies, trolls, and gnomes. These dogs have seen things going on in the garden that the humans do not even suspect!

Myth Video. Here's another Crash Course video: The Mwindo Epic.

India Video. Here's an Epified video about Angkor Wat: Vishnu in Cambodia.

India Item. Here's a proverb from Kashmir: Be encouraged, O pilgrim, though your destination is far off.

Time. Procrastination: it's not just a human problem! ET Procrastination.

Words. Here's a cool article about The Names of States. For example, Oklahoma: From a Choctaw word, meaning "red people," which breaks down as okla "nation, people" + homma "red." Choctaw scholar Allen Wright, later principal chief of the Choctaw Nation, coined the word.

Growth Mindset Cats. To grow, you must get unstuck, and to get unstuck, you must first unthink.

And here's a great talk from Scott Barry Kaufman about just what it means to be intelligent: A New Theory of Human Intelligence.

Event on Campus. Come to the Sam Noble Museum Auditorium tonight for a screening of the PBS Series "Native America" from 7PM to 9PM (details).

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

October 10: R. K. Narayan. Today is the birthday of the Indian novelist R. K. Narayan, who was born in 1906 (he died in 2001). This name might be familiar to those of you in the Indian Epics class because Narayan wrote English versions of both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Narayan was one of the most famous Indian novelists who wrote in English, and you can find out more about Narayan's life and work in this Wikipedia article. The image montage below is from an article celebrating the centenary of Narayan's birth: 100 years of RK Narayan, The Master Storyteller.

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