Project Stack. As usual on Monday, the project stack is huge. Providing feedback on all the project assignments usually takes me all week, and I work through the assignments in the order they were turned in. While you are waiting on comments back from me, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.
Introduction comments. Everybody should have gotten at least a comment or two on their Introductions over the weekend, and I hope you are having fun meeting people in the class. I'm still commenting on the Introductions, and I hope to finish up this week; if not this week, then next week for sure.
Discovering Dragons. This Storybook is a great example of a narrative arc that stretches over all the story pages, and it also shows what you can do with a Wix website.
To Love and Lose: Hidimbi's Story. This dramatic Storybook is a nice example of the design features you can use at Google Sites.
The Range of the Mountains. You will also see some wonderful design features in this Storybook built with Google Sites.
The Mystical Horses of Hogwarts. This Storybook shows how you can blend traditional myths and legends with a modern storytelling frame. You'd be surprised what mythical creatures have ended up in the Forbidden Forest!
Looney Tunes Goes to India. This is another example of how you can find modern characters to retell traditional stories, including stories from India.
Why We Hate Humans. This Storybook also contains a podcast! The student created the website for Myth-Folklore, and she created the podcast version for her Media class in Gaylord.
No Birth, No Death: Transformation. This project features stories told in verse, along with illustrations drawn by the author.
Flood Myths. This is one of the Storybooks from last semester built with Twine to create a choose-your-own-adventure style. Twine is surprisingly easy to use; here are some Twine Tech Tips.
The Tales of Karna and Kunti. This Storybook is a great example of how a project can evolve: the student originally started out writing a Portfolio, but it turned out that all her stories were about Karna and Kunti, so she turned it into a Storybook in the end.
Making a Murderer: Lady Macbeth. This last one shows what happens when you shift the focus from hero to heroine, telling the story of Macbeth all from the perspective of the very dangerous Lady Macbeth.
Event on Campus. There will be a write-in for Me-Too stories at 7PM; the write-in location will be announced via Twitter (@metoo_ou) and Facebook (/oumtm). Here is the "Submission Box" with a deadline of February (details).
Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.
January 28: William Butler Yeats. Today, January 28, marks the anniversary of the death of the great Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, who died on this day in the year 1939. You can read more about Yeats' life and career in this Wikipedia article. The image below shows Yeats' gravestone in a cemetery in Drumcliff, County Sligo, Ireland; the simple inscription — "Cast a cold Eye / On Life, on Death. / Horsemen pass by!" — was what Yeats himself asked to have carved on the stone.
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
January 28: William Butler Yeats. Today, January 28, marks the anniversary of the death of the great Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, who died on this day in the year 1939. You can read more about Yeats' life and career in this Wikipedia article. The image below shows Yeats' gravestone in a cemetery in Drumcliff, County Sligo, Ireland; the simple inscription — "Cast a cold Eye / On Life, on Death. / Horsemen pass by!" — was what Yeats himself asked to have carved on the stone.
