Saturday, January 26

Today is Saturday of Week 2. Welcome to the weekend! Here is a link to the Week 2 assignments for those of you who are finishing up Week 2 now, and Week 3 is ready to go too!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Tech Tips: Canvas. There are a lot of different Tech Tips options, and the Canvas tips can be really helpful at the start of the semester, like setting up your Canvas notifications.

Project Stack. As project assignment emails come in over the weekend, I'll periodically update the stack so you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. Carrying on with the tour of favorite places, here's one of Elyse's photos of Venice, Italy. Beautiful!

Free Book Online. Today's free book is The Grateful Elephant, and Other Stories by Eugene Watson Burlingame. These are more jataka tales from India:

Free Audiobook. Today's free audiobook is Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa. For more about this important Lakota writer, see below.

Featured Storybook. This Storybook, written in verse, is inspired by English nursery rhymes featuring the moon: Man in the Moon.

Myth Video. The Iliad is one of the reading options coming up next week, so here's a Trojan mash-up: Amy Burvall has combined The Trojan War with "Tainted Love" (more mash-ups at Amy's YouTube channel).

India Video. As you get ready for the Ramayana next week in Indian Epics, you might be interested in this Crash Course video: Rama and the Ramayana.

India Item. Here's a fun PDF online with lots of Ganesha stories for anyone who is curious about this popular Indian deity, the god of new beginnings: Stories of Lord Ganesha.

Writing. And here's some spelling humor... because you can never have too much spelling humor in English: Space Matters.

This thought comes from one of my favorite cartoonists, Mollycules (Molly Hahn) of Buddha Doodles: Choose to be optimistic.

Growth Mindset Cats. What you believe drives what you will learn: Changing your view can change your outcome.

In the spirit of growth mindset, this is a short video on The Biology of Positivity.

Event on Campus. You can see a performance of the Young Choreographers' Showcase tonight at 8PM in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center (details): The showcase features 12 pieces that tell stories each choreographer has a personal connection with.

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

January 26. Zitkala-Sa. Today marks the anniversary of the death in 1938 of the Lakota writer, Zitkala-Sa ("Red Bird"); she was born in 1876. You can read more about her life and career at Wikipedia. The University of Oklahoma Press recently published a biography of this amazing woman: Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkála-Šá.

Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.