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. On Monday, I'll start reading and replying to the assignments in the order that they were turned in. That means the sooner you turn in your project assignment, the sooner you will get comments back from me.
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 the past week's announcements to look for fun/useful items you might have missed.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. Some of you are thinking about elephant-themed projects, so I wanted to share this picture from Meghan's favorite place post: it's a photo she took of an elephant in the Addo Reserve in South Africa.
Free Audiobook. Today's free audiobook is Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa. (This book is one of the reading options for Myth-Folklore in Week 3 and Week 4 also!)
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 catch up on some sleep this weekend: What would happen if you didn’t sleep?
Event on Campus. In tribute to the victims of the Holocaust on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at 1PM today there will be a guided tour of the David Friedman exhibit including his "Because They Were Jews!" series (details).
January 27: Holocaust Remembrance Day. January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, has been designated by the United Nations and many other countries as a day in remembrance of those who died in the Nazi Holocaust of World War II. The person I hold in my special remembrance for this day is Janusz Korczak (Wikipedia), a visionary educator who organized the Jewish orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942, the Nazis raided Korczak's orphanage and sent the children to the death camp at Treblinka. Although Korczak's Polish friends begged him to escape and hide with them for the rest of the war (Korczak had been a famous teacher and radio celebrity in Poland before the war), he would not leave the children, and so he died together with them at Treblinka. This image below shows the Yad Vashem Memorial for Korczak and his children:
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
