Friday, February 22

HAPPY FRIDAY! You have reached the end of Week 6. Here is a link to the Week 6 assignments, and if you are ready to get started on next week now, you'll find that list here: Week 7. The semester is racing along very fast now!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Designing your blog. As you visit other people's blogs, you will see different designs, and it's easy to change your blog layout anytime, choosing a new background image, etc. So if you are ready to customize your blog, there are some Tech Tips you can use. For example, if you are graduating this semester, you might want to add a graduation countdown widget to the sidebar!

Project Stack. I've read and replied to all the assignments turned in on Sunday, and I'll get through the rest of the Week 5 assignments in the stack today, plus as many of the Week 6 (and later) assignments as I can. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. I am such a fan of memes, and Daana has made some Ramayana memes: how cool is that? Here's her blog post: Meme Generator: Ramayana Moments. I like the gender flip in this one:

Free Book Online. Today's free book is Tales of Giants from Brazil by Elsie Spicer Eells.

Free Audiobook. Today's free audiobook is Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies by Im Bang and Yi Ryuk, and translated by James S. Gale.

Featured Storybook. Here's a fun mash-up: King Arthur in Japan. It starts with the sword in the stone... but then it goes far beyond any other Arthur legend you have read before, as Arthur finds himself, unexpectedly, in Japan.

Myth Video. Some of you in Myth-Folklore have been reading the jataka tales, and the people in Indian Epics know about jatakas too, So, here's a video about them: Jataka Tales of Buddha.

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India Video. And here's a comparative video from Epified: Indian and Greek Mythological parallels.

India Item. Plus a story-graphic from Amar Chitra Katha (creators of the Indian comic books) about the Origin of the Coconut.

Writing. Yes, it's true: punctuation saves lives.

And you might be needing this clock now that it's Friday: Whatever... I'm late anyway.

Growth Mindset Cats. This cat has some advice for the end of the week: Study hard, and then take a break.

This is an oldie-but-a-goodie from Professor Michael Wesch all about hypertext and the kinds of writing the digital world has made possible: The Machine is Us/ing Us

Event near Campus. At 7PM tonight there will be a SLAM Anti-Blackness Poetry and Spoken Word event at Second Wind Coffeehouse on Buchanan (details)

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

February 22: Rashi. Today marks the birthday in the year 1040 of the great French rabbi Rashi, the author of one of the most important commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. His name, Rashi, is an acronym: from Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, we get the nickname R-SH-I (it's kind of like the way we use the acronym names JFK or LBJ). You can read about his career in at Wikipedia. The image below comes from The Rothschild Miscellany:

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