Class Procedures and Reminders
Check your progress. The class is now 20% over, so you might want to use this Chart to see if you are on track for the grade you want. If you are not on track, you can start doing more of the assigned work, and you can make up past missing work with extra credit. Plus, you can work ahead if you want to take some time off in this class when you have midterms in your other classes.
My schedule. I'm away from home today and then traveling home on Tuesday, so I may be slower than usual to respond to emails, but definitely send me any questions you have, and I should be able to get a reply to you by the end of the day if not sooner.
Project Stack. As usual, the stack will be huge on Monday, and I'll start working through the assignments in the order they were turned in. Meanwhile, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. Here's a fun graphic about growth mindset that Carlo shared in his blog post: My Growth Mindset.
Free Audiobook. Today's free book is A House Of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde. One of Oscar Wilde's many literary talents was his ability to write beautiful fairy tales!
Featured Storybook. This Storybook is a great example of how you can bring together stories from different cultures into a single project: Desperate Goddesses: Life on Mythological Lane. Izanami-no-Mikoto, the Japanese goddess of creation, has left the world of the living long behind, but she still watches over the desperate goddesses of Mythological Lane — Aphrodite, Pele, Ishtar, and Devi — and shares their stories with you.
India Video. And here's a Crash Course video, this time about India: Indian Pantheons.
India Item. Here is a word from India that we use in English: CALICO, as in calico cat. English "calico" is from the name of the city of of "Calicut" on the Malabar coast of India in Kerala.
Writing. Typos: we all make them! Before You Hit Sned.
Meanwhile, here is an inspiring talk from Peter Dinklage:
Growth Mindset Cats. Today's cat is a creative cat: I made a new thing.
Event on Campus. You can hear a performance of Schubert's Winterreise at 8PM in Pitman Recital Hall (details). Here's a recording at YouTube:
Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.
February 4: Sri Lanka National Day. On this day in 1948, the island nation of Sri Lanka gained independence from British rule. You can read more about Sri Lanka in this Wikipedia article, and the image below shows a mountain, Sri Pada, commonly called "Adam's Peak" in English, which supposedly holds the footprint of the Buddha (according to Buddhist tradition), the footprint of Shiva (in Hindu tradition) or the footprint of Adam (in Islamic tradition):
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
