Class Procedures and Reminders
Extra Credit. While you are doing the reading, you might see something you are curious about: if so, do a Wikipedia Trail! Find out more in the extra credit section. Another extra credit option might be to do a Tech Tip like learning how to use SoundCloud for adding audio to your blog or website; you can see how Anhthu did that below.
Project Stack. If you turned in something before 3PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me, and you can check the stack to make sure I received your email. I'll keep working on the Sunday afternoon items today!
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Project Stream. Here's something really cool: Anhthu used SoundCloud to record her latest Storybook story and then she embedded the recording in the webpage for the story: Origins of Vietnam.
Free Audiobook. Today's free book is Manx Fairy Tales by Sophia Morrison (1911). You can read more about the Isle of Man and Manx culture at Wikipedia.
Featured Storybook. In addition to audio, you can also include music in your projects, like here: Devis of the Vedic Age. It's the battle of the bands: goddesses versus asuras and rakshasas... and each story has musical accompaniment!
India Video. More Indian music: here is Tushar Lall and the Indian Jam Project doing their rendition of Harry Potter theme music (and check our their YouTube channel for more).
And one more musical item: a musical mash-up, where Michael Jackson's Don't Stop meets the Bollywood hit song Chaiyya Chaiyya, featuring Vidya with Sam Tsui, and Shankar Tucker on clarinet. (The Chaiyya Chaiyya song came to Hollywood too; Spike Lee used it for the soundtrack of Inside Man.)
Myth Video. Here's the goddess Hera as a modern housewife: The Mundane Goddess. (Yes, that's Uma Thurman!)
Myth Item. This is a fun word from mythology: ATLAS. Read the blog post to find out how this Greek god gave his name to a book of maps.
Language. English and the languages of northern India are related, belonging to the Indo-European language family, branches on the same language tree as depicted here by Minna Sundberg:
Writing. I hope this class has inspired you to try different kind of writing experiments: Why We Need Creative Writing. And there's still time for more writing experiments to come!
Growth Mindset Cats. This cat knows that being different can give you power.
I was inspired to make that cat by this graphic from sketchnote guru Sylvia Duckworth: 10 Things We Can Learn from Superheroes.
And here's a fun video about creativity inspired by one of Islam Abudaoud's graphics: 29 Ways to Stay Creative (click that link to see the graphic).
Event near Campus. Tonight is the first in a series of Poetry Month events in Norman, with a reading by Eileen Tabios at 7PM at The Depot on 200 S. Jones (details).
April 10. Today marks the birthday of Montague Summers in 1880, an English clergyman and writer known for his books on werewolves, witches, and vampires. You can learn more about his life and career at Wikipedia, and you can find his book The Vampire: His Kith and Kin online. In addition, he translated the Latin Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century manual for witch hunters. Here is the title page of a Latin edition of the Malleus:
