Wednesday, April 24

Today is Wednesday of Week 14. Here is a link to the Week 14 assignments (for many of you, today will be a reading day: enjoy!), plus a link to the Week 15 assignments. It's Dead Week next week, but there's a full week of assignments available if you need to make up for having missed some work earlier in the semester.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Advice for future students. Yesterday in the announcements I mentioned the Advice Padlet, and some people already added their suggestions, which is so cool to see: thank you! That is all part of the Week 14 Blog Comments. Now there will be advice from last semester's students (down at the bottom), with new advice from you all up at the top!

Project Stack. If you turned in an assignment before Sunday noon, you should have comments back from me, and I'll keep working on the Sunday assignments today. Meanwhile, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. I thought this was such a fun growth mindset graphic from Baylor, and I definitely agree: Fake it till you make it: be confident and own it! 

Free Book Online. Today's free book is The Long Grass Whispers by Geraldine Elliot. These are stories of the Ngoni people who live in southeast-central Africa.

Free Audiobook. Today's free audiobook is The White Elephant and Other Tales from India by Georgene Faulkner, with illustrations by Frederick Richardson.

Featured Storybook. This Storybook features a fabulous variety of storytelling styles: Babylonian Tales: Book of Nabu. The ancient god of writing, Nabu, has taken the stories of old Babylon and retold them in new ways for the new world of today.

India Video. Here's a beautiful video about India and Pakistan and the legacy of the Partition: Reunion. Very much worth watching in these tense times:

India Item. Here's another Amar Chitra Katha Fact Sheet, this time about the god Indra.

Myth Video. Here's a Crash Course video about creation myths: Social Orders and Creation Stories.

Myth Item. And here is a proverb from China: A weasel comes to say Happy New Year to the chickens. Watch out, chickens! It's like the fox guarding the hen-house, but with a weasel instead.

Here's a lovely cartoon from Grant Snider about hope: Never Quit Hoping.

And here's something to ponder as you ponder the end of the semester... and perhaps graduation too: Constant Change.

Growth Mindset Cats. Today's cat reminds you to never stop asking questions.

And here's some advice from Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about.

Event on Campus. For Green Week today, enjoy some free smoothies and yoga this morning from 9AM-11AM on the South Oval! (details)

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

April 24. This is the birthday of the Library of Congress! The Library was created in the year 1800 when President John Adams signed a law to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress." Find out more at Wikipedia. This shows the Reading Room:

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