Sunday, September 1

Today is Sunday of Week 2. I hope you are having a great weekend! If you have not finished up the Week 2 assignments yet, today is the day to do that. Here is a link to the Week 2 assignments, and Week 3 is ready to go too!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. As project assignments come in, I'll periodically update the stack, so you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. Monday is a holiday, so on Tuesday, 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, that works; the Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 Declarations etc. are all available right now, with lots of Tech Tips to choose from.

Backup/Review. Another extra credit option I highly recommend is the Backup/Review option. You can learn how to back up your blog, plus it's a chance to review the past week's announcements to look for fun/useful items you might have missed. You can also check and make sure you are not missing anything in Canvas (if you did an assignment and forgot the Declaration, let me know and I'll record it for you).

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. In honor of today's football game, here is Sam riding the Schooner; find out more at her blog post.

Twitter Stream. There are a lot of great medieval manuscript accounts at Twitter; that's where I found this image of the Virgin Mary subduing Satan as depicted in a 14th-century manuscript:

Indian Epics Today. The character today is the goddess Ganga, who descended to earth in response to the prayers of Bhagiratha becoming the river Ganges. Find out more about Ganga.

India Video. Here's an Epified video about the goddess Ganga:

Storybooks. This is a Storybook, set in India, featuring Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Missing River.

Proverbs. Here is a Congolese proverb about rivers: No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.

Story of the Day. From rivers... to the ocean. This is a Brer Rabbit story that explains the origin of the ocean; it has to do with a quarrel between Brer Rabbit and Brer Lion: The Origin of the Ocean.

H.E.A.R.T.. Some of you will be doing the Week 3 reading today, so here's some inspiration from Game of Thrones: A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.

Mindset Cats. Today's mindset cat has a message for you about neuroplasticity: You are the architect of your brain.

HEART Video. Here is Paul Zak on the neurobiology of storytelling: Future of StoryTelling.

Event on Campus. I'm sure many of you are going to the game today, and the pre-game Party at the Palace begins at 3PM:

September 1: Saint Giles. Today is the holiday of Saint Giles; he lived as a hermit, with a deer as his only companion. You can find out more about his story at Wikipedia, and there is also a Ballad of Saint Giles and the Deer in the "Saints and Animals" unit of the UnTextbook; that's one of the reading options for Week 3 in the Myth-Folklore class:

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