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Friday, February 21
HAPPY FRIDAY! You have reached the end of Week 6. Here is a link to Week 6, 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
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 assignment.
Projects. Lots of people turned in work on their projects for Week 5, and I've been updating the class lists and slideshows periodically, and I'll keep working on that today too. Google slideshows are fun because you can embed them anywhere, so here's a slideshow of the projects in both classes!
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. I thought this was so cute: Brittany found a set of Mahabharata memes from another college class, and she included this one in her reading notes: rakshasa versus Bhima!
Myth-Folklore Video. Friday is just the end of the week, not the end of the world, but I thought it would be fun to share this Crash Course video today: The Apocalypse.
Indian Epics Today. The character for today is another of the divine fathers of the Pandavas; this time it is Indra, the storm-god, who is the father of the hero Arjuna. More about Indra, and here's a short Epified video about him:
Storybooks. You can also learn in this Storybook about the rivalry between Indra and the gods Vishnu and Shiva: Indra.
Event on Campus. There is a Zotero Workshop in Bizzell Library today at 11AM; if you have never used Zotero before, it is a powerful bibliography and research tool. Free software; highly recommended! (details)
February 21: Mother Language Day. This is a United Nations holiday celebrating everyone's mother language. The date has a special connection to South Asia, as the United Nations website explains: "The date represents the day in 1952 when students demonstrating for recognition of their language, Bangla, as one of the two national languages of the then Pakistan, were shot and killed by police in Dhaka, the capital of what is now Bangladesh."
