Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. As always, the project stack is huge on Monday! While you are waiting on comments back from me, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project form.
Canvas Poll. I wanted to say thank you to everybody who filled out the poll about Canvas data! The poll been up for two weeks, so I did a preliminary summary of the comments: Interim Canvas Poll Results. Cristina Colquhoun (she's at Oklahoma State University) will be having a data policy meeting with people at Instructure this week, and she is glad to have student comments as part of the discussion. Those talks are ongoing, so if any of you want to add your comments, that would be great: Canvas Survey. I'll be leaving the survey up until March 9 and then doing a final collection of the comments to share then.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. Here's another fun Wikipedia Trail; see April's blog post for all the cool details: From Edgar Allan Poe to The Kraken.
Writing. The cartoonist Tom Gauld is always having fun with smart storytelling styles; here's his take on an old Aesop's fable: The Ant and the Grasshopper. Click here for larger view.
Storybooks. And here's a Storybook that is full of creativity and fun: Rate My Rishi. It's Rate My Professor, but for the gurus of the Indian mythological tradition. This Storybook is a few years old, so it still has the "hotness" rating that Rate My Professor used to have.
Proverbs. And here's a proverb from Ghana: Two crocodiles don’t live in one pond.
Mindset Cats. Crocodiles might not get along, but cats do, and today's mindset cat knows that sometimes you have to ask for help.
Event on Campus. And speaking of help, the Writing Center is a fantastic resource; they can help you with any writing you are doing for your classes, along with other kinds of writing like statements-of-purpose for graduate school applications. You can see all their hours and locations at their website, including Mon-Tues-Wed hours in Bizzell.
February 24: Anant Pai. Today marks the anniversary of the death of Anant Pai in the year 2011. He was the visionary genius behind the Amar Chitra Katha comic books that many of you have been enjoying in the Indian Epics class. You can find out more about Anant Pai here, and below is a Google Doodle in his honor:
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
Event on Campus. And speaking of help, the Writing Center is a fantastic resource; they can help you with any writing you are doing for your classes, along with other kinds of writing like statements-of-purpose for graduate school applications. You can see all their hours and locations at their website, including Mon-Tues-Wed hours in Bizzell.
