Class Procedures and Reminders
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Project Stack. If you turned in your project assignment before 6PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me by now, and I'll keep working on the Sunday assignments today. As always, you can check the stack to make sure your project is in the queue.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. Some of you have been playing with Twine, and I wanted to remind everybody that you can do branching stories with a simple link; that's all it takes to let the reader choose their own ending! Here's a great example of how Rapheal did that in a blog story this week: The Prince and the Farmer. The last line of the story has the choice ... and Rapheal figured out that he could backdate the alternate ending posts to the year 2000 so they don't show up on his blog homepage as spoilers!
Which ending would you like to read?
Storybooks. And here's an amazing Storybook from Indian Epics last year, an architectural fantasy (written by an architecture student!): The Konark Dialogue.
Words. Here's a word from mythology; it's the name of the day today, Thursday, or Thor's-Day, from the name of the Norse god Thor.
100-Word Stories. Today's story is an Aesop's fable: The Fox and the Dragon (click title for more info).
Mindset Cats. The mindset cat knows all about staying focused:
Event on Campus. CathleenDCahill will be giving a talk on indigenous feminists, the 19th Amendment and the politics of self-determination tonight at 7PM in the Dale Hall Tower Community Room (details).
