Saturday, October 3

Happy Weekend, everybody! Today is Saturday of Week 6. Here is a link to Week 6, and plus a link to Week 7  for those of you who are working ahead.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. On Friday, I replied to all the Week 5 projects in the stack. There were still some Week 6 (and beyond) projects turned in on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday that I did not get to, so those will be at the top of the stack on Monday. Meanwhile, you can check the stack to make sure I received your projects, and I'll update the stack periodically over the weekend.

Project Feedback. Now that the Portfolios and Storybooks are in place, the project feedback can really get started! When you get to the Week 6 Feedback assignment, you'll see a randomizer for the Storybooks and Portfolios. I hope you will enjoy seeing other people's projects — and your feedback now, early on in the project, will be very helpful as people revise and develop their stories.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. Here is some more beautiful microfiction from Eden who is using Canva to turn her microfiction stories into graphics! FInd out more at her post: Microfictions: Mahina and Tecciztecatl.



Twitter stream. I saw this gorgeous mural via the Library of Congress Twitter stream: Hispanic Heritage in Murals.


And here's something fascinating from The Met's Twitter stream: Navagunjara, a Universal Form of Krishna. It's Krishna in the form of Nine-Animal-Parts:




Storybook. And speaking of Krishna, here's a Storybook: Krishna: Lord of Infinity.


100-Word Stories. And speaking of infinity, here's a fun story about how a very small number becomes very large: Tenalirama and the Chessboard.


Plus a number for the month of October via Legonium:


And a new cartoon from Grant Snider:


And, finally, a video to ponder from Aeon: Stranger Aliens.


October 3: Gore Vidal. Friday, October 3, marks the birthday in the year 1925 of the American author, Gore Vidal. You can read more about Gore Vidal's life and career in this Wikipedia article. My favorite of his novels is his historical novel Julian, which is about the 4th-century emperor Julian, nicknamed "Julian the Apostate," the last of the pagan emperors of Rome.


Here's a trailer for a documentary about Gore Vidal's life:



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