Class Procedures and Reminders
Wednesday Reading. Because of the Election Day holiday yesterday, everybody got full credit for the Tuesday reading. The regular Wednesday reading is due today, and if you want to do two chunks of reading this week (A and B), that's great; you can declare the second chunk as Week 11 extra credit reading. The options this week are Krishna OR Jataka Tales in Indian Epics, while it's Native American stories in Myth-Folklore. I hope you will enjoy getting back into the reading-and-storytelling cycle this week! (Reading and writing are both good distractions if you are obsessively watching the news... at least it works that way for me.)
Project Stack. If you turned in your project on Saturday, you should have comments back from me, and I'll be working on Sunday items today. You can always check the stack to make sure I received your project.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. Jill used Canva to make this great quote graphic (making quote graphics is one of the Tech Tips you can do each week); more about the quote at Jill's blog post: Tech Tip Quote with Canva.
Twitter stream. And Jill's use of Canva connects up with a really cool use of Canva that I saw from a teacher at Twitter: 30-word autobiographies made into Canva graphics.
And here's Gurdeep of the Yukon, bringing music, dancing, and joy to Twitter. Because we can never have enough of these things, right? Check out Gurdeep's website for more: Building Cross-Cultural Bridges, Joy, Belonging and Inclusivity.
From our serene boreal forest, today's dance is for bringing joy, comfort and tranquillity to your heart, mind and soul! pic.twitter.com/eQOIXMn0B9
— Gurdeep Pandher of Yukon (@GurdeepPandher) November 3, 2020
And in that spirit, here's a marvelous musician and puppeteer from Central African Republic, Oliver Mobeli (puppetry is an ancient storytelling technology!):
Oliver Mobeli is a musician and puppeteer from Lobaye, Central African Republic. Here he is performing in 2017 in footage filmed by Orphé Zaza Bamoy. pic.twitter.com/KmLbCy7j1v
— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) October 31, 2020
Storybook. If you're looking for some bravery to get through the semester, you could look to this Storybook for inspiration: The Brave Hedgehog.
And here's a video about the medieval legend of the hedgehog, rolling in grapes to take home for its young ones: De Herinacio. On the Hedgehog, with English subtitles.
Positive thoughts from Grant Snider: Optimism (larger view).
And some thoughts about creativity as sketched by Sylvia Duckworth (larger view). When times get tough, I say: get creative!
October 17: Karva Chauth. Today is the Indian festival of Karva Chauth. You can find out more at Wikipedia, and this holiday was also the subject of an Indian Epics Storybook in a previous class: Lifelong Devotion: Tales of Love at Karva Chauth.
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
If you follow the Twitter today for Karva Chauth, you will see some extraordinary mehndi (henna tattoo) designs that women wear for the holidays, like these:
