Class Procedures and Reminders
Advice for future students. Remember the Advice Padlet? You saw that back at the start of the semester, and it is an option for the Week 14 Blog Comments as you'll see when you get to that this week. Any and all advice about the class is helpful, especially if you can think of something you would have wanted to know when the semester was getting started.
Project Stack. I've replied to all the projects in the stack for people who are waiting on my comments so that they can move on to the Week 14 project. Now I'll start reading and replying to the projects of people who are done with the class. Thank you for your patience while I get to everybody! Meanwhile, you can always check the stack to make sure I received your project.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. People have been writing some great microfictions, and here's one from Natalia: Dreams. (I hope people might be interested in contributing their microfictions to a class anthology; find out more here).
Some of the most important sources of American folktale traditions are the African storytellers brought to America as slaves, so I'm sharing this important new resource (and on the slavery now, see below): Enslaved.org.
Storybook. And on the subject of African stories in America, this is a Storybook I did last year for Myth-Folklore: Tales of Brer Rabbit and the Witch-Rabbit.
Words from wisdom from Awkward Yeti for your impulsive heart:
I was excited to see that Alice Wong is giving a (Zoom) talk at OU on December 3 (tomorrow); you can find out more at the OU Daily: Alice Wong in webinar to celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities. And here's a quick video about Alice Wong and her work:
December 2: Abolition of Slavery. Today is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, which means the abolition of bonded labour and debt bondage, along with child labor and human trafficking: out of the 24.9 million people trapped in forced labour, 16 million people are exploited in the private sector such as domestic work, construction or agriculture; 4.8 million people in forced sexual exploitation, and 4 million people in forced labour imposed by state authorities. Find out more at the UN website.
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
