There is an Orientation Week to help you learn about how this online class works, and you can find all the assignments here: Orientation Week assignments. I hope you will enjoy getting started in this class, and also that things will go well in your other classes today!
Class Procedures and Reminders
Two Classes | One Set of Announcements. These announcements are for BOTH the Myth-Folklore class AND the Indian Epics class. Each class has its own reading materials, but the weekly assignments are the same. So, these shared announcements are a way for those of you in Myth-Folklore to learn more about India (a great land of stories!), and also for the people in the Indian Epics class to learn about other storytelling traditions from the Myth-Folklore class.
Please call me Laura. I will be on a first-name basis with all of you, and I hope you will feel comfortable just calling me Laura. :-)
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. One of my favorite things to do in the announcements every day is to share something from the blog stream, and there are lots of great pictures showing up in people's favorite places posts. Hanna, for example, has been to Myanmar (!), and here is a picture of Dhammayangyi Temple at the historic city of Bagan; you can find out more at Hanna's post and this famous temple also has its own Wikipedia article.
Twitter stream. I'll also share a couple items from the Twitter stream each day in the announcements too. You probably saw lots of Bernie memes last week, and that idea of the mash-up is actually the key to this class as you'll learn later this week (mash-ups work in art, music, storytelling: all the creative spaces!). Here is a medieval Bernie:
Plus a Bernie in Mughal art from India: it's Begum Samru’s household in Old Delhi. (Find out more about this famous painting.)
And even Bernie on campus!
This weekend was the birthday of Django Reinhardt, one of my favorite musicians, and here's a birthday tweet from Dust-to-Digital:
Remembering Django Reinhardt, born on this day in 1910 in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium. Here he is with violinist Stéphane Grappelli and their band the Quintette du Hot Club de France performing "J'Attendrai" in 1938. pic.twitter.com/dP71rCc146
— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) January 23, 2021
And here's a video from Crash Course, which has a whole series on folklore and mythology; and this video relates to both classes: Indian Pantheons.
Plus a graphic to inspire you in your blogging: Blogging for Learning. Blogs are for documenting... reflecting... collecting... and sharing:
January 25. Each day I do an "on this day" item in the announcements, and every year on this night, people celebrate the great Scottish poet Robert Burns. The tradition is known as "Burns Night" (or "Burns Supper"), and you can find the poetry of Robert Burns online at the RobertBurns.org website. For more about Robert Burns, see Wikipedia, which is also the source for his portrait shown here:
And here's a short animation about Burns:
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
