HAPPY FRIDAY! Today is Friday of Week 3. Here is a link to Week 3, and if you're ready to get a head start, Week 4 is available too.
Class Procedures and Reminders
Other people's stories. For the Week 3 blog comments, you will be reading people's stories. You'll see stories from Week 2 and Week 3, plus some stories from Week 4 (because people are working ahead), and also some microfictions too. If you are curious and want to read more stories, you can always do the extra credit commenting option that's available each week. Reading other people's stories can be a great way to ignite your own creativity!
Project Stack. Yesterday I read all the Week 2 projects that were in the stack. Today I'll be working on the Week 3-4-5-etc. projects. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. Here's some more gorgeous art from a blog post; this is the Cyclops image that Cady found to use with her story. You can find the story here: Odysseus and Polyphemus.
Twitter stream. It was #WomenInScience Day yesterday, and I thought this science-and-science-fiction tweet would be a good one to share: Astrophysicist Erin Macdonald on Women in Science Day.
I know there are some Alice-in-Wonderland fans in the class too, so I wanted to make sure to share this from the Victoria and Albert Museum and their Alice exhibition: Curiouser and Curiouser.
You are probably not going to want to go dance in the snow... but Gurdeep never stops dancing in the Yukon:
Making snow, dancing Punjabi Bhangra, and celebrating nature in -45ºC (-55ºC with windchill) frigid-cold in the Yukon's wilderness today. Sending this positivity, joy and hope across Canada and beyond.
— Gurdeep Pandher of Yukon (@GurdeepPandher) February 10, 2021
(Ice on my beard made me look like a total arctic/polar person!) pic.twitter.com/ocU7f7Tucv
Here's a fun owl-mood chart for the end of the week (and there's a cat-mood chart in the extra credit Check-In and Connect too).
Here's something from the OU Twitter stream... and Canvas pronouns are included in the Canvas Tech Tips for this class too!
GEC interns explain how to enable pronouns in Zoom & Canvas, and why it’s important! pic.twitter.com/Yg2rhz8bum
— OU Gender + Equality (@GEC4OU) September 10, 2020
Here's a fun cartoon from Fowl Comics about the hard work that it takes to develop your art:
For more inspiration, here is a wonderful StoryCorps video about astronaut Ron McNair (and maybe we even have some McNair Scholars in class this semester; it is one of my favorite programs at OU!):
Finally, some punctuation humor: The Demicolon.
February 12. It's Chinese New Year's today, and so begins the Year of the Ox! You can find out more at Wikipedia. In addition to the famous cycle of animals, there is also a cycle of elements, so this is a metal year: the Year of the Metal-Ox. Happy New Year!
A video with more about the ox:
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
