Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. If you turned your project in on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now. I'll finish the rest of the Week 4 project assignments that are in the stack today for sure, and I will reply to as many of the Week 5 and Week 6 assignments as I can. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project. (And anything left in the stack at the end of the day Friday will be at the top of the stack for Monday.)
Week 5 break. Because of the winter storm last week, the whole Week 4 / Week 5 break became a little more confusing I know, but there's an easy way to check and see if you need to do any end-of-week assignments for Week 5: just go to Canvas and check your total points. If you have around 150, you're good: no need to do any Week 5 end-of-week assignments if you want to have this weekend off. If you have fewer than 150 points in Canvas, then do some Week 5 work now to fill that gap. I hope that makes sense, and if you have any questions about that, just let me know.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. Mangoes are a fruit you often find in Indian folktales (and even in the epics, like Hanuman and the famous sun-mango), and I really like this beautiful photo of mangoes that Daphne found to use in her Bengali folktale reading notes. Gorgeous! Plus here is a random factoid: the word "mango" is a south Indian word that we have adopted in English. For details, see this post: Tamil Word in English: Mango.
Blog stream. Mangoes are a fruit you often find in Indian folktales (and even in the epics, like Hanuman and the famous sun-mango), and I really like this beautiful photo of mangoes that Daphne found to use in her Bengali folktale reading notes. Gorgeous! Plus here is a random factoid: the word "mango" is a south Indian word that we have adopted in English. For details, see this post: Tamil Word in English: Mango.
And here's something fun from another wonderful OU faculty member, Prof. Heddy in the Ed School:
If you're experiencing Zoom fatigue during these pandemic semesters, here's why: Nonverbal Overload: Causes of Zoom Fatigue.
Another example of how punctuation saves lives:
Getting ready for the weekend: breathing gifs from Nathan Pyle; see the thread for more:
here is a thread of animations I made for anyone who could use some deep breaths pic.twitter.com/ZZvxhCvQqF
— Nathan W. Pyle (@nathanwpyle) June 14, 2019
As you're breathing, you might even want to use a mantra, which is a word that English has taken from one of the ancient languages of India: Sanskrit. More about the word mantra.
And for your viewing pleasure, here's a Crash Course video about Mythological Horses:
In the spirit of written-text traditions, here's a beautiful new open-access book you can read online: Continuous Page: Scrolls and Scrolling from Papyrus to Hypertext.
February 26: Purim. Yesterday evening at sunset marked the start of the Jewish holiday of Purim which celebrates the events described in the Book of Esther in the Bible. Esther saved her people from the evil Haman, who was plotting to destroy them. You can read more about Purim in this Wikipedia article. And for your viewing enjoyment, here is Raise Your Mask - Purim by the Ein Prat Fountainheads in Israel:
And more cats: this is a hilarious animated-cat-gif retelling of the Book of Esther: The Entire Story Of Purim, As Told By Cat GIFs. Here are a couple of my favorites:
Meet King Ahasuerus
King Ahasuerus was not pleased
Check out the Buzzfeed article for more. :-)
And you can also visit the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
And you can also visit the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
