And now... CONGRATULATIONS! I hope you all had a good time with the reading and storytelling this week. In Week 1, you became bloggers, and now in Week 2, you are storytellers! Thank you for being willing to try these new things; I really appreciate all the work you are doing so that we have this blog network full of stories now.
Class Procedures and Reminders
Announcements. At the end of the week it's a good idea to review the week's announcements to see if you missed anything important. There's even an extra credit option for doing that: Review and Back Up. (You'll see it there on the list of all the various extra credit options which are available each week.)
Project Stack. As people turn in their project assignments, I'll add them to the stack. Then, while you are waiting on feedback from me, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. I've replied to all the projects people turned in on Wednesday, and I'll make sure to reply today to anything people turned in on Thursday, and hopefully anything from today also.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. Here is something super-cool from Savannah: she used Canva.com to make her own graphic to illustrate her story this week! You can read her story here: Sex and the Goblin City.
Announcements. At the end of the week it's a good idea to review the week's announcements to see if you missed anything important. There's even an extra credit option for doing that: Review and Back Up. (You'll see it there on the list of all the various extra credit options which are available each week.)
Project Stack. As people turn in their project assignments, I'll add them to the stack. Then, while you are waiting on feedback from me, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. I've replied to all the projects people turned in on Wednesday, and I'll make sure to reply today to anything people turned in on Thursday, and hopefully anything from today also.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. Here is something super-cool from Savannah: she used Canva.com to make her own graphic to illustrate her story this week! You can read her story here: Sex and the Goblin City.
And people are adding fun things to the Padlet (more about that)... this animated gif someone added today is so cute!
Twitter stream. Something beautiful from one of my favorite cartoonists, Ricardo Siri, a.k.a. Liniers. Reading is my yoga! (larger view)
Plus a fun writing cartoon from Dave Coverly, a.k.a. Speedbump. (larger view)
And here is some procrastination humor from the classic pair of tortoise-and-hare as imagined in the world of Poorly Drawn Lines. (larger view)
In addition to cartoons, I'm always looking for art at Twitter, like this gorgeous Kala-Bhairava manifestation of the god Shiva (now at the Victoria and Albert Museum).
From one of my Twitter favorites, The Smithsonian, I learned something new about this old Stephen Foster song: although it was later used in minstrel shows, it was originally written as an anti-slavery song: The Complicated Legacy of ‘My Old Kentucky Home.’
Some of you have already started reading the Ramayana in the Indian Epics class, so I wanted to share this amazing Ramayana video which I learned about from a student last semester who is studying ASL: Silent Ramayana.
And here's a thought to inspire your writing: Start writing!
February 5: Inayat Khan. Today marks the anniversary of the death of the Indian Sufi teacher, Inayat Khan, in the year 1927. Inayat Khan's teachings centered on Tawhid, or unity, which you can read about in this Wikipedia article. Inayat Khan was also trained as a music master, so in addition to sharing a knowledge of Sufism with the West, he also spread a knowledge of traditional Indian music:
This video gives an overview of Inayat Khan's life:
I also used Inayat Khan as a source for some of the stories in this book of Sufi tales, which is a reading option coming up in the Myth-Folklore class in Weeks 5 and 6: Tiny Tales of the Sufis. (Yes, it's another one of the 100-word story books!)
This video gives an overview of Inayat Khan's life:
I also used Inayat Khan as a source for some of the stories in this book of Sufi tales, which is a reading option coming up in the Myth-Folklore class in Weeks 5 and 6: Tiny Tales of the Sufis. (Yes, it's another one of the 100-word story books!)
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
