Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. If you turned your project before 4PM on Sunday, you should have heard back from me now, and I'll keep working on the Sunday items today. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment.
Week 5 break. A lot of you are taking a break now in Week 5, while some of you took your break already last week (or earlier). If you're wondering just how much of the Week 5 work you should try to do, take a look in Canvas: you should have around 150 points or so at the end of Week 5. If you are short of that, try doing some of the Week 5 work this week in order to get caught up and ready to move on ahead with Week 6 next week. This chart can also help you keep track of your progress.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. Krishna did the extra credit Tech Tip about embedding YouTube videos in a blog post, so here's the video, and you can see the video embedded in that blog post here: Tech Tip: Embedding YouTube.
Twitter stream. This is a request from Muneeb Ata, an OU graduate (and former Myth-Folklore student!) looking for people to complete a survey:
Hey!! I NEED YOUR HELP. Looking for 18-26 year olds to take this survey
— Muneeb Ata (@MuneebAta) February 23, 2021
- takes ~2 min
- random $75 giveaway
- it’ll help me with some research 😁
- 1 random retweeter will get $10
- optional sign up for a potential (paid) discussion group
THANK YOUhttps://t.co/LrbTVBUMQh
And here's a gorgeous depiction of the Indian god of love with composite figures used to create the elephant:
Plus a very cool astronomical dragon from the Bodleian Library in Oxford:
And something about Canvas via Twitter. One of many reasons I do not rely on Canvas is that it gathers student data and instructor data and uses it without obtaining permission for that reuse: Hidden Canvas analytics violate student privacy (I've written about Canvas data here if you want to learn more.)
Plus a very cool punctuation infographic; yes, the comma has too much to do, which is why it can be confusing about when to use, or not use, a comma.
And check out these punctuation personalities:
February 25: George Harrison. Today marks the birthday of George Harrison in 1943; he died in 2001. You can read about his life and career in this Wikipedia article. Today is my birthday too, and when I was growing up I always felt special because I shared my birthday with one of the Beatles. Here is a recording of George Harrison performing Om Hare Om: Gopala Krishna: those of you in the Indian Epics class will recognize many of the names in this song from the Ramayana (Rama! Sita!), and other names are coming up next week in the Mahabharata.
Here is an interview with Ravi Shankar and George Harrison about one of their collaborative projects: Chants of India.
This recording is from that album; it is a version of the ancient Mangalam mantra:
Here is an interview with Ravi Shankar and George Harrison about one of their collaborative projects: Chants of India.
This recording is from that album; it is a version of the ancient Mangalam mantra:
