Wednesday, February 17

Today is Wednesday of Week 4, and because of the terrible weather, campus is closed again today, and classes are canceled. With the rolling blackouts and also Internet outages, I know some of you may be out of action this week, and that's fine: you can take some/all of this week off if needed and then get going again with Week 5. For those of you who can do the regular work this week, I'd urge you to go ahead and do that, and then you can take time off later. Here is a link to Week 4.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned in your project before noon on Sunday, you should have comments back from me. I'll keep working on the Sunday items today; as always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project.

See yesterday's announcements for more information about the week-off points in the Canvas Gradebook and also for information about comments on your blog posts.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. Sara came up with a super-cute storytelling style for Week 4! Check this out: What It was Like to be an Animal on The Ark, A Series of Yelp Reviews. Reviews from lioncubz1234, wholetthedogsout, and even theoneandonlyog00.


And for those of you who only know the Biblical Noah, you might not know about Og the Giant; you can read that story here: The Giant of the Flood.



Twitter stream. A Spiderman meme for the moment in Oklahoma and Texas:


Some of you may know Sarah Olzawski from the History department; she shared some beautiful frost pictures:


And something beautiful from the Public Domain Review for you fans of Dante out there: 14th-Century Illuminations for Dante's Divine Comedy. 


Plus something to inspire your reading this week: a poster from Maurice Sendak!


And some punctuation humor if you are writing today:




And European mythology from Epic Rap Battles: Zeus vs. Thor (be warned: it's hilarious but NSFW):


February 17: Loreena McKennit. Today marks the birthday in 1957 of the Canadian musician Loreena McKennit. Happy birthday, Loreena! Loreena has done wonderful work with traditional ballads and melodies from Celtic and Middle Eastern traditions and has created a distinctive wonderful style all her own. You can read about her work and career in this Wikipedia article, and you can listen to her marvelous rendition of the traditional ballad, The Highwayman, here at YouTube.com.



Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
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