WEEK 2 WEEKEND: February 6-7

HAPPY WEEKEND! I hope things are going well in all of your classes, and also that you are getting into a good routine for the semester. If you have not finished up the Week 2 assignments yet for this class, this weekend is the time to do that. Here is a link to Week 2, and Week 3 is ready to go too!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned in a project on Friday before 2PM, you should have gotten comments back from me; anything that came in later than 2PM will be at the top of the stack for Monday. Over the weekend, as project assignments come in, I'll periodically update the stack, so you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. Then on Monday I'll start reading and replying to the assignments in the order that they were turned in (so the sooner you turn that in this weekend, the sooner you'll get comments back from me).

Comments. You should all start getting comments on your Intros this weekend as people start doing the Week 2 comment assignment. You can do the Week 3 comment assignment too if you want; that randomizer is full of stories now! I hope you will enjoy learning about each other and sharing your stories each week.

Check-in and Connect. An extra credit option I highly recommend is the check-in and connect; people have added some really nice things to the Padlet! If you want to add a YouTube, just paste in the YouTube address and the video will display right there in the Padlet.


The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. Check out this gorgeous work of art in Jennifer's Indian Epics brainstorming post: Buddha Head Sits in Growing Tree Roots from Wat Mahathat in Thailand. Find out more.


Twitter stream. I know people are probably feeling Zoomed out, but there is going to be a beautiful event coming up on February 18 with OU professor Honorée Fanonne Jeffers; find out more: Poetry as Protest.


Something very cool from the British Library: The curious tale of Solomon and the Phoenix.


And something from India in the New York Times Science section:


And be sure to check out #ColourOurCollections ... free coloring books you can download from libraries and museums around the world with drawings from Ovid's Heroides, illustrations for the Greek poet Anacreon, and the mermaid Melusine, plus so many more; explore the hashtag for all the coloring books.




And the cold Yukon weather is not going to stop Gurdeep of the Yukon: he's still dancing! 


February 6: Manutius. Saturday marks the anniversary of the death of Aldus Pius Manutius in the year 1515. Manutius founded the Aldine Press of Venice in 1494, and he was an innovator in typography, too; most famously, he invented the use of printed italics. You can read more at Wikipedia about Aldus and about the Aldine Press. Here's a fun animation of the press logo, a dolphin (graphic created by Laura Aydelotte):


February 7: Charles Dickens. Sunday is the birthday of the novelist Charles Dickens in 1812; you can read more about his life and career at Wikipedia. Do you have a favorite Dickens novel? My favorite is Hard Times (see below). Here is a lovely painting by Robert William Buss entitled Dickens' Dream:


 Here is a free audiobook of Hard Times. 




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