Class Procedures and Reminders
Extra credit Tech Tips. Now that you are looking at other people's blogs when you do comments, you might get some ideas for features you want to add to your blog, and there are extra credit Tech Tips to help you with blog design experiments, along with all kinds of other tech possibilities also.
Project Stack. There were just a few items left in the stack on Friday, and those will be at the top of the stack when I get back to work on Monday. As people turn in assignments, I'll update the stack periodically so you can check the stack to make sure I got yours. Then on Monday I'll start replying to the assignments in the stack based on the order in which they were turned in. That means if you turn it in sooner, you will get comments back sooner. :-)
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. Since this is for both Saturday and Sunday, I've included two items from the blog stream this time. I'll start with this adorable picture of a quokka. What's a quokka? You can find out in Deepa's story: The Quokka and the Tourists.
Blog stream. Since this is for both Saturday and Sunday, I've included two items from the blog stream this time. I'll start with this adorable picture of a quokka. What's a quokka? You can find out in Deepa's story: The Quokka and the Tourists.
And here is a great image from Luda's Storybook research post on Indian goddesses and the Coronavirus. Find out more at Luda's blog post.
Here's a Conversation video that goes with it:
Twitter stream. Sunday is Valentine's Day, which is one of the most folkloric days of the year, so I'm going to fill up this blog post with items that were shared in this week's #FolkloreThursday Twitter fest which focused on folklore and folktales about love in honor of Valentine's Day.
Love divination with apples:
Love divination with onions:
February 13. Lupercalia. Saturday is the Ides of February in the Roman calendar, which means it is the first day of the festival of the Lupercalia. Lupercus was the god of shepherds and his festival was intended to insure fertility in the coming spring. The Luperci priests would run through the streets, dressed in goatskins, and lash the women of the city with the thongs. You can read more about Lupercalia in this Wikipedia article and at NPR.
Valentine's Day: Green M-and-M Legend. In honor of Valentine's Day, here is a Valentine's Day Legend from Snopes.com. Back in 2008, the Mars Candy Company promoted the distribution of packages of all-green M-and-M candies because the green candies are supposedly an aphrodisiac — true or false??? Well, Snopes.com tells us that is true that Mars promoted the green candies for Valentine's Day, but as to whether the green M-and-Ms really are an aphrodisiac, Snopes.com is not saying!
Meanwhile, that word "aphrodisiac" is from the Greek name of the goddess of love, mighty Aphrodite... and here's a lovely vase painting with Aphrodite riding on a swan:
Meanwhile, that word "aphrodisiac" is from the Greek name of the goddess of love, mighty Aphrodite... and here's a lovely vase painting with Aphrodite riding on a swan:
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
