Friday, March 12

HAPPY FRIDAY! You have reached the end of Week 7! Here is a link to the class calendar where you can find the link for Week 7 and also Week 8, which is a review week; for more about that, see below.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. Yesterday, I replied to the projects turned in on Sunday, and I'll finish the rest of the Week 6 items in the stack today, plus as many of the projects for Week 7 and future weeks as I can. While you are waiting on comments back from me, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project.

Week 8. As mentioned above, Week 8 is a review week, so I would urge you to jump right in when you get to the end of Week 7 and do the Week 8 review posts, which replace the reading and story posts for that week. It's a great way to get yourself ahead of the due dates, and you might be able to use that boost as a way to stay well ahead of the due dates for the rest of the semester.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. Chris found this amazing statue of Bhima for his reading notes post. It's from Bali, in Indonesia, where the Mahabharata is extremely popular (both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are well known beyond the borders of India).


Twitter stream. Some exciting OU news via the OU Daily at Twitter: Native Oral History Revitalization Project.


And there's a great event going on this month, March Mammal Madness, known as #2021MMM at Twitter. It's a great way to learn about all kinds of amazing and beautiful animal species. More about March Mammal Madness here. This is a thread someone did for Team Lemur with art mash-ups:


Some of you may known Prof. Anderson at OU: he's part of Team Mandrill as you can see in this great picture he took in his mandrill mask:


Some great writing advice via Twitter: give yourself time.


And a comic from Grant Snider on writing:


And here's a video that explains one of the most important features of language in general and of storytelling in particular: 1st-2nd-3rd Person.


March 12: Maha Shivaratri. This year, the festival of "The Great Night of Shiva" started yesterday on March 11 and lasted through the night, ending this morning, March 12. You can read more about the Maha Shivratri festival at this Wikipedia article. In particular, the festival marks the occasion of Shiva's great cosmic dance:


Here is a tweet from the ever-awesome Maati Baani in honor of the holiday:


And check out the YouTube page for the lyrics to this famous Shiva song as performed by Manish Vyas:



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