Friday, March 19

HAPPY FRIDAY! Today is Friday of Week 8; Here is a link: Week 8, I hope the Review Week blog posts were helpful, and now you can finish up the regular end-of-week project, feedback, and comments. Plus, here's a link to the Week 9 for those of you who are working ahead.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned something in before 11PM on Sunday, you should have gotten comments back from me by now, and today I'll finish the remaining Week 7 items in the stack. I'll also get through as many of the Week 8 and Week 9 items as I can. You can always check the stack to make sure I received your project, and anything left in the stack at the end of the day today will be at the top of the stack for Monday!

Extra credit. (repeat announcement) This is my periodic reminder that you can do extra credit anytime during the week! You don't need to wait and do that as the last thing. So if your progress review left you thinking you should do some extra credit, go ahead and try to do some now; there are lots of extra credit options every week. :-)

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. In Deepa's Comments and Feedback post, she shared one of my all-time favorite Grant Snider graphics about the trap of negative thinking (larger view). It all depends on how you look at it!


Twitter stream. Someone from the Indian Epics class was in the OU Daily today, specifically, in the latest podcast; you can listen to Jana here: Born with two strikes.


I was excited to see this wonderful tweet from Public Domain Review about the instruments of the world: I have a kalimba that looks just like the one in this illustration! Learn more about the world's instruments in the Harmonic Cabinet of 1722.


Yes, they really are government gifs... from the Smithsonian!

And a video from Twitter too:

And some typo humor from Tom Gauld.


Finally, a beautiful video to ponder at the end of the week, with words from Alan Watts:


March 19: Burroughs. Today marks the death in 1950 of the American author Edgar Rice Burroughs, who is best known for having invented the story of Tarzan. You can read more about Burroughs's life and career in this Wikipedia article, and here is an inventory of Burroughs books online, including the Tarzan books that are in the public domain. There are even Tarzan audiobooks available for free download from LibriVox! :-)


Burroughs also sent John Carter to Mars, as in this book: Princess of Mars.


And speaking of Mars, a new cartoon from Liniers! (larger view)... and also in Spanish.



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