Thursday, March 18

Today is Thursday of Week 8. Here is a link to Week 8, along with a link to Week 9 if you want to get a head start now. This Review Week is a really good moment to reset your schedule so that you can start working ahead!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned in your project by 6PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now, and I'll keep working on the Sunday evening assignments today. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project.

Break coming up. Yes, there is going to be a break coming up again in this class (I know everybody is really missing Spring Break). There will be break points recorded for Week 10, but it works just like the first break: if you need to take that break earlier or later, or use the points to finish the class early, that's all fine. More about how that works here: Break Week.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. This is actually from a Storybook, not from a blog; I wanted to let everybody know that there is indeed a Twine project happening in the class this semester: Grant's Odyssey Storybook starts off with a Twine game. You can see how that works in his Introduction. 


And if that's something you're curious about, you can embed Twine in a webpage or in a blog post; there are Tech Tips that explain how to do all of that. :-)


Twitter stream. I saw so much good stuff happening at Twitter yesterday. For St. Patrick's Day there was this lovely video of a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats shared by the Prime Minister of Ireland:


Via the OU Daily, news about one of my favorite OU people at Twitter, Sarah Olzawski, who is starting a new job: OU alumna passes down OU History Department Twitter account.


A new piece with thoughts from Gurdeep of the Yukon about Bhangra during the pandemic: Bhangra dancing on Twitter for joy, hope and positivity.


For fans of Rick Riordan, here are some authors from Rick Riordan Presents: interview with Graci Kim and Roshani Chokshi.


And something more from Roshani Chokshi, author of the Aru Shah books; registration info.


From UNESCCO, thoughts about the Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan: 


And a video about Hindu Gods in Japan:


March 18. Today marks the death in the year 1845 of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, who is an American legend, but who was also a real person! You can find out more at Wikipedia. This portrait shows him in the 1840s:






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



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