Class Procedures and Reminders
My schedule today. I'll be away from my desk for most of the late morning and early afternoon, so I will be slower to respond to emails today: I got my vaccination appointment at last! I should be back at my desk sometime in the afternoon and will be able to catch up on any email then. Thank you for your patience with that today.
Week 10 Break (or Week 9). I sent around an email yesterday with information about the Week 10 Break. I put those points into Canvas on Monday afternoon, so you all saw a 30-point bump. You can use that for a break in Week 10, or take Week 9 off, or finish early, or just let the points fill in any point gap you might have from missing items earlier. It all depends on what's best for you! More information here: Spring 2021 Break Weeks.
Project Stack. If you turned in a project last week or on Saturday, you should have comments back from me, and I'll start working on the Sunday items today. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment.
March 23: Kurosawa. March 23 marks the birthday in the year 1910 of the great Japanese film director, Akira Kurosawa. You can read about his long career and many cinematic achievements in this Wikipedia article. His most famous film is probably The Seven Samurai. Of all of Kurosawa's films, my personal favorite is Dersu Uzala, a story set in Siberia around the year 1900, when Russian mapmakers rely on the skills of a native Nanai tribal member, Dersu Uzala, to survive the harsh Siberian climate. It's a fantastic movie, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1975. Highly recommended!
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
Project Stack. If you turned in a project last week or on Saturday, you should have comments back from me, and I'll start working on the Sunday items today. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. People have been adding some really great music and playlists to the Padlet, and here's a music-to-study-by video that someone shared:
Blog stream. People have been adding some really great music and playlists to the Padlet, and here's a music-to-study-by video that someone shared:
And from Nathan Pyle, a cartoon all about point of view (larger view):
A fan of Chitra Divakaruni's new novel about Sita created this lovely Sita Graphic to share at Twitter:
I learned about this very cool book at Internet Archive: these are Gothic Alphabets. For example:
I know everybody in these classes now appreciates the value of openly licensed images to use online, so here's some good news from John Overholt about images from the Folger Shakespeare Library: Folger Reference Image Collection.
From the distant past: a devil-frog, Beelzebufo; you can find out more at Wikipedia.
And something to inspire your creativity from John Spencer: A Bigger Definition of Creativity.
