Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. If you turned in something on Saturday, you should have comments back from me now, and I'll be working on the Sunday items starting today. As always, you can check the stack anytime to make sure I received your project.
My schedule today. I'm presenting at a virtual conference today, so I will be unavailable in the late morning / early afternoon, but I'll reply to any emails later, just slower than usual. I'm doing a presentation with a friend whose students also publish websites for their science class, and we'll be trying to persuade people in North Dakota (!) to try using blogs and websites in their classes. If you're curious, here's our slidedeck. :-)
Unleashing student voices with open pedagogy
Blog stream. I thought this was such a cool image in Rachael's blog post for the Story Lab this week; I have never seen this depiction of Odin on the great horse Sleipnir before!
Twitter stream. More gorgeous art from India: winged female deity, appx. two thousand years old:
Check out the very long Twitter thread for SO MANY VIDEOS of classical music in cartoons: wow!
THREAD: Lots of us learned classical music from watching old cartoons, so I’m going to identify the pieces that frequently popped up.
— Vincent Alexander (@NonsenseIsland) March 1, 2021
One of the most recognizable is Franz Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2,” performed by those great piano virtuosos Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry. pic.twitter.com/SmyKbMpw3e
Some inspiration from animal Twitter!
— Satisfying Animation (@AnimationVidz) January 9, 2020
And an amazing cryptid map (which I found thanks to Savannah):
Fun cartoon about the perils of the cursive alphabet: demons and lemons! Plus an example from real life. :-)
And a video about modern writing technology: The Machine is Us/ing Us. (This video is old... but the power of links is still strong: it makes the Internet what it is!)
Another cartoon from the great Nick Seluk about the ongoing conflict of Heart and Brain (larger view):
March 3: Hinamatsuri. Today, March 3, is the Hinamatsuri holiday in Japan, the "Doll Festival," which is a festival of good luck for young girls. You can read more about the holiday in this Wikipedia article. This image shows a Hinamatsuri doll displayed at the festival in 2005 in the city of Kounos, near Tokyo. You can follow the holiday at Twitter today: #Hinamatsuri.
And here's a holiday song:
And here's a holiday song: Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.