Saturday, April 24

HAPPY WEEKEND! It's the weekend of Week 13. Here is a link to Week 13. For those of you are working ahead to finish up, here's a link to Week 14, plus a link to Week 15 too.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Microfiction for extra credit. I would like to encourage everybody to give the microfiction option a try for extra credit if you have time this weekend, or to do that as a Story Lab in Week 14. Next week I'll start setting up an anthology book we can publish together for anyone who is interested in that; here's the Anthology the Fall semester students created. I hope we can do something like that again in these final weeks of the semester!

Project Stack. As people turn in projects, I'll update the stack periodically so you can check the stack to make sure I got yours. Then on Monday I'll start replying to the assignments in the stack based on the order in which they were turned in.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. People share such great inspirational memes and gifs at their blogs and in the Padlet; I really liked this one from Lauren's famous last words post: Getting Ready For My Future.

Twitter stream. This is from Matt Stock, librarian in OU's Fine Arts Library, sharing some student art that they've installed in the library:

Here's an Uncle Pai quote from ACK Twitter:

And a lovely essay about creative integration that I saw in the Aeon Twitter feed: To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality’ by Julianne Chung.

There are old Latin proverbs, and also modern ones, like this saying that Rowling invented for as a motto for Hogwarts: Never tickle a sleeping dragon. Draco dormiens numquam titillandus.

Here's a fun video for Saturday night (spent with a book): Unread Book.

A wonderful quote from Game of Thrones: A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.

April 24: Library of Congress. Saturday is the birthday of the Library of Congress! The Library was created in the year 1800 when President John Adams signed a law to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress." Find out more at Wikipedia. This shows the Reading Room:

And here's a video:

April 25: Marconi. Sunday marks the birthday of Guglielmo Marconi in 1874, one of the great pioneers of radio. And here's a video about the greatness of radio: Gardner Campbell on Radio Redux (I was in the audience for this one, so one of the people you hear cheering when he talks about DS106 Radio would be me).

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