Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. If you turned in your project on Saturday, you should have comments back from me, and I'll start working on Sunday items today. You can always check the stack to make sure I received your project.
Finishing early. For those of you who are on track to finish early, I've put the "Finished!" form right there in Canvas. When you're done, you can fill that out to let me know your final grade (410 A, 360 B, 320 C), and that's it: you're all done for the semester. :-)
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. One thing you can always do with a blog post or project is to work on the design elements, especially illustrations. Savannah is using Canva to create illustration sets for her stories, which is so cool; here's her latest: The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants with four different images to tell the story:
Blog stream. One thing you can always do with a blog post or project is to work on the design elements, especially illustrations. Savannah is using Canva to create illustration sets for her stories, which is so cool; here's her latest: The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants with four different images to tell the story:
Twitter stream. Savannah's use of Canva connects up with a really cool use of Canva that I saw from a teacher at Twitter: 30-word autobiographies made into Canva graphics (click that link and then click on an image to read the tiny autobiographies).
And here are some really cool photos from Art Historian, matching up Indian paper money with the places depicted on them:
And Nirali from the musical group Maati Baani is in a new ad worth watching for the music:
New ad of Taj Mahal Tea ft @niralikartik ❤️ pic.twitter.com/HjY1YpXxeR
— MAATIBAANI (@maatibaani) April 6, 2021
A few years ago Maati Baani did a charming ad for Pepsi, very much worth a look/listen:
For another video today, here's one about the medieval legend of the hedgehog, rolling in grapes to take home for its young ones: De Herinacio. On the Hedgehog, with English subtitles.
Positive thoughts from Grant Snider: Optimism (larger view).
And some thoughts about creativity as sketched by Sylvia Duckworth (larger view). When times get tough, I say: get creative!
April 7: Ravi Shankar. Today is the birthday of the amazing Indian musician, Ravi Shankar, one of the modern masters of the sitar. He was born in 1920, and he died in 2012. You can read about Ravi Shankar's life and career at his official website and in this Wikipedia article, which is the source for this photo of Ravi Shankar with George Harrison of the Beatles, back in 1967. You can also find some great Ravi Shankar videos at YouTube.com - such as this wonderful video of Shankar's appearance on the Dick Cavett show. He left us with much beautiful music!
