Update: You will see that the Week 14 blog comments and project feedback assignments are still available in Canvas; I have moved them to the top of Week 15. I made those still available so that if you missed those items and want to do them, you still can. It's very helpful if you want to do those because the commenting gets very ragged here at the end, and it's nice when people can get some comments on their work even at the very end of the semester like this.
Class Procedures and Reminders
Dead Week. If you have not finished the class yet, you can use this week's assignments to get to your goal; the key thing is to make sure you complete all your work for the course by Friday at noon. As soon as you have the points you need (410-A, 360-B, 320-C), you are done. Just fill out the "Finished" form that you will find there in Canvas, and you are good to go!
Project Stack. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email. I'm focusing first on the assignments from people who are not done with class yet, starting with the new stories people turned in for Week 14, and then moving on to the other Week 14 and Week 15 assignments. Thank you for your patience while I work through the stack this week, focusing first on people who need comments back for their Week 15 project.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. Someone added this super-adorable gif to the check-in-and-connect Padlet: waving bye for the end of the semester!
This is a fascinating infographic about religion that shows the distinctive presence of Hinduism in India: World Map of Religions.
This is a Smithsonian video on Native American Ledger Art.
Plus some thoughts from Grant Snider about keeping A Writer's Notebook.
These are some items from the announcements back in Week 7:
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
Class Procedures and Reminders
Dead Week. If you have not finished the class yet, you can use this week's assignments to get to your goal; the key thing is to make sure you complete all your work for the course by Friday at noon. As soon as you have the points you need (410-A, 360-B, 320-C), you are done. Just fill out the "Finished" form that you will find there in Canvas, and you are good to go!
Project Stack. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email. I'm focusing first on the assignments from people who are not done with class yet, starting with the new stories people turned in for Week 14, and then moving on to the other Week 14 and Week 15 assignments. Thank you for your patience while I work through the stack this week, focusing first on people who need comments back for their Week 15 project.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. Someone added this super-adorable gif to the check-in-and-connect Padlet: waving bye for the end of the semester!
This is a Smithsonian video on Native American Ledger Art.
Something very cool and weird from the British Library: an art form called nari-kunjara, an elephant (kunjara) made of women (nari):
Chris found this amazing statue of Bhima for his reading notes post. It's from Bali, in Indonesia, where the Mahabharata is extremely popular (both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are well known beyond the borders of India).
For your listening pleasure, talking drums of Africa:
And from Crash Course: African Pantheons and the Orishas.
Plus... dragons!
For fans of dragons and/or Latin: A serpent, unless it devours a serpent, will not become a dragon. And for those of you who have studied Latin: Serpens, ni edat serpentem, draco non fiet.
May 3: Pete Seeger. Almost one hundred years ago today, on May 3 of 1919, Pete Seeger was born, and he left this world just a few years ago, in 2014. You can read more about Pete Seeger's career in this Wikipedia article, and I've included two videos here: a concert performance by Peter Seeger and Arlo Guthrie (son of Woody Guthrie), and a recent video from Amnesty International with Peter Seeger performing the Dylan classic, Forever Young.
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
