Class Procedures and Reminders
Success Tips: Go wild with your notes. Yesterday I mentioned talking out loud while you read, which might sound kind of weird or be new to you, but trying weird new things is good for learning! Likewise with notetaking: try a new strategy, look up weird things online, be curious, ask questions! The more active your brain can be while you read and take notes, the more you will remember. I hope this class can be a semester-long experiment in all kinds of notetaking strategies (see some ideas here).
Project Stack. If you turned in something before 3PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now, and I'll keep making my way through the Sunday assignments. While you are waiting on comments back from me, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. Here's something really fun from the blog stream: Bailey is looking for Facebook boosters in a wedding photography contest. If you use Facebook, you could help her out with a like and comment. Look for Bailey and her fiance there at the Facebook link in her blog post:
India Video: For those of you in Indian Epics, I wanted to share this video of Robert Goldman reading from the Ramayana. He is one of the world's greatest experts on the Ramayana and also a wonderful person (he was my teacher at UC Berkeley back in the day).
Myth Book Online: Some of you in Myth-Folklore been reading Alfred Church's adaptation of the Iliad, and this is another book of his: Stories from the Greek Tragedians. See the Freebookapalooza blog for links and the table of contents.
Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is also from the world of Greek mythology: If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned / he would soon be out of thunderbolts. Find out more at the Proverb Laboratory.
H.E.A.R.T.: Here's an item to help you ponder the diversity of the world in a thought-provoking way: The World as 100 People. Only 5 would be in North America, for example!
Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cat knows the value of learning to look at things from different angles. You can find out more at the Growth Mindset blog.
Video: Here's a video about empathy that I thought you might enjoy: The Empathic Civilization (it's another one of those RSA animate videos).
Event on Campus: Come to the Fred Jones Center Lightwell Gallery to see work on display by OU's Masters of FIne Arts students (details). Here's a photo of a past Lightwell Gallery student exhibit (credit: OU Daily).
February 7: Charles Dickens. Today is the birthday of the great novelist Charles Dickens in 1812; you can read more about his life and career at Wikipedia. Do you have a favorite Dickens novel? Mine is Hard Times; you can read the book online for free, or listen to the free audiobook from Librivox.
Here is a lovely painting by Robert William Buss entitled Dickens' Dream:
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