Friday, March 9

HAPPY FRIDAY! You have reached the end of Week 8! Here is a link to the class calendar; after you finish the Review Week, you can start in on next week's assignments if you want; those assignments are ready to go too.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Success Tip: Look back on Friday. Friday is a great day for looking back at how the past week went, while also making plans for the weekend. You can use the Famous Last Words extra credit option to write up your thoughts.

Project Stack. If you turned in your assignment by 9PM on Sunday, you should have gotten comments back from me on Thursday. I'll keep working on the Sunday assignments today. While you are waiting on comments back from me about your Project assignment, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. I love working with images online, so I really enjoyed Catilin's post about using Google Reverse Image search to identify a painting from the Gilcrease Museum: Woody Crumbo's Rainbow Horse.

India Item. Wendy Doniger has just published a new book about India, so I thought I would share this interview with her here: Contemporary India is an uneasy, volatile mix.

Myth Video: This short film about the goddess Hera is like a Storybook project for this class: The Mundane Goddess.

India Comic Book: Today's comic book is Thanjavur: City of Brihadeeswara. See the Amar Chitra Katha blog for the Bizzell Reserve call number and more information. As you can see from the cover, this is a story about Shiva:

Proverb of the Day: Today's wise words com from Ralph Waldo Emerson: Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. Find out more at the Proverb Laboratory.

Writing: I like creative writing as a discipline bcause it promotes Divergent AND Convergent Thinking.

Attention: Just like you have to focus your own attention, you can focus Google's attention with these powerful Here's an item from the Google Search Parameters.

Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cat is doing research: Confront the unknown with curiosity. You can find out more at the Growth Mindset blog.

This one comes with a video too!

Video: And here's something fun for Friday: font humor! Papyrus.

Event on Campus: There will be free showings of the Shape of Water in Meacham at 9PM and midnight (details). Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.

March 6. Shashi Tharoor. Today marks the birthday of the Indian politician and author, Shashi Tharoor; he was born in 1956. You can read about his life and career at Wikipedia, and he is a great person to follow at Twitter. He is also the author of a fascinating book, The Great Indian Novel, which retells the Mahabharata using characters from modern Indian politics.

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