Thursday, March 8

Today is Thursday of Week 8. Today's Review Week post is a chance to check your progress so far and make a plan for the rest of the semester. Here are the Week 8 assignments.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Success Tip: Use the Grace Period. Someone left a comment in the suggestion box that I should give deadline extensions, so I wanted to remind everybody about how the grace period works: there's a no-questions-asked extension for any assignment that goes until noon the next day. And if that is not enough of an extension, there's always extra credit you can use to make up missing points. More about the Grace Period.

Project Stack. If you turned in an assignment by 6PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now, and today I'll start working on the Sunday evening assignments. While you are waiting on comments back from me, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email. And if you are eligible for the Week 8 free pass, you can send me that email now; you don't need to wait to get my comments to complete the pass.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. Okay, I confess: this LOLCat from Casey's blog post DID make me laugh out loud! Week 8 Progress.

Word from Mythology. The word HYPNOSIS is from the Greek word "hypnos" (sleep), and Hypnos was the Greek God of Sleep:

India Video: Many of you Indian epics have been reading books by R. K. Narayan over the past couple months, so I thought you might enjoy this video: R. K. Narayan.

And here is a stamp issued in his honor:

Myth Book Online: Today's free book is Native Fairy Tales of South Africa by Ethel L. McPherson. See the Freebookapalooza blog for links and the table of contents. The illustrations are by Helen Jacob:

Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is a warning for chickens: A weasel comes to say Happy New Year to the chickens. Find out more at the Proverb Laboratory.

Writing: Here's a fun word to know: scripturient.

H.E.A.R.T.: Here's a graphic to inspire you to start something ... something new! ... today: Start Today.

Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cat has started something, and isn't going to stop: You must persist despite setbacks. You can find out more at the Growth Mindset blog.

Video: Maybe this video will inspire you to write a Kafkaesque story for this class! What makes something Kafkaesque?

Event on Campus: It's time for another event in the Postcards from the Stars series: Gravitational Waves at 7PM at the Sam Noble Museum (details). Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.

March 8: International Women's Day. Find out more about the holiday at Wikipedia, and you can follow today's events at Twitter with the hashtag #IWD2018. There's also a Google Doodle hashtag #HerStoryOurStory you can follow, and here's the video with Google Doodles by women artists in honor of International Women's Day.

You can also see the video featured at Google.com today!

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