Wednesday, March 28

Today is Wednesday of Week 10. The second part of the reading is due today, and I hope you are getting some good ideas for a story to tell this week! Here is a link to the Week 10 assignments.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Success Tip: Find your creative time. It might be that your creativity peaks at lunchtime! That's what one study says (details). The better you can understand your daily rhythms, the better use you can make of your time: quote The research showed students became more creative throughout the morning before peaking around midday. The study also reported a significant ‘post-lunch dip’ effect where student performance fell in the afternoon.

Project Stack. If you turned in a project by Sunday at 8PM, you should have comments back from me, and I'll keep working on the Sunday assignments today. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. This is not from the blog stream, but I wanted to share Elizabeth's Storybook story because it uses this "video transcript" style: it's really cool, and you might even want to give "video transcript" style a try too! If the Shoe Fits.

India Item. I was excited to see this interview with writing advice from one of my favorite writers in India, Usha Narayanan: On Writing Mythology.

Myth Video: Here is an item from the Smithsonian: Native American Ledger Art. Find out more at Wikipedia: Ledger Art.

For example, here is a Ledger Art record of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864:

India Comic Book: Today's comic book is about Krishna: The Syamantaka Gem: The Sun-God's Precious Ornament . See the Amar Chitra Katha blog for the Bizzell Reserve call number and more information.

Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is from Mali: Goats cannot live in a herd of leopards. Find out more at the Proverb Laboratory.

Writing: Here's a fun story-maker from Tom Gauld: Shakespeare Adaptation Generator.

H.E.A.R.T.: Here's some advice from Hermione Granger: When in doubt, go to the library!

Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cat knows there are no limits to learning: The best projects are open-ended. You can find out more at the Growth Mindset blog.

Video: Here's a Current Conversations video with my good friend, Nina Livesey, talking about The Historical Jesus. Find out more at her faculty profile at the College of Liberal Studies.

Event on Campus: There will be a free showing of the award-winning Israeli film Out in the Dark at 6PM in Farzaneh Hall 150 (details). Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.

March 28: Marc Chagall. Today marks the anniversary of the death of the painter Marc Chagall in 1985; he was born in 1887. You can read more about his life and work in this Wikipedia article. Chagall created amazing dreamscapes combining motifs from the Jewish tradition and from other religious and mythological traditions also. The painting below is entitled Les Fiancés de la tour Eiffel.

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