Today is Sunday of Week 6, so if you have not finished up the Week 6 assignments, today is the day to do that! You can also get started on Week 7 (all the Week 7 assignments, including comments and feedback, are available now).
Class Procedures and Reminders
Extra credit. There are all kinds of extra credit options which I hope can be fun and/or useful, so if you haven't given any of those a try yet, now would be a good time to see what's available. There are lots of extra credit options, like the Tech Tips for example, or the Back-Up and Review option to check on your class progress so far.
Project Stack. The sooner you turn in your project today, the sooner you'll get comments back from me next week (I reply to the assignments in the order that they are turned in). I'll check my email periodically today, and I'll update the stack periodically today so that you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. One of those Tech Tip options is learning how to create a Twine branching story, and here's a fun Twine experiment from Braden: Disney Murder Mystery.
Comic Book On Reserve. Today's comic book is Uloopi: The Naga Princess who Fell in Love with Arjuna. (For more about Anant Pai, the founder of ACK comic books, see below.)
Free Audiobook. Today's free audiobook is Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford.
Featured Storybook. This is a dragon project: Legends of Fire. Deep in the woods is a tavern, and sitting around a table in that tavern are some wild-looking men: dragon-hunters! Listen to the stories of what happened when they confronted mighty dragons all over the world, from Scotland to Turkey to India.
Free Audiobook. Today's free audiobook is Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford.
India Video. Here is an Epified video on Weapons of the Gods.
Writing. If you've ever wondered why commas are so confusing, take a look at this chart: The 15 Punctuation Marks. The poor comma has a lot of different jobs, more than any other punctuation mark!
Some advice for today, or any day: What You Do Today.
Growth Mindset Cats. What to do? Try doing something creative every day.
And here's a lovely Brian Eno video "every day" and the passage of time: Just Another Day.
Event on Campus. To celebrate Black History Month, the OU Chorale will perform a concert entitled “Lift Every Voice and Sing!” today at 3PM in Sharp Concert Hall in Catlett Music Center (details).
February 24: Anant Pai. Today marks the anniversary of the death of Anant Pai in the year 2011. He was the visionary genius behind the Amar Chitra Katha comic books that many of you have been enjoying in the Indian Epics class. You can find out more about Anant Pai here, and below is a Google Doodle in his honor:
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
