Wednesday, March 6

Today is Wednesday of Week 8. Here is a link to this week's assignments. I hope you can finish up with Week 8 and move right on to Week 9, using this week as a way to jump out in front of the deadlines... and maybe stay ahead for the rest of the semester too!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned in something before noon on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now, and I'll start working on the Sunday afternoon assignments today. Meanwhile, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

Use the Writing Center. If you are working on research and writing projects this semester, the Writing Center is your friend, and it's also a great resource for this class. They will work with you at any stage of any writing project! Find out more: Writing Center locations and services.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Project Stream. This is not from the blog stream exactly; instead, it's a Comment Wall page that Kaitlyn made for her Google Site. You cannot add external links to Google Sites navigation, but creating a comment wall page like this is a nifty workaround: Comment Wall page. I think it looks great!

Free Book Online. Today's free book is Things Indian by William Crooke, one of the leading folklorists in India during the nineteenth century. It's arranged alphabetically from Agriculture, Amulet, Amusements ... on up to Wood-carving, Wrestling, Writing, with all kinds of fascinating topics in-between.

Free Audiobook. In honor of Latino Flavor today (see below), the free audiobook is Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore by Elsie Spicer Eells.

Featured Storybook. Here is a very sweet Storybook inspired by someone's real dogs and their imagined adventures: The Tales of Garden Creatures. Cocoa and the other little dogs who live in the garden are at war with the pixies, trolls, and gnomes. These dogs have seen things going on in the garden that the humans do not even suspect!

Myth Video. Here's another Crash Course video: The Mwindo Epic.

India Video. Here's an Epified video about Angkor Wat: Vishnu in Cambodia.

India Item. Here's a proverb from Kashmir: Be encouraged, O pilgrim, though your destination is far off.

Time. Procrastination: it's not just a human problem! ET Procrastination.

Words. Here's a cool article about The Names of States. For example, Oklahoma: From a Choctaw word, meaning "red people," which breaks down as okla "nation, people" + homma "red." Choctaw scholar Allen Wright, later principal chief of the Choctaw Nation, coined the word.

Growth Mindset Cats. To grow, you must get unstuck, and to get unstuck, you must first unthink.

And here's a great talk from Scott Barry Kaufman about just what it means to be intelligent: A New Theory of Human Intelligence.

Event on Campus. It's Latino Flavor today in the Union Ballroom from 11AM - 2PM with Panamanian Arroz con Pollo, Colombian Bunuelos, Cuban Ropa Vieja, and Brazilian  Brigadeiros dessert! (details)

Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.

March 6: Andrzej Wajda. Today marks the birthday of one of the world's great film directors: Andrzej Wajda, who was born in 1926; he died in 2016, and you can read his obituary in the Guardian newspaper. He made many amazing films, including a film about the massacre at Katyń during World War II in which his own father was killed; you can read more about that film here: Katyń: History, Lies, Fiction and Myth.

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