Tuesday, August 25

Today is Tuesday of Week 1, and if you have not logged on at Canvas to get started with the class, today is the day to do that! Here is a link to this week's assignments. Happy Blogging! :-)

Class Procedures and Reminders

Monday announcements. If you didn't get a chance to read yesterday's announcements, you can do that now: Monday announcements. And you can subscribe to the announcements by email if you want; there's a subscription box in the right-hand sidebar of the blog here.

Blog network. Congratulations to everybody who has their blog set up already! The blog stream is really going strong now, with lots of posts in both classes; about half of the blogs were up and running at the end of the day Monday. To take a look, you can click on the "Blogs" button in the Canvas menu for the Myth-Folklore class or for the Indian Epics class.

Blogs and Comments. By the end of the day today, everybody will be blogging, and these blogs "are" the class. (No Zoom, just blogs... and then later, project websites too.) My goal this week is to read and comment on all the Favorite Places posts, and I'll be reading Introduction posts this week and next. In Week 2, you'll all be commenting on each other's blogs also, and I might even be able to get that set up this week already.

CAS Orientation. You may have received an email from the College of Arts and Sciences about an online course orientation; you do not need to do that CAS orientation for this class. The week-long Orientation for this class will cover everything you need.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. There can never be too many pet pictures in the blogs, so here are two pictures of Kylie's dog Bella from her blog post... and check out that post for her soon-to-be new dog (still just a little puppy!).


Twitter stream. I thought this tweet video was brilliant: the combination of Bhangra and Highland dancing means it works for both Indian Epics and Myth-Folklore! You can find out more about Gurdeep at his website.



The British Museum is one of my favorite Twitter accounts, and here's a fascinating item; you can read more aboutAyuba Suleiman Diallo at Wikipedia.


100-Word Stories. Nasruddin is a famous character in Middle Eastern, Central Asian and South Asian folklore, and here's a story about Nasruddin's work as a judge; you can read the text here: The Beggar and the Food Vendor. (You'll be learning more about these 100-word "microfiction" stories later this week.)



I'm guessing some of you might be able to relate to this clock, especially with the weird new schedule for the Fall semester: I'm late anyway.


There are so many wonderful music videos at YouTube, and here's one from the Indian musician Manish Vyas talking about the santoor:


And if you need to give yourself a break, just think Tech-Meditate. In your mind's browser, clear your cache... now delete your history... now navigate to a blank web page.


August 25: Walt Kelly. The American cartoonist, Walt Kelly, most famous for his Pogo cartoons, was born on August 25 in 1913; you can find out more at Wikipedia. He worked at Disney on the classic films Snow White, Fantasia, and Dumbo.The image below is from his Animal Mother Goose book (larger version):


Here's the Disney Dumbo trailer from 1941, almost 80 years ago!




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