Wednesday, August 26

Today is Wednesday of Week 1. Congratulations to everybody for getting your blog set up! Here is a link to this week's assignments, and today you will be exploring the Storybook projects from past semesters. I hope that will start to give you some ideas for your own project in this class! (If you didn't finish the Tuesday tasks yesterday, the grace period is open this morning in Canvas too.)

Class Procedures and Reminders

Blog network. The blog stream is very lively now, full of new posts popping up! There's a "blogs" link in the Canvas left-hand navigation menu, so you can take a look and see what people are posting in (almost) real time in both Myth-Folklore and in Indian Epics.

Blog comments. My goal this week is to comment on all the favorite places posts, and I will also comment on as many of the Introduction posts as I can. I'm also going to try to get the commenting assignment for Week 2 set up today, and I'll send around a note to those of you who are working ahead to let you know when that's ready to go.

Storybooks! There are a few people who are working seriously ahead, so there are even two projects up and running already; you can take a look if you are curious: Kev has a Tolkien-inspired project going in Myth-Folklore: Focuse's Adventures in Middle Earth, and Neal has a project about Shiva for Indian Epics: Shiva's Family: Animals. And about a month from now, there will be LOTS of new projects in both classes.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. Here is a fun post: this is Riley's favorite place (bed! yes!)... plus a cat keeping the bed warm: My Bed. So, it's a favorite place PLUS pet:


Twitter stream. Here's a cartoon from one of my favorite cartoonists: Nick Seluk. His cartoon characters are Heart and Brain, and occasional other organs too.


And here's a fun one from another illustrator I follow at Twitter, Debbie Ridpath-Ohi; you'll be learning about something called "growth mindset" later this week, and this is a great example: mistakes are how we learn!


And here's a Shakira video inspired by the same idea: Try Everything.


100-Word Stories. This is a 100-word version of a story that those of you in Indian Epics will be reading next week; it is an ancient Buddhist story from India: The Turtle and the Two Birds.



I'm a believer in napping... so here is a graphic about nap-goodness: How Long to Nap.


And here's a really cool project about art and perception from the OU Daily: Colorblind Glasses at the FJJMA.


August 26: The 19th Amendment. On this day in 1920, 100 years ago, the 19th Amendment went into effect: women could no longer be denied the right to vote in the U.S. You can read more about the amendment in Wikipedia. Many of the suffragettes fighting for the vote were also abolitionists fighting to end slavery, like the great Sojourner Truth; her famous "Ain't I a woman?" speech was delivered at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio. You can read one version of the speech here, and the portrait below is Sojourner Truth's visiting card, circa 1864. "I sell the shadow to support the substance" means that Sojourner Truth refused to let others profit from selling her portrait; she claimed exclusive rights to sell her "shadow" to support the substance, which was the cause of Emancipation.



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