Saturday, September 12

HAPPY WEEKEND! Today is Saturday of Week 3. If you have some assignments to finish up, here is a link to Week 3, and also a link to Week 4 if you are ready to move on ahead to those assignments. (Working ahead is always a good strategy, especially at the start of the semester.)

Class Procedures and Reminders

Extra credit Tech Tips. Now that you are looking at other people's blogs when you do comments, you might get some ideas for features you want to add to your blog, and there are extra credit Tech Tips to help you with blog design experiments, along with all kinds of other tech possibilities also.

Project Stack. As people turn in assignments, I'll update the stack periodically so you can check the stack to make sure I got yours. Then on Monday I'll start replying to the assignments in the stack based on the order in which they were turned in. If you turn it in sooner, you will get comments back sooner. :-)

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. It's always fun to see the art that people find to use in their blog posts, like this beautiful Orthodox mosaic of Noah's ark in Levi's post.


Twitter stream. In the OU Libraries Twitter, I learned about the new hours at Bizzell:


And you'll find the complete Amar Chitra Katha comic books collection on Reserve in Bizzell, and here's another Uncle Pai quote from ACK Twitter:


And here's a lovely essay about creative integration that I saw in the Aeon Twitter feed: To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality’ by Julianne Chung.


Storybook. Some of you in Myth-Folklore have been exploring Greek mythology this week, and here's a Greek myth Storybook from last year that is built with Twine: Hades: Adventures in the Underworld.


100-Word Stories. And here's an Aesop's fable with some Greek mythology, the story of what happened when Cupid and Death got their arrows mixed up: Death and Cupid.


There are old Latin proverbs, and also modern ones, like this saying that Rowling invented for as a motto for Hogwarts: Never tickle a sleeping dragon. Draco dormiens numquam titillandus.


Here's a fun video for Saturday night (spent with a book): Unread Book.


A wonderful quote from Game of Thrones: A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.


September 12: Lascaux Caves. Today marks the anniversary of the discovery in 1940 of the prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux in France. For more information, see Wikipedia, which is also the source for the image below. The paintings are approximately 16,000 years old, dating to the "Stone Age" (Upper Paleolithic, around 40,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE).


And here's a video about the caves with Rick Steves:



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