Sunday, September 20

Today is Sunday of Week 4, so that means it is the day to finish up the Week 4 items (along with any extra credit you want to do)... and if you have time, you can get started on Week 5 too. 

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. I'll try to update the stack periodically today, so you can check the stack to make sure I received your project. The sooner you turn that in today, the sooner you'll get comments back from me. Plus on Monday I'll be ready to start creating the class project lists!

Mindset extra credit survey. Last week I mentioned Murat Turk's online learning survey that you can do for Growth Mindset extra credit ... and then I saw this article about Murat in the Daily: OU doctoral students. Murat is doing some really important work, so if you have a chance to do his survey, that would be great!


The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. Another one of the growth mindset extra credit options is to make an acronym, and here's one that Izzy made:  BEST. Believe. Everything. Starts. Today.


Twitter stream. Of course there was so much about Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Twitter stream; here's an item that really spoke to me: carry on.


Also from Twitter, here's Gurdeep of the Yukon with some feel-good bhangra:


And if your're into folktales and fairy tales, Adam Hoffman is a fun person to follow at Twitter:


Storybook. And in the spirit of women warriors, here's an Indian Epics Storybook: Swa-Shakti: The Year of Women's Empowerment. In this Storybook, all the characters are women. 


100-Word Stories. Maybe some of you will experiment with a 100-word microfiction story today (extra credit!). I'm working on a book of Sufi stories right now; here's one: The Boy and his Candle.



As the semester goes on, I hope I can inspire everybody in this class to enjoy the power of punctuation. It's a big part of how writing works! Punctuation saves lives:





September 20: Annie Besant. Today marks the death of Annie Besant in 1933; she was a leader in the Indian Independence Movement, and she was also a well-known Theosophist who took a great interest in the sacred texts of India, including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. You can find out more about her life and accomplishments in Wikipedia, and I have some related links at the Indian Epics site. This photograph of Annie Besant was taken in the 1880s:


Here is a video about her life:



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