Wednesday, September 30

Today is Wednesday of Week 6. Here is a link to Week 6. For some of you this is a Reading day, and some of you might also be doing your Story assignment already. Have fun with that — and yes, there's a Story Lab option again this week!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned in something before 2PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now, and today I'll keep working on the Sunday afternoon items. As always, you can check the stack anytime to make sure I received your project.

Check-In/Connect. I want to thank everybody for all the fun stuff you've been adding to the Padlet; this is the first semester I've set up a Padlet like this, and it is so cool seeing all the different things people have added. So, if you haven't done that yet, remember you can do it anytime during the week; here's how that extra credit works: Check-In/Connect. (And you can see the Padlet in Canvas too; it's the EC Connect item in the Canvas navigation.)


The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. I am so impressed at the microfiction people are writing, and here's a new one from AJ that includes a wonderful visual metaphor involving... ice! Here's the story: Life is Like Ice.


Twitter stream. Some inspiration from animal Twitter!


And from John Overholt, information about a PBS show on one of my favorite topics: the technology of writing, starting with the amazing alphabet. A to Z: The First Alphabet.


And here's a fun cartoon about the perils of the cursive alphabet: demons and lemons! Plus an example from real life. :-)



Storybook. In the spirit of ancient writing, here's a really cool Storybook: Babylonian Tales: Book of Nabu.


And a video about modern writing technology: The Machine is Us/ing Us. (This video is old... but the power of links is still strong: it makes the Internet what it is!)


Plus just for fun: a new cartoon from the great Nick Seluk about the ongoing conflict of Heart and Brain:


100-Word Stories. Here's a story from the Sufi poet Rumi, and for more about Rumi, see below! This is a legend about Moses: The Language of Animal.


September 30: Rumi. Today is traditionally regarded as the birthday in the year 1207 of the Persian mystical poet Rumi. To learn more about this remarkable 13th-century poet, surely one of the greatest poets in the history of the world, see Wikipedia. The image below shows Rumi with his disciples in a 16th-century manuscript from Baghdad, and below is a video performance of his poetry in Persian:




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