Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. If you turned in something on Friday, you should have comments back from me, and I'll be working on the Saturday assignments today; hopefully I will get on to Sunday too.
Midterm grade reports. The university has sent the usual email to instructors reminding us that we are supposed to submit midterm grade reports next week. If you have questions about your progress in this class, let me know. To be passing the class now at the end of Week 6, you should have around 125 points; at the end of Week 7, around 150. This Progress Chart might also be helpful.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. It's always fun to see what people make when they do Tech Tips, and Jill made a new newspaper: a good-news newspaper! See more at the blog post: Newspaper Tech Tip.
Twitter stream. I thought this was a great article from the Smithsonian about the Lumbees (where I live in North Carolina is traditional Lumbee territory): Native American Community in Baltimore.
And here's something from The Atlantic about the Uighur people of China: Saving Uighur Culture From Genocide.
And something from one of my favorite singers from Africa: Angelique Kidjo.
This is the video itself:
And Tom Gauld has these two great takes on what your cat and your dog think about your writing. (Click on those links for larger views of each cartoon.)
October 6: William Tyndale. On this day in the year 1536, the religious scholar William Tyndale was executed. His crime was translating the Bible into English. His last words were reportedly, "Lord! Open the King of England's eyes!" (that would be King Henry VIII). You can read about Willian Tyndale at Wikipedia article. The image below shows Tyndale at the stake:
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Here's a video about Tyndale's New Testament of 1526:
