Week 8: Review

Reviewing my past week: Back-up, check! Check-up, did it! Review, see below!!

This past week was rather easy on the assignments (no reading or writing), but I did get to do some fun posts! I have already received some happy comments on the music video I selected for my comment wall! My favorite announcement for the week has to be Friday's - I loved the Words of Wisdom piece!

I love this, because I think pictures can serve such an important purpose - especially in storytelling! (Source)

Week 7: Review

Week seven has come to a close! Next week is a heavy midterm week, and then SPRING BREAK!! YAY!! 

As always, I have done my back-up and check-up. Making sure to have a copy of all my work is handy just in case technology fails me - which is so my luck. 

I also reviewed the week's announcements. I love having those daily announcements, they offer some insight on what to expect for the day, some interesting facts/reading, and some nice humor. my favorite post for the week was on Friday. It was a post on spellcheck working properly - which sometimes it just fails you! In this course there are so many weirdly spelled names - I think Word has just given up on me! 

I am always questioning spell check! (Source).

Week 6: Review

As usual, the final thing I do each week for this class is the backup/review everything. I have made sure to backup my blogger and google site - no worries there! I also made sure all of my declarations for the week had been completed! And finally, I read over the daily announcements for the week. My favorite post is actually from today, Sunday. It was on creativity (see below), and I just love that. I think sometimes it is good to be "by the book", but other times it is great to just let loose and let your imagination free!

A graphic on creativity (Writing Laboratory).

Week 5 Review

Wow, how time flies. Already five weeks down! I have so much writing I want to do for my storybook, and I really want to read more about Indian beliefs. I will have to start prioritizing my time a bit better!

As always, I made sure to back-up my blog and storybook site. Now that I am making more changes to the storybook site, I really don't want to lose it all!

When looking back over this week's announcements, I really enjoyed a segment of the post on Friday! It was the "Words of Wisdom" - Man is more fragile than a flower, and yet harder than a stone. This really hit base with me when I think of how tough we all appear on the outside, but out minds/feelings are so easily damaged. When reading the stories on Rama, I found that he beat his enemies not necessarily with might, but rather with wit.

A Kashmiri proverb. (Source)

Week 4 Review

Aaahhh, one month down. It is a nice feeling having completed a whole month!! I have completed the weekly back-up for each of my sites, and made sure all of my declarations are up-to-date. When reviewing the daily announcements, there was a post on Friday, February 12 that caught my eye: The Earliest Ancient Texts. It was interesting to me, because the desire for humans to interact/communicate/write down their thoughts has been present for a very, very long time! Also, I like to think of the hieroglyphics as Egyptian texting!

Cartoon by Dan Reynolds.

Week 3 Review

Third week down! As usual, I like to back-up any sites in which I have made changes to (Blogger, Google Site, Pinterest). I also like to make for sure that I didn't miss any declarations for my weekly assignments. This is also a good time to look back on the weekly announcements and make sure I didn't miss anything. A lot of interesting information can be found on those announcements! My favorite was the bit on "The Writer's Mask" from Wednesday!

A quote from Oscar Wilde. Masks at Pixabay.

Week 2 Review

The second week of the semester is coming to a close, and with that it is always good to review what you have done. I made sure to back-up my Blogger posts (no need to back-up the Google Site, because no changes have been made). Next, it is important to make sure all assignments were declared - it would stink to miss out on points just because I forgot to declare it. Finally, I reviewed the daily announcements for this week (things can get hectic, and sometimes I don't always read the announcement on the day it was posted). I find the announcements both helpful (it is nice to have a summary of what is going on) and interesting (between the growth mindset cats and other memes, I am always engaged in those posts!). My favorite item comes from the Friday announcement - Mythical Creatures. Throughout the Ramayana, I have come across several mythical creatures. It was interesting to see a diagram of the different kinds of creatures you can come across in literature, you can see it below.

Mythical Creatures diagram. 

Week 1 Review

This have been a wonderful introduction week into the Epics of India course. I made sure to back up my Blogger, Google Site, and Pinterest Board, just in case something happens to them. I also made sure all of my assignments had been declared for the week - which they had been. Finally, I reviewed the daily announcements from the past week. I especially like the Indian Words and English parts, with my favorite being MANTRA - a thought, an instrument for thinking. I enjoy calligraphy, and Sanskrit offers great artistic opportunities!

The Sanskrit spelling of OM, a very famous mantra. From the daily announcement on Thursday.