Word Games with Friends in English and Sigma Tau Delta
Book Group Discussion-Sigma Tau Delta
Read A J Verdelle's THE GOOD NEGRESS over winter break and then come out and talk about it with friends and members of Sigma Tau Delta. Books for sale at Morris Book Shop.
Reception for Students Interested in Creative Writing
Canvas VS Blackboard
I have been taking ITIQ Web Publishing (A&S 100-205) which uses Canvas a system that is similar to Blackboard but in my opinion it functions much better. One of the first things that I noticed about Canvas was that the login page took you straight to your course, where BB (Blackboard) takes you to another landing page where you have to select your course from a list. Another thing that Canvas does better than BB was the way that you can switch between courses, there is a drop down at the top of the page that you just select a different course. This is much better than having to go back to the BB landing page, wait for it to load and then select another course from the list.
Canvas is much faster and everything on a page loads very quickly. There are two sections on the BB landing page that I don’t know what they are about because they never load, which doesn’t matter because all I want are my courses anyways.
A Mistake on the Edge of Time: Rusty Barrett on the Mayan Calendar
Most of us heard that the world was going to possibly end on December 21st, 2012, and that it was predicted by the traditional Mayan calendar. In this podcast, Rusty Barrett, a linguist and scholar of Mayan culture and history, explains the superstitions and misunderstandings surrounding December 21st, and a little bit about how the Mayan calendar works.
Compassionate Education
Geography and compasses go hand in hand. Sometimes a compass can help you with your physical direction, but in Raven Newberry’s case her degree in geography from the University of Kentucky served as a compass to locate her passion for social justice.