Week 12 Famous Last Words... 3 weeks to go!

This week went really well! I prepared my talk for the OERxDomains conference, I'm honestly excited about it... I created randomized bingo cards! Plus I built a kind bingo generator that people can use to create their own cards with their own random words. When I was in college we used to make bingo cards for especially boring lectures, ha ha... and I'm still a believer in bingo as a way to pique people's curiosity and help them pay attention, even though of course I hope my talk won't be boring. The whole talk will be all about Storybooks over the years, and my goal is to inspire other teachers to think about how they might use websites in their classes. Here's a bingo card, and here's the generator. :-)

And on Tuesday................. I get my second Pfizer shot! WHOO-HOO!

Then the talk is on Wednesday, plus a follow-up VConnecting after the conference too!

And then it's just 19 days until the end of the semester (as of the time I'm writing this post), although I hope people will want to make a microfiction book together, and I'll probably be working on that during finals week. But anyway, the end is near, ha ha. And I am so excited about all the books I've got stacked up in heaps (heaps and heaps!) to read as soon as the semester is over. One of my latest discoveries is the writer and illustrator Ashley Bryan; I had bought a few of his books not even knowing who he was, and then I read his biography: what an amazing person! Here's his Wikipedia article. And here's a website dedicated to his work: Ashley Bryan Center.

I'm also really excited about a book that I just learned about today; it's a new edition of Apuleius's Golden Ass edited by Peter Singer, the animal rights activist and philosopher, with an essay he's written for the book, plus illustrations. I had been thinking about doing a Tiny Tales versions of Apuleius, and seeing this book made me even more certain that I should try to do something like that.