Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Cool Free Web Tools

1. Post an audio content to your blog using Gabcast.

Gabcast! FHS Mythology #1



2. Post a Powerpoint presentation to your blog using Slideshare.

Halverson, Caity. "The Three Nations." Powerpoint Presentation. March 2007.

The Three Nations
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.



3. Create a multimedia project to which people may add comments using Voicethread.











4. Create a different blog using Tumblr.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

FHS Library MLA Citation Handout

Use the FHS Library MLA Citation Handout to cite your sources (including images) and avoid plagiarism.

Citing Images, Sound or Video Clips

In order to cite an image, sound or video clip, you need to have the following pieces of information. Information needs to be listed in this order as a continuous line of text, with information carrying over to additional lines indented. Follow punctuation standards as provided.

Author (if available)
"Title/Description"
Date of Publication (MLA Standards - Date Month Year; no dashes or abbreviations)
Medium (sound clip, painting, photograph, map)
Title of web page/site
Date of download/access.
Web Address

Author (Last name, first name). "Title or Description." Date of Publication. Medium. Title of Page. Date of Access. URL Address.



Nightowl. "Myths of the World." 1947. Collage. Joseph Campbell Mythology Resource Page. 27 October 2008. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Sparta/9277.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Final Evaluation Project

Students will be in the writing center for the next three days completing their final project for Quarter 1 evaluation.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Posting/Linking Mythology Definitions

1. Use the 3 different search/evaluation tools from yesterday's lecture to find QUALITY websites that connect your definitions/examples to information, pictures, stories found on the internet.

2. Evaluate 2 of your linked sites using the criterea from the handout.

3. Post your definitions for the 13 definitions we have been working with from class.

Myth
Hero
Hero Journey
Universal
Cyclical
Life from Death
Duality
Cosmology
Archetype
Creation
Matriarchal
Patriarchal
Sacrifice

Write your definitions using complete sentences and complete thoughts. Do not just list words and phrases from your notes.

4. Provide examples for each word/definition from our readings and discussions.


Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Enuma Elish and Osiris, Iris, and Horus

Read another version of the Mesopotamia creation myth in your World Mythology books (page 153-158) and they Egyptian myths of Osiris, Iris and Horus (162-168).

Answer these questions.