Tech Tip: Canvas Notifications

I can honestly say that I never knew canvas could make notifications for pretty anything. However, I have made several changes my preferences, so that it will notify me when my professors make a change to the course or send out anything to the entire class. Personally, I preferred to check every box, so that I don't miss any sort of news. Why not? I have already received several notifications about new assignments uploaded, among other things. I'm sure this will come in handy and help me better anticipate events to stay organized. Anyway, I have said it a million times, I love Canvas. It get better and better and I hope to continue to utilize it.

                                            
                                                  Round of applause for the GOAT: Canvas

Famous Last Words: Week 14

Hey everyone! I hope everyone’s week has gone well. I have had quite an eventful one so I’m going to treat this post as my venting mechanism haha. First, this Oklahoma weather has been so bipolar but who is complaining about getting to wear shorts every day?! That’s being said, I’ve done most of my writing for this course and my others on the road since I’ve made a trip up to Des Moines, where I will be attending medical school in the fall. So, writing has been interesting to say the least but I must say that sometimes I prefer putting some work in, then stepping away to re-approach it later with a fresh mind. Also, I’m sure like most of us, I have really been trying to take advantage of the extra credit lately. Posts like these have helped take advantage of some of the other aspects of the course and have been a lot of fun. In addition, I have learned a lot of great stuff from learn smart. I hope to utilize some of the tools that I have read about in the articles that I have posted over and some that I have yet to post about. Moreover, tech tips have really come in handy as well. If you haven’t had the chance to do any of these, I would highly recommend, especially the tech tips about canvas. I think canvas has been such a helpful platform and I couldn’t be happier that the university made the transition to a much more user friendly platform. Anyway, I am now back home and I am going to do my best to tackle the rest of my courses and finish the semester strong. But like I said, I think that I will begin with this course so that I can write some and give myself the opportunity to return. I have found that I do my best work when I do this. 

                                                    

                                           I want this guy to read all of my post titles!

Reading Notes: Francis and Thomas, Jataka Tales, Part C

In the last week of this course I plan on finishing up the Jataka Tales by Francis and Thomas which includes Part C and D. While reading part C I was able to get abetter understating of the writing style used and the stories were easier to read and seemed to flow much better. I enjoyed reading the story, "The Stolen Jewels." In my own story I plan on having somewhat of a similar plot. Only instead of Jewels such as a pearl necklace, I plan on having a cookie be stolen. I plan on calling my story "Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?" And who steals it will actually be the family cat. But, we will have to go through a lot of suspects before we get to that conclusion. For instance, just like in the original story a boy was caught and asked did you steal the necklace and admitted he did but because he did it for the glide master who buts the blame on someone else and this cycle goes on for a while. In my own story I plan on having the same order of events just with different characters Such as the mom asks her son, who blames her sister, then she's blames the dad and so on.


Bibliography: Jataka Tales by H.T. Francis and E. J. Thomas. Link to Reading.

The Cookie Jar.  

Reading Notes: Francis and Thomas, Jataka Tales, Part B

For my extra credit reading I went ahead and read the next part of the Jataka Tales by Francis and Thomas. I enjoyed the stories in this section yet sometimes it was difficult to understand some of the content because of the way the stories were written. However, the story "The Brothers and the Treasure" is one that really stood out to me and I felt gave me a lot of inspiration for my own story. For instance, at the beginning of the original story there is this charm that when the planets are arranged in a certain manner and the charm is repeated 7 precious things rain down which include: gold, silver, pearl, coral, catseye, ruby and diamond. In my story I plan on having this same set up only instead of expensive things I plan on having different types of food rain down. For example, when the planets align and the charm is said the following will fall down from the sky: pizza, hamburgers, french fries, gum-balls, reeses, gummy worms, and queso. I plan on making my story very outrageous and humorous, but still somewhat sticking to the plot of the original story.

Bibliography: Jataka Tales by H.T. Francis and E. J. Thomas. Link to Reading

Fries, Pizza, Hamburgers.. Oh my!

Reading Notes: Francis and Thomas, Jataka Tales, Part A

For this week and next week I plan on reading, Jataka Tales by H. T. Francis and E. J. Thomas. I thought these tales of part A were really cool and interesting. My favorite was the story called "The Oldest Animal," I thought the concept to this story was really neat and it would be cool to use this template to create my own story. I plan on keeping the same theme however I plan on changing the types of animal characters. For instance, instead of a partridge, monkey, and elephant, I'm going to have a tiger, crocodile, and pheasant. And I actually think I will change the plot a little. In my story my animals wont be able to agree on who is the oldest so since they cannot agree they decide to go live in separate areas. The crocodile will inhabit the rivers and swamps, the tiger will be on land in the jungles, and the pheasants will belong to the sky.

Bibliography: Jataka Tales by H.T. Francis and E.J. Thomas. Link to reading.

The Tiger.

Reading Notes: Shedlock. Eastern Stories and Legends, Part D

For my first reading notes this week I decided to go ahead and finish the last section of the Jataka Tales from the Eastern Stories and Legends book by Marie Shedlock. Some of the stories in part D were somewhat hard to grasp because it was written in old english and the theme of the story wasn't always clear. However one story did stand out to me which was "The Poisonous Tree."I thought this story had a dark gothic vibe to it but at the same time had a lesson within the story which I thought was pretty neat. In my own story I plan on keeping the same setting as the original story, such as there will be a village inside the woods and on the path to the next town instead of there being a poisonous tree, there will be a poisonous stream. And instead of the villagers coming to take the travelers goods and belongs like in the original story, my villagers seek youthfulness. What I mean by this is the poisonous stream has been put under a spell where everyone who drinks it will parish except for the villagers, because when they drink the stream they stay young, beautiful, and will live longer and longer. However, my main character the leader will discover the villages evil secret and it will be up to him to warn the travelers of this stream and hopefully find a way to break the spell.


Bibliography: Eastern Stories and Legends by Marie Shedlock. Link to Reading.

Stream in the Woods. 

Tech Tip: Canvas Profile

I just finished editing profile which was really fun LOL. I changed my bio to my more recent information including that I will be in Des Moines School of Medicine class of '22. I left my name the same since everyone usually calls me by my name. Also, I uploaded a picture of my dog Charlie, who is such a good boy!! Professor Gibbs said it didn't matter what picture it was so this picture will let everyone know my priorities haha.

                                          
    I've uploaded an image of the Canvas log because I just think Canvas has been the best platform