Tech Tip: Canvas Dashboard

Honestly, I have to say I like Canvas over the old D2L. I know I am not exactly in the majority for this, but it is so easy to use. The dashboard makes everything so convenient, with everything in the same place. At the start of every semester, I change the colors on my classes so they are all a variant of the same color. For example, this semester, I have it is varying shades of grey, and last semester, I had it in varying shades of blue. I do this so it looks nice but each class is still separate from each other. I don't know if people realize they can even change the color overlays or remove them on the dashboard. If you use the Canvas app, the dashboard will even show you the current grade you have in every class. I really appreciate this because my grades have me stressed all the time, so I like to be on top of them. Finally, you don't even need to have all your classes on your dashboard. Only care about one? Hide the others. I would never do that though, my anxiety forbids it. Or even change it so it just shows recent activity. Honestly, it is pretty versatile.

Reading Notes: Celtic Fairy Tales Part B

Cottage from Wikimedia

Brewery of Eggshells

• Place of Strife (Twt y Cwmrws)
• Man and wife with their twins lived there
• Wife had to leave her twins for a day.
• She saw old elves with blue petticoats
• rushed home to see if her twins were okay and they were
• Over time, noticed the twins didn't grow
• Husband claims the twins aren't their real twins
• This is the strife that the house is named after... the husband and wife fighting
• Wise Man of Llandiloes
• wife went to him for advice
• "When you are getting dinner for the reapers, clear out the shell of a hen's egg and boil some potage in it, and then take it to the door as if you meant it as a dinner for the reapers. Then listen if the twins say anything. If you hear them speaking of things beyond the understanding of children, go back and take them up and throw them into the waters of Lake Ebyr. But if you don't hear anything remarkable, do them no injury."
• She threw those babies into a lake cuz they weren't hers. Stone cold. 
• Elves returned her children in exchange for their own.

Bibliography

Brewery of Eggshells from Changeling Legends from the British Isles by Dan Ashliman

Reading Notes: Celtic Fairy Tales Part A

Well from Pixabay

The Horned Women

• Someone comes to the door, demanding it be open
• the person is Witch of one Horn
• Both the women are carding wool
• What does this mean? Look it up later
• Horned women talks of other women, and then they show up
• Next women has two horns, also starts to spin wool
• This goes on 12 times total, each adding one horn
• None talk to the actual mistress of the house, just like.... taking up space in her home. Who does that? Just goes into someone's place and starts a wool spinning club?
• Mistress is paralyzed with a spell cast by the horned women
• They are using her as a servant it seems. They speak Irish.
• Some voice helped her repair her jug.
• "Return, and when thou comest to the north angle of the house, cry aloud three times and say, 'The mountain of the Fenian women and the sky over it is all on fire.'"
• This call hurt the horned women
• Voice helps the woman enchant her house so the horned women can't come back
• Had to do a series of things to restore the home.

Bibliography

The Horned Women from Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs