Tech Tip: Canvas Profile

This week I decided to add a picture to my Canvas profile! I realized I didn't have a picture and my profile was left blank. This makes it hard for teachers and other students to put a face to my name! I decided to keep my display name the same and not add a bio! But I think adding a picture was a good step in the right direction! Here's a picture of my new profile!

Learning Challenge: Time Management

Time management is very important to me. This semester I am battling taking 24 credit hours, being a student athlete, and being involved in my sorority. This requires me to manage out every aspect of my time. I have found that using even a free hour in the day to get as much done makes a big difference in the end. A lot of times when I get home from the day, I just want to lay on the couch. But that results in me staying up later at night to finish my homework and be tired the next day. By getting as much done early in the day, I can actually have less anxiety in the long run. With a busy schedule like mine, time management is a requirement!

Time Management. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Growth Mindset: Cats

Cats are so funny and versatile. They can accurately depict the emotions we are feeling in several different ways. This week, I decided to explore the Growth Mindset Cats and share some of my favorites.

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(In order to learn, we must prove and poke)

I liked this one because it shows that we need to explore in order to learn. I learn by doing rather than watching or listening because then I can really understand and get a good grasp on the concept.

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(Failure hurts, but it does not define me)

This one really resonated with me because there have been many times in my life that I have both succeeded and failed. Although success was fun and thrilling, I learned more from failing and I used that hurt to help set new goals and do better the next time. Failing sucks but we should use it as motivation rather than defeat.

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(We do things better together)

I loved this one because success doesn't come without help. I'm currently on the OU Pom Squad which is very much a team sport. I don't do anything without my teammates by my side and they help push me to be better both inside the gym and on the field, and also outside in the real world. We should use the support from the people around us to make ourselves better.

Week 13 Story: Sir Lancelot and the Five Hundred Knights

As Lancelot made his way through the forest, he met with many hermits and had an adventure with the Knight who stole his horse and his helm and got them back again. He learned from one of the hermits that Sir Galahad was his son and that it was he who at the Feast of Pentecost had sat in the Siege Perilous, which it was ordained by Merlin that no one should sit in it and save the best Knight in the world. All night, Sir Lancelot abode with the hermit and laid him to rest.

In the morning, he told the hermit goodbye and rode away. He came to a fair plain with a great castle. There were a full five hundred Knights on horseback, and those near the castle were mounted on black horses with black trappings, and white horses with white trappings. The two sides fought and Sir Lancelot looked on.

It seemed that the black Knights nearest to the castle were doing worse so Sir Lancelot rode to aid in the fight. He smote many white Knights but the white Knights did their best to tire him out. No Knight can fight forever so Lacelot eventually got so tired he could not even lift his arms. The white Knights took him away into the forest to let him rest.

"I was the best fighter, but now I am shamed and am more sinful than ever." said Sir Lancelot. Once we was rested, he rode his horse until he found a chapel with a nun. She asked him his name and what he was seeking.

"Ah Lancelot," said she, "you were the most wonderful man in the world and the most adventures, if you lost the tournament, that is no marvel. It was a sign and the black Knights were a sign of the sins they still hold. The white Knights were on their way to holiness and then the quest has already begun for them. You saw both sides: the sinners and the good men. When you saw the sinners overcome, you went in to help. That's what caused your misadventure. I beware that you will have everlasting pain for all white Knights have pity for you. Since you have chosen the wrong side and still carry all your sins, you shall be sent to hell," said the nun.

Sir Lancelot feared his fate for he was just trying to help the black Knights. For the rest of his life, he did everything in his power to rid his sins and prove to the nun that he did not deserve to go to hell for what he did.

Author's Note: The original story has Lancelot fighting with the black Nights and the white Knights taking him off into the woods once he gets tired. When he finds the nun, she only warns him that he saw both sides and that all earthly Knights have pity for him. I changed it to where Lancelot is punished for accidentally helping the black Knights so he can do everything in his power for the rest of his life to prove that he was not wrong. I just wanted to add in a little twist at the end instead of having the nun only warning Lancelot.

Sir Lancelot and the Five Hundred Knights by Andrew Lang.

Lancelot. Source: Wikipedia

Reading Notes: An Adventure of Sir Gawaine

Sir Gawaine rode long without meeting any adventure, and from Pentecost to Michaelmas, nothing pleased him. However, at Michaelmas, he met Sir Ector de Maris and rejoiced greatly. They started talking and they noticed a hand appeared before them showing only until the elbow covered with red samite and was holding a burning candle. The hand vanished into the chapel.

They next heard a voice that said, "Knights full of evil faith and poor belief, these two things have failed you, and therefore you may not come to the adventure of the Holy Graal." The same voice told them a holy man they confessed their sins to said, "you have failed in three things: charity, fasting, and truth, and have been great murderers. But sinful as Sir Lancelot was, since he went into the quest he never slew man, nor shall, till he come into Camelot again. For he has taken upon him to forsake sin. And were he not so unstable, he should be the next to achieve it, after Galahad his son. Yet shall he die a holy man, and in earthly sinful men he has no fellow."

"Sir, you words makes it seem that our sins will not let us labour in that quest?" asked Gawaine.

"Truly," answered the voice, "there be a hundred such as you whom it will bring naught but shame." So Gawaine departed and followed Sir Ector, who had ridden on before.

An Adventure of Sir Gawaine by Andrew Lang.

Sir Gawaine. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Reading Notes: The Sword Excalibur

King Arthur had fought a hard battle with the tallest Knight and although he fought hard, he would have done better had Merlin not enchanted the Knight and cast him into a deep sleep. The king went to a hermit who studied the art of healing and healed all his wounds in three days.

As they left, Arthur said, "I have no sword," but Merlin told him to have patience and he would get him one soon. They came to a large lake and in the middle an arm rose up out of the water holding a sword.

"Look!" said Merlin. "That is the sword I spoke of. The king looked again and a maiden stood on the water. "That is the Lady of the Lake," said Merlin, "and she is coming to you, and if you ask her courteously she will give you the sword."

When the maiden got close Arthur saluted her and said, "Maiden, I pray you will tell me whose sword is that which an arm is holding out of the water? I wish it were mind, for I have lost my sword."

"That sword is mine, King Arthur," she answered, "and I will give it to you, if you in return will give me a gift when I ask you."

"By my faith," said the King, "I will give you whatever gift you ask."

"Well, get into the barge yonder and row yourself to the sword and take it with you. As for my gift, I will ask on my own time."

They got off their horses and went to the barge. They grabbed the sword and heading back toward land.

"I like the sword over the scabbard," said Arthur. "That is not wise to say, the scabbard is worth ten of the sword. If it is buckled on you, you will lose no blood but you may be wounded." said Merlin. They rode back into town and Arthur's Knights gave them a glad welcome saying it was a joy to serve under a King who risked his life as much as any other man.

The Sword Excalibur by Andrew Lang.

Sword Excalibur. Source: Pixabay