The Mythic Landscape
All the course pages specific to Exploring the Mythic Landscape are shown below.
The Skills area (also available via the top menu) offers practical tutorials to help you improve your writing. These pages will be particularly useful during the weeks in which you are working on your projects.
Reading Project
Exploring Personal Stories
Jan. 9, 2024, 7:09 p.m. • Ross Laird
On this site you will see many resources — books , articles , videos — that focus on stories from the vast sea of cultural storytelling. The resources tend to focus on one particular tradition ...
Welcome
Exploring the Mythic Landscape
Jan. 5, 2024, 7:25 p.m. • Ross Laird
If history were the past, history wouldn’t matter. History is the present, the present. You and I are history. James Baldwin At the beach near our house, on a warm day in earl...
Self-awareness Project
Creativity is a Journey Inward
Jan. 5, 2024, 8:28 p.m. • Ross Laird
The self-awareness project is an opportunity to reflect upon the depth of your experience in the course. How did it go? What happened? What did you notice? What was diff...
Writing Project
Exploring the Mythic Landscape
Jan. 9, 2024, 7:10 p.m. • Ross Laird
The three projects in this course are designed to work together. You have a reading project, which is focused on helping to cultivate a lifelong love of reading. You hav...
Should You Publish Your Page?
Considerations and Cautions
Sept. 5, 2024, 12:27 a.m. • Ross Laird
Publishing on the web is the primary way in which modern writers begin their careers. It’s a normal and essential part of the writer’s process and toolkit. Websites, blogs, and social media posting...
Submitting a Project for Review
Steps and Tasks
Sept. 5, 2024, 12:27 a.m. • Ross Laird
How to Submit a Project Create a page. Review this page to see the steps for creating a page. Add text, images, links, and perhaps other items (such as videos) to your page. Review the page con...
Creating Content
Adding and Editing a Page
Sept. 5, 2024, 12:27 a.m. • Ross Laird
Wagtail is a digital publishing platform built with modern tools and technologies (such as Django and Python ). You don't need to know anything about these. As a contributor to the Lab, you...
First Steps with Wagtail
Basic Setup & Account Management
Sept. 5, 2024, 12:27 a.m. • Ross Laird
First things first: load this page on a computer. If you are on a phone, the steps described in the video below will still work, but they will be much easier and faster on a computer. Use whichever...
Sessions
Attend as much (or as little) as you like
Sept. 5, 2024, 12:27 a.m. • Ross Laird
This is an online class. It is designed so that you are able to complete the course in your own way and on your own schedule. Accordingly, there are no mandatory sessions (in-person or virtual). At...
Dates, Tasks, & Reminders
Narratives of Hope
Sept. 5, 2024, 12:27 a.m. • Ross Laird
# Week Reminders 1 September 9 Class Orientation: 19:00—20:00, via Zoom 1 Se...