The Bovine County Fairy Tale Festival is underway. Our weekly Around The World workshops are a place to learn more about a culture and to build your creative digital muscles. Participate in a workshop anytime or dip your digital toes into all nine!
Week 2: The Celts Cometh & Designing Destiny
Resources:
“This anthology of Celtic folklore tales by Joseph Jacobs is one of the best of the crop. It includes some great tales such as “Munachar and Manachar”, the “Brewery of Eggshells”, and “Fair, Brown and Trembling”. Jacobs also includes an extensive Notes and References section if you want to follow up on each tale.”
- https://archive.org/details/celticfairytale00jacorich
- http://www.authorama.com/celtic-fairy-tales-29.html
Scottish:
“This is a collection of Scottish folklore which will appeal to all ages. There are animal tales, stories of the fairies of Scotland including Brownies, Bogles, Kelpies, Mermaids and others, and tales of Witches and of Giants. While many of the themes are similar to other European folk-tales, this collection emphasizes specifically Scottish aspects of the stories.”
- http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/blog/reading/2014/06/5-reasons-why-fairy-tales-are-good-for-children
- http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandsstories/
- http://www.compassrose.org/folklore/scottish/Scottish-Folktales.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scottish_fairy_tales
- https://archive.org/details/scottishfairyfol00doug
- http://www.electricscotland.com/kids/stories/
- http://oaks.nvg.org/scottish-folktales.html
- http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/scotland.html
- Folklore, Folktales, and Fairy Tales
Irish:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Fairy_Tales
- http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ift/
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry – [1888] “This is an anthology of Irish folklore, edited by W. B. Yeats. Many of these stories are from books which are archived at this site; some are from books which have yet to be converted to etext or now-rare source material. He selected many of the best (and often funniest) tales from other writers such as Lady Wilde, Croker, Lover, Hyde, and Carelton. Yeats wrote introductory material and notes to many of these stories.”
- The Project Gutenberg EBook of Irish Fairy Tales, by James Stephens
This week’s digital skills workshop: It’s All By Design
To assist festival-goers in further developing their digital literacy skills and establishing a personal digital identity, each week we highlight a different topic being sponsored by the Bank of DS106 Assignment with volunteer support from the Open DS106 community. This week we offer “It’s All By Design”.
Rather than specifying “assignments” everyone is encouraged to learn more about the topic, Design, by visiting the Open DS106 Syllabus and choosing something to create from an array of digital design projects. Each project links to examples of work completed by others. They also include links to tutorials that can help you learn how to complete the work. By tagging your web related posts (either on the Burgeron Family blog or a personal blog) with both DesignAssignments and DesignAssignments#### your work will be added to the list of examples. We found these tips for writing up ds106 Assignments in a blog post most helpful.
The Burgeron family blog is always available for posting. (If you need editor access or help let us know.) Or you can post to your own personal blog. Let us know there’s something new with a tweet tagged with #burgeron106 and posting a quick note at our DS106 Google+ Community.
Extra Extra Read All About It….
Celtic folk-tales, while more numerous, are also the oldest of the tales of modern European races. They include (1) fairy tales properly so-called–i.e., tales or anecdotes about fairies, hobgoblins, &c., told as natural occurrences; (2) hero-tales, stories of adventure told of national or mythical heroes; (3) folk-tales proper, describing marvellous adventures of otherwise unknown heroes, in which there is a defined plot and supernatural characters (speaking animals, giants, dwarfs, &c.); and finally (4) drolls, comic anecdotes of feats of stupidity or cunning. (reference source)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_nations
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