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Mark A. McCutcheon posted to the wire- Daniel Wilton uploaded the file CIDER Session 30 Sep 2020 card in the group Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research - CIDER
- Daniel Wilton uploaded the file CIDER Session 30 Sep 2020 thumb in the group Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research - CIDER
- Daniel Wilton uploaded the file CIDER Session 30 Sep 2020 banner in the group Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research - CIDER
- Mark A. McCutcheon published a blog post On fielding a press inquiry about how pop culture depicts the oil industry
- Jenny Chun Chi Lien commented on a bookmark Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat. - The New York Times in the group COMP 650: Social Computing
- Mark A. McCutcheon published a blog post "Who would one have to be to sit in that normal restfully?"
- Jon Dron commented on a bookmark Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat. - The New York Times in the group COMP 650: Social Computing
- Jenny Chun Chi Lien commented on a bookmark Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat. - The New York Times in the group COMP 650: Social Computing
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Distributed Teaching
By Jon Dron 16 May 2020 @ 10:14am Comments (3)link.springer.com - I forgot to share this when it first came out at the end of last year. This is my contribution to Springer's Encyclopedia of Teacher Education, a brief (3000 word) article that gives a broad overview of the main ways in which the role of a teacher... -
Free Online Archaeology Field Course
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown April 21, 2020 - 7:44am Comments (2)Want to learn the basics of field archaeology---for free!?! Check out Dig Venture's "How to Do Archaeology Course" https://digventures.com/shop/how-to-do-archaeology/ -
Earth Day: The roots of our current environmental crisis go back 12,000 years
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown April 20, 2020 - 7:28pmANTH 277 students, who cover the origins of agriculture, may find this article useful. It is an interesting take on the topic—minus the obvious political platitudes (e.g. how we need to learn from others but without critical consideration of... -
Imigongo in Rwanda
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown April 9, 2020 - 8:43am Comments (1)From the Ashes: Rwanda’s Traditional Imigongo Art Is on the Rise Very interesting article about an art form that was almost lost. The section describing the process is particularly interesting for... -
Coronavirus Rituals
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown April 3, 2020 - 8:41am Comments (2)An article by anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas about the role that ritual is playing during the COVID-19 pandemic, including as an anxiety response, providing connection, and as a tool of... -
Patty Hajdu brings anthropology, public health experience to coronavirus fight
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown April 5, 2020 - 11:39am Comments (1)Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu has a background in anthropology (and she's from my hometown :) ). Read this interesting piece from the Globe and Mail that discusses her important background and what it brings to our current... -
Seven Warning Signs of Pseudoarchaeology
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown March 20, 2020 - 11:23am Comments (2)All archaeology students--and members of the general public--should be aware of pseudoarchaeology and how to spot it. Check out this great summary of the 7 warning signs of pseudoarchaeology (I've probably posted it before, but it is totally worth... -
The makers of the game complaining about the people playing it
By Jon Dron 5 March 2020 @ 12:20pmwww.cbc.ca - ""I think as long as we have education, we're going to have people who are going to try and game the system and we just have to keep up with them," said Deb Eerkes, the university's director of student conduct and accountability. " (40 University... -
EDDE802 Group Wiki
Last updated January 4, 2016 - 2:46pm by Rita Zuba Prokopetz in the group EDDE802: Advanced Research Methods in Education Comments (1)Posted to group: EDDE802: Advanced Research Methods in EducationBrainstorming... research interest, research question, conceptual framework, research paradigms, -
MDDE 610 Assignment #2: Learn Something with CAI or Mobile Apps
By Bhavik Patel June 4, 2019 - 10:53amLearning how to dribble with the use of the Mobile App "DribbleUp" it's a smart basketball app. - By David H. Scott April 5, 2019 - 1:05pmChrome Browser Bookmarking Extension for the Landing - https:/
/ chrome.google.com/ webstore/ detail/ ninikahfdpgbnjmgjcddiibmnemgmihk -
The Myth of 'Learning Styles'
By Jon Dron 18 May 2019 @ 12:47pmgetpocket.com - A straightforward journalistic article from the Atlantic that does a decent job of explaining how and why learning styles theories simply don't work, with a particular focus on VARK. The takeaways are that, yes, people do often prefer to learn in... -
Catch Up on Screen Time: Read This Dracula Critique
By Bev Schellenberg April 16, 2019 - 8:02pmMy parents felt a child’s time was best spent outside, on homework, and in extra-curricular pursuits, so my screen time was limited to one hour per week. The way I got to know any movie was through my father’s recounting the plot to me... -
Bringing Antagonists to their Knees… Or At Least to the Cereal Box
By Bev Schellenberg April 23, 2019 - 6:00pm Comments (2)Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, and Darth Vader share something in common: thanks to pop culture, they've been reduced to bobbleheads, children’s playthings, and types of cereal. -
Art from Residential Schools
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown April 4, 2019 - 10:58am Comments (1)Looking forward to seeing this exhibit next month when I am in... -
Blackfeet Researcher Leads Her Tribe Back to Traditional Foods
By Janelle Baker March 28, 2019 - 3:40pmForced assimilation destroyed most nations’ diets, but now Native youth are learning to integrate local foods back into their daily lives. -
Archaeology & International Women's Day
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown March 8, 2019 - 9:01amIn celebration of International Women's Day, I'd like to recommend the following book: "Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure" by Amanda Adams Overview: "The first women archaeologists were Victorian era...
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Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat. - The New York Times
By Jon Dron 10 September 2020 @ 11:44am Comments (3)Posted to group: COMP 650: Social Computingwww.nytimes.com - This is a terrifying article on the all-powerful (in China) WeChat app, revealing some fascinating insights into the ways it is organized and policed - very literally - by Chinese authorities. As one source puts it, "The filter bubbles on WeChat... -
Facebook is a 'parallel universe' of lies and minisformation crafted to deliver the...
By Jon Dron 31 August 2020 @ 5:18pmboingboing.net - This is a commentary by Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing on a New York Times article describing how the far-right is exploiting Facebook with ruthless efficiency. At least, that's one way to look at it. Another, as Beschizza notes, is: "...that... -
Evaluating assessment
By Jon Dron August 24, 2020 - 2:03pmA group of us at AU have begun discussions about how we might transform our assessment practices, in the light of the far-reaching and quite inspirational AU Imagine plan and principles.This is an amazing - and rare - opportunity to... -
Kafkaesque and Orwellian technology design
By Jon Dron 19 August 2020 @ 3:08pmwww.theguardian.com - I am much indebted to the Romanian legal system for the examples it repeatedly provides of hard (rigid, inflexible, invariant) technologies enacted by human beings without the inconvenience, lack of accountability, or cost of actual machinery. I... -
WT.Social
By Jon Dron 18 August 2020 @ 10:31pm Comments (1)Posted to group: COMP 650: Social Computinghttps://wt.social/ - A social network that you can pay for, created by Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame). You can get in right away with no payment but I chose to pay because I believe in this kind of thing. It looks pretty cool, more set-like than network-like. From the... -
Blog Post #11
By Shannon August 6, 2020 - 7:56pmSome evaluative distinctions I look for when google searching is the most obvious, what website it is coming from. Many times searching a topic in Google can lead you to accredited websites or University sites I choose those instead of information...
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education - Twain
- The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a hearth to be lighted - Parlby
- We have a hunger of the mind, which asks for knowledge all around us - Mitchell
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever - Gandhi
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts
