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Mark A. McCutcheon posted to the wire- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post Vilified to Vindicated: the Story of Jacques Cinq-Mars in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post Bannock and a Movie: April 2018 in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Sandra Law bookmarked Robert Kroetch's "What the Crow Said" and Endless Winter in the group Literary Weather
- Mark A. McCutcheon posted to the wire
- Debbie Hermes commented on the blog James Mellaart and Çatalhöyük: A New Controversy in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post SCRAP on Facebook and Instagram in the group AU Anthropology Interest GroupDr. Peuramaki-Brown's archaeology project in Belize, The Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project (SCRAP), is now on Facebook and Instagram. Like/Follow us to get up-to-date reports from our field season in Belize starting this May, as well as other...
- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post How to keep endangered languages alive. in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post Jane's Walk Calgary in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Victor Truong created a wiki page Unit 4 task 2
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When Whales and Humans Talk
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group April 6, 2018 - 2:56pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest Group"Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries—and scientists are finally taking... -
Decoding Prehistoric Art
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 16, 2018 - 10:01amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupANTH 277 Students: Check out this CBC Ideas episode about prehistoric art http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/old-masters-decoding-pre-historic-art-with-jean-clottes-1.4487646 -
The Solutrean Hypothesis and Pseudoarchaeology
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 16, 2018 - 10:13amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupANTH 277 Students: Some of you may have seen the documentary featured on CBCs Nature of Things this Sunday, titled Ice Bridge, about the Solutrean Hypothesis. Please read the following important review of this extremely problematic documentary:... -
What is in a name? Words as Symbols of past and present.
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 5, 2018 - 9:05amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupStudents enrolled in Anthropology 272: Introduction to Archaeology who are seeking specific examples of the use of symbols by ethnic groups may find this recent article in the Calgary Herald of interest. The 108 year old Langevin Bridge... -
Academic Integrity Webinar - Jan. 30, 5-6 pm (Mountain Time)
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 29, 2018 - 10:41amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupAU Library & Scholarly Resources, in cooperation with AU’s Office of the Registrar, will be presenting a webinar on Academic Integrity tomorrow, January 30, from 5 to 6 pm Mountain Time. This session will be presented by Elaine Fabbro,... -
Music for studying
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 9, 2018 - 10:04am Comments (1)Posted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupNeed a break from studying? Need some background music while studying? You can access the AU Music Library at any time. http://news.athabascau.ca/arts/music-library-may/ -
The Gault School of Archaeological Research
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 5, 2018 - 9:39amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupI recently received a Christmas letter from a longtime friend who was previously employed by the Archaeological Survey of Alberta and two CRM (Cultural Resource Management) firms in Alberta and Texas. Mike (Quigg) reported... -
Trials, Tribulations, and Tweaking -- The Final Stretch
By Tyler Lucas December 12, 2017 - 1:16am Comments (4)The one where the robots take over the world because their designer misspelled one of Asimov's laws. -
Computer science students should learn to cheat, not be punished for it
By Jon Dron 31 May 2017 @ 10:45am Comments (1)thenextweb.com - This is a well thought-through response to a recent alarmist NYT article about cheating among programming students. The original NYT article is full of holy pronouncements about the evils of plagiarism, horrified statistics about its extent, and... -
terra0 - a forest that will one day buy itself
By Jon Dron 19 December 2017 @ 10:58ampaulkolling.de - I love this art project - a forest that owns itself and that makes money on its own behalf, eventually with no human control or ownership. From the blurb... "The Project emerged from research in the fields of crypto governance, smart contracts,... -
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Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read?
By Jon Dron 18 March 2012 @ 1:56pm Comments (6)healthland.time.com - The answer to this question seems to be a guarded 'yes'. The issue seems to be that we remember things in books not just because of content but because of context - where it was on the page, where it was in the book. In fact, i can sometimes recall... -
A Universe Explodes: A Blockchain Book, from Editions At Play
By Jon Dron 1 December 2017 @ 7:42pm Comments (2)medium.com - A really nice project from the Editions at Play team at Google, in which blockchain is used both to limit supply to a digital book (only 100 copies made) and, as the book is passed on, to make it 'age,' in the sense that each reader must remove two... -
Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Wine Making
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group November 18, 2017 - 10:56amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupStudents enrolled in Anthropology 272: Introduction to Archaeology may find a recent report in the Globe and Mail has relevance to the discussion of residue analysis in Chapter 7 of the Renfrew and Bahn text, Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and... -
Firefox Quantum
By Jon Dron 14 November 2017 @ 11:09am Comments (1)Posted to group: COMP 266www.mozilla.org - The new version of Firefox is very sleek and very fast, while retaining backwards compatibility with older plugins. An easy upgrade for users of the previous version, a quick install for everyone else. An absolute must-have for any web developer.... -
mLearning and the Mona Lisa
By Rob Power November 5, 2014 - 2:28amLeave it to John Traxler to get me thinking! In his keynote address at mLearn 2014, Traxler used the Mona Lisa as an analogy for the disconnect between mLearning research and practice, and policy makers' expectations. He described policy makers'... -
Mobilizing the MOOC: A Review of Instructional Design for Mobile Learning (IDML13)
By Rob Power June 19, 2013 - 7:01amJenny Poole via FlickrMy latest... a review on MOOC News & Reviews about the Instructional Design for Mobile Learning (IDML13) micro-MOOC hosted by Academic... -
Link to Tony Bates' latest book (online open access textbook) Teaching in a Digital Age
Started by Madelaine Befus in the group EDDE 806 Doctoral Research Seminar January 18, 2015 - 5:45pmPosted to group: EDDE 806 Doctoral Research SeminarFYI - Tony Bates' latest textbook published using an open-access, Creative Commons license, is available here: http://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/ Tony is the 806 guest speaker for Feb. 19.
ASA Calgary - April 2018 newsletter
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Comp 361 - Introduction
By Daeton Wagar March 28, 2018 - 1:05amHello My name is Daeton andI am beginning my journey into Comp 361. I am a 37 year old man who works full time at a telecom company primarly working two roles as a Business analyst and project manager primarely dealing with systems... -
Canada's Candidates for UNESCO World Heritage status
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group December 21, 2017 - 10:53amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupEight new sites have been selected from a list of 42 proposals for future inclusion as World Heritage sites. Students enrolled in AU archaeology courses can see the article in the Globe and Mail.... -
Oh, shit, git!
By Jon Dron 18 December 2017 @ 8:40pm Comments (1)Posted to group: Programming & Problem Solvinghttp://ohshitgit.com/ - One for programmers and others, such as writers and scholars, using Git, which is (arguably, but IMHO) the best distributed and collaborative version control system available right now. This is a brief (nb. very brief) set of common (nb. very... -
Comp 266 Unit 6 - jQuery proposal review Assignment
By Charlie November 30, 2017 - 7:46pmReflections:JQuery proposal review Assignment I intend to use JQuery to improve and enhance the 'Contact' page that I currently have for my JavaScript program developed in Unit 5.Currently the validation has borders turn red after... -
Firefox Quantum
By Jon Dron 14 November 2017 @ 11:09am Comments (1)Posted to group: COMP 266www.mozilla.org - The new version of Firefox is very sleek and very fast, while retaining backwards compatibility with older plugins. An easy upgrade for users of the previous version, a quick install for everyone else. An absolute must-have for any web developer.... -
Some ideas to help the digital world for those lotto winners with too much money.
By Steve Swettenham November 14, 2017 - 3:11amlottof ideas
- 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
