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February 2019: Sorry for the downtime Tuesday, 12th February. It was caused by an attempt to fix a small database error that in turn sparked a much bigger error.
Jon Dron published a blog post A simple phishing scam- Jon Dron bookmarked What is it to be Bayesian? The (pretty simple) math modelling behind a Big Data buzzword | Aeon...Comments
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Thanks, Samson and Sondra. Excellent educational song! It's what rap was invented for.
Jon Dron yesterday
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I love the rap. I can sing it all day now. Having fun and Learn. Thanks, Sondra for sharing!
Samson Mihirette yesterday
- Daniel Wilton uploaded the file CIDER Session slides 22 Jan 2020 in the group Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research - CIDER
- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post Canadian Archaeological Association 2020 Annual Meeting, Edmonton, May 6-9, 2020 in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
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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 Scott April 5, 2019 - 1:05pmChrome Browser Bookmarking Extension for the Landing - https:/
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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 in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group April 4, 2019 - 10:58am Comments (1)Posted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupLooking forward to seeing this exhibit next month when I am in... -
Blackfeet Researcher Leads Her Tribe Back to Traditional Foods
By Janelle Baker in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group March 28, 2019 - 3:40pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupForced 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 in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group March 8, 2019 - 9:01amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupIn 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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Its official as of November 14, 2018 - CALL TO ACTION
By Steve Swettenham November 15, 2018 - 3:35am Comments (1)CDE non-rep -
Microsoft under GDPR microscope for Office 365 and OneDrive | Alphr
By Jon Dron 15 November 2018 @ 12:04pm Comments (4)www.alphr.com - No big surprises here to anyone that has ever so much as glanced at Microsoft's business model and historical abuse of its customers, but definitely a matter of concern for organizations (like Athabasca University) that rent their services from... -
Digging up the devil (Poorly Drawn Lines)
By Jon Dron 11 May 2018 @ 2:00pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest Groupwww.poorlydrawnlines.com - I thought this might be of interest to this group... -
Tour of Alabama archaeological site
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group October 31, 2018 - 3:35pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupTo celebrate International Archaeology Day (Oct. 20th), AUs Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project released a video walking tour of the monumental core of the ancient Maya site of Alabama, in the Stann Creek District of Central Belize. Watch the... - By Mark A. McCutcheon August 27, 2018 - 9:32amMA-IS students can still enroll in this fall's zombie & vampire literature course: http:/
/ www.athabascau.ca/ syllabi/ mais/ mais752.php - By Terry Anderson January 18, 2016 - 12:46pmA grad student and a supervsor go into a bar. The supervsior orders a rough draft. Then 12 months of awkward silence.
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Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it
By Jon Dron 3 July 2018 @ 6:13pm Comments (1)aeon.co - An article for Aeon by Jon Tennant on the heinous state of affairs that gives unscrupulous publishers profit margins that put Apple to shame while hiding publicly funded research from the public that pays for it. It is a shamefully broken system...
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Montreal archaeologists uncover a cemetery for Irish immigrants fleeing the 1847 famine
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group November 28, 2019 - 11:13amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupArchaeologists digging at the site of a future light-rail station unearthed what is believed to be a cemetery for Irish immigrants who died after fleeing famine in 1847. ... -
Empowerment of Women and Girls--2019 CBC Massey Lectures
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group November 13, 2019 - 9:21amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupThis year's Massey Lecture is all about the empowerment of women and girls. This is broadcasted in 5 parts--live on radio or via podcast--and so far two have aired. This link lists the parts and you can click for the podcast of each as they appear.... -
New fossil ape discovered near Munich, Germany
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group November 6, 2019 - 7:42pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupA new fossil ape called Danuvius guggenmosi is featured in the journal, Nature, andmay be of interest to students in Anthropology 277 ( The Archaeology of Us)! The 11-12 million year old ape is reported to exhibit erect... -
CSS 266 UNIT 1 : SITE DESIGN (the city of Toronto)
By Tamer Shihab October 29, 2019 - 10:29amAttached is my first brief design of my website. included in the PDF is my personas, scenarios, site mock-up and site map. -
Week 5
By Jill Diachuk October 5, 2019 - 1:46pmWhich outlining approach do you use? How does that reflect your approach to writing? Consider whether one of the other approaches might be more effective for you. I’ve used a point form outline that first defines the topics/paragraph. From... -
Unit 5 - Writing JavaScript - IDEAS: Revised
Posted to group: COMP 266I have been working on the design stage of this unit for sometime now. One of my ideas was that of a weather application embedded in the webpage. Upon further investigation, I found that this will need a JavaScript API to function. Thus, I am... -
Writing is Continuous Editing
By Charleen Stokes September 11, 2019 - 9:01pm[m]any of these problems can be avoided if only I spend more time editing;
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Unit 7 - Using External Data Sources
By Jasmin Gallant in the group COMP 266 September 8, 2019 - 3:46pmPosted to group: COMP 266I followed some tutorials on Traversy media and went with the tutorials on w3schools and fix my email form to send data through the php file. ... -
Unit 5 - Writing JavaScript - IDEAS
Posted to group: COMP 266Hello all,Below I will be discussing my proposal of the three JavaScript ideas that I would like to work on in this chapter. While experimenting and researching JavaScript further, I had many ideas that could possibly make my website more...
- 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
For fun, I recommend looking up the song "Good Bayesian" by Baba Brinkman, it's very catchy!
Sondra Petrus yesterday