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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.
Charleen Stokes published a blog post Critically Reviewing Writing[q]uestions into understanding the answers not our own.
- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown uploaded the file Archaeology and Social Justice in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post Bannock and a Movie: September and October 2019 in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Charleen Stokes published a blog post Writing is Continuous Editing[m]any of these problems can be avoided if only I spend more time editing;
- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Week 1 Food for Thought: Online Materials
- Arshdeep Sekhon created a wiki page Collaboration Summary
- Jasmin Gallant published a blog post Website accessibilities and potential errors in the group COMP 266
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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... -
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
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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... -
Unit 0 - Orientation
By Jasmin Gallant in the group COMP 266 August 28, 2019 - 2:55pmPosted to group: COMP 266Hello everyone, I mistakenly created wikis instead of blog posts and sent my first post in another group! But now ... I know better! My name is Jasmin gallant and I will be submitting my work for each unit as I review them. I did most of the... -
General discussion on sensors
By Darren Hurren August 16, 2019 - 12:04pmThere are a multitude of sensors currently available for robotics, and in addition to that, new sensors are always in development and the ones that are already available are always being improved. Here’s a list of the most common sensors... -
Wisdom Engaged Book now available
By Janelle Baker in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group July 23, 2019 - 11:47amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupThis booked, edited by Professor Emeritus in anthropology at Athabasca University, Leslie Main Johnson, is based on a gathering in Edmonton that was supported by Athabasca University and a SSHRC Connection grant. I have a chapter in it co-authored... -
Threw out my back
By Bhavik Patel June 9, 2019 - 7:29pm Comments (1)Okay, not sure if it was the excessive dribbling practice..but i went to bend over and pick up the ball and threw my back out. This happened Friday and today is Sunday. I have called the Dr. to request an appt. I am more concerned b/c in January i... -
COMP 361 - Week 2 Notes
By Xing Li May 8, 2019 - 11:58amUnit 2 Approaches (Net time: 154 min) Section 1 General approachesPredictive SDLC: for building systems well understood and defined7 phases: 6+support (maintain/enhance system + support users with help desk to keep the system running productively,...
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- 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
