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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.
Janelle Baker published a blog post Reuniting Nature and Culture: The North American Declaration on Biocultural Diversity in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group- Jill Diachuk published a blog post Week 14
- Jill Diachuk published a blog post Week 12
- Jill Diachuk published a blog post Week 11
- Jill Diachuk published a blog post Week 10
- Jill Diachuk published a blog post Week 9
- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post ‘Children in the Viking Age’ teaching guide for 5-8 year olds in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Chowdhury Sarker Jihan commented on a wiki page titled Week 12 - Looking Back
- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Week 12 - Looking BackComments
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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:/
/ 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 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...
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The Transition
By Jill Diachuk November 9, 2019 - 2:33pmWriting a critical review was a good way to start writing academically again in a shorter form. It has been around 4 years and change since I have had to writing a legitimate paper . By receiving feedback from the instructor, it gave me a number of... -
An Elbow’s approaches to revision
By MARC ROGER DICKNER in the group :: MAIS Blog :: October 20, 2019 - 10:53pmPosted to group: :: MAIS Blog ::After reading Elbow’s approaches to revision in his book Writing With Power, I found it to be most useful as it guided my revision with basic but to the point rhetorical questions. The criterion-based approach was very useful in my... -
Why I opted out of the Athabasca University Graduate Student Association...
By Steve Swettenham October 13, 2019 - 6:41amWhy I opted out of the Athabasca University Graduate Student Association... -
Super'Stylin' with Words (Style Guides)
By Charleen Stokes September 29, 2019 - 6:52pmIf this is how I come across in the eyes of people, I want my words to be seen the same.
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Expressing Myself as an Academic Writer
By Charleen Stokes September 21, 2019 - 2:45pmit is paramount to pick the right words, use the proper tone, and write in a proper style.
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COMP 361 - Reflection on Assignment 3
By Xing Li August 7, 2019 - 11:14am(net time: 332 min) When I tried to list system inputs, I made a mistake to list web interface, mobile interface and telephone interface as the three different system inputs. However, when I compared it with the... -
Unit 2: HTML Update
Posted to group: COMP 266Since I submitted my code for unit two, I feel as though I have improved my ability to code in HTML. With that being said, I simply wanted to update my original HTML files slightly so that it makes the website flow better. The most important... -
Questions on COMP444 Assignments
By Darren Hurren July 26, 2019 - 12:35pm Comments (2)This might be ridiculously obvious, but I’m not exactly sure what to do for the assignments 1, 2 & 3 in COMP444. I’ve been completing the weblogs in the COMP444 group as I go, but I’m not sure if I have to copy all my... -
Unit 1 - Chapter 1: Food for Thought
By Darren Hurren June 25, 2019 - 10:41amMatarić, M. J. (2007) The Robotics Primer - Chapter 1
- 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
All the best in the AI course, Philip. I suppose I'll see you in January 2020 (enrolled in the same course). As a matter of fact, professor Dr. Chang is my supervisor for one of their ongoing game-based learning projects ongoing.
In respect to data science, most of the individuals I know professionally are not grounded in AI theoretical aspects. Unless you're looking into AI research shops, an employer will settle with software engineering skills. In my experience, engineering skills are more valued in this domain.
It is mostly learning a few Python/R libraries, SQL and gumption in domain knowledge. However, once you focus on the Deep Learning part then machine learning, linear algebra, differential calculus begin to percolate. In all fairness, most of the time in data science is actually spent in data cleansing (some prefer to say data wrangling). As a matter of fact, there is a growing debate lately whether or not the data science fad is dying.
I'm currently enrolled in Data Mining (COMP 682). Along with the AI course, I hope to gain valuable academic insights into that aspect of IS.
Chowdhury Sarker Jihan December 1, 2019 - 8:49pm