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Janelle Baker published a blog post FERAL: A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group- Janelle Baker published a blog post Cottage country conflict over wild rice leads to years of rising tensions in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Fairouz Alatabeh published a blog post Some few steps and I will start writing my literature review!
- Daniel Wilton uploaded the file CIDER Session slides November 2018 in the group Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research - CIDER
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- Gerald Ardito commented on the file Beyond learning outcomes
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- Laura Roberts published a blog post Critical Review Vs Literature Review
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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 -
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...
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Cottage country conflict over wild rice leads to years of rising tensions
By Janelle Baker in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group 5 hours agoPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupWaterfront residents and local First Nations at odds over increase in wild rice beds on Pigeon Lake -
Some few steps and I will start writing my literature review!
By Fairouz Alatabeh 20 hours agoNow, since the first step of selecting a literature review topic has done... I will start the second step of my research of finding articles'sources' that is related to my topic. I will save them on a file and start reading them till I feel that... -
Unit 2: HTML Site Building
By Mohamed Yehya in the group COMP 266 August 24, 2018 - 11:56amPosted to group: COMP 266This unit was about HTML Site Building. I always find it hard writing an the entire page of simple html without using any kind of styling -
Climate Change and Archaeology
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group August 17, 2018 - 9:24amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupWe are currently witnessing climate change developments around the world--many of which are causing serious problems today. However, for archaeology, many of these changes are proving to be quite fruitful. Whether it is forest fires in Waterton or... -
Public Archaeology Opportunity
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group July 10, 2018 - 9:59amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupCheck out this opportunity to volunteer on a field archaeology project this summer in Alberta.
UNIT-1 website plans
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UNIT-1 Learning Diary
By Gaurav Khanna in the group COMP 266 July 9, 2018 - 1:56amPosted to group: COMP 266This Unit was a little challenging as per me. Thinking about the website topics and then thinking what content to put in it and how to put it in. I wanted to do travel blog because I like traveling and it was a little bit tough on getting the...
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