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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.
Abdul-Qadir Al-Mosuli published a blog post BIOL 207 August Lab Ride Share in the group Science Lab Students- Darren Hurren commented on the blog Questions on COMP444 Assignments
- Darren Hurren published a blog post General discussion on sensors
- Darren Hurren published a blog post Unit 4 - Food for thought (Chapters 7, 8 & 9)
- Xing Li published a blog post COMP 361 - Reflection on Assignment 4
- Xing Li published a blog post SCIE 326 - Unit 15 Notes
- Mike Sosteric created a wiki page What referencing style should I use? in the group Athabasca University Sociology
- Darren Hurren published a blog post COMP444 Final Project Ideas
- Xing Li published a blog post SCIE 326 - Unit 14 Notes
- Xing Li published a blog post SCIE 326 - Unit 12 & 13 Notes
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BIOL 207 August Lab Ride Share
By Abdul-Qadir Al-Mosuli in the group Science Lab Students 2 days agoPosted to group: Science Lab StudentsI would like to know if there is anyone willing to give me a ride from Edmonton to Athabasca on Aug 25 and then back from Athabasca to Edmonton on Aug 30. I am an out of province student and would really appreciate if someone could give me a ride. -
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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A Canadian Repatriation Story: the Kwakwaka'wakw Sun Mask
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group July 30, 2019 - 9:22amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupAnthropology 272 (Introduction to Archaeology) students can read about the successful repatriation of a Kwakwaka'wakw artifact's return to a British Columbia First Nation which has taken place nearly a century after its theft. Read... -
AU Anthroplogy Student wins Award
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group July 25, 2019 - 10:38amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupCongratulations to Anthropology program student, A. Megan Williams, who has been awarded an OUTSTANDING GRADUATING ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENT AWARD 2019 from the Canadian Anthropology Society. Megan graduated from the program this year and has been... -
Unit 6: Using Libraries, Diary
By Michel Desmarais July 12, 2019 - 8:28pmInitially, learning jQuery was a little intimidating. Shortened expressions with additional brackets and syntax. However, after going through a few examples, I started to understand its simplicity and power in manipulating the... 
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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. -
What version of the Sparkfun Inventor's Kit did everyone get?
By Darren Hurren April 22, 2019 - 6:00pm Comments (3)Hey, I received the SIK version 4.0 which included the SIK guide v4.0a. I noticed in the Instructors Notebook that we are supposed to be using the SIK guide version 3.3 and also read in a recent post from another student that they were also using... -
George Siemens says he was wrong about networks. Well, not exactly wrong...
By Jon Dron 30 March 2019 @ 8:35pmwww.linkedin.com - A characteristically smart and articulate post from George Siemens explaining why a view of the universe as nothing but networks all the way down - that he has supported in the past - is not sufficient to explain everything that matters. As George... -
The Woman in White: A Detective Sensation
By Bev Schellenberg March 27, 2019 - 5:48pmThe modern detective novel grew from several historical roots, and The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, figures prominently along its timeline.
- 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
