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Laurie Milne published a blog post Civil War Monuments as Symbols of Power in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group- Vandy Bowyer published a blog post Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference 2017 in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Laurie Milne published a blog post Apartment towers fail as community hubs in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Hongxin Yan published a blog post A 2016 Look At The Future of Online Learning in the group Teaching and Learning at AthabascaComments
- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post Confronting Cultural Imperialism in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Jon Dron published a blog post Strategies for successful learning at AU
- Farzia Dilawar Khan commented on the blog Unit 3 Exercise 15.3-6 Discussion Question in the group COMP372 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Danny Elliott published a blog post Unit 3 Exercise 15.3-6 Discussion Question in the group COMP372 Design and Analysis of AlgorithmsComments
Sandra Law added the event Community of Learning Design Meeting in the group Teaching and Learning at Athabasca
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Four Student Misconceptions about Learning - Faculty Focus
By Sandra Law in the group Teaching and Learning at Athabasca July 26, 2017 - 3:15pmPosted to group: Teaching and Learning at AthabascaList of most common student misconceptions about learning cited in Stephen Chew's chapter on helping students to maximize their study time. -
The Lives and Deaths of Buildings in History
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group June 8, 2017 - 11:21amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupIn Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings (Picador, 2017) James Crawford presents a history of architecture's impact on society and vice versa. Covering nearly 5000 years of human achievement and featuring 21... -
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... -
Workplace culture, slang, and motivation
Started by Tyler Lucas in the group COMP268 May 25, 2017 - 10:00am Replies (1) Last reply by Tyler Lucas May 25, 2017 - 2:12pmPosted to group: COMP268When I first started getting into fixing vehicles, being a general annoyance to my dad and his coworkers while he worked on semi trucks, there was no better motivation for an 11-year old to jump into a new field than getting to learn the slang and... -
Learnium
By Jon Dron 25 April 2017 @ 4:54pm Comments (5)www.learnium.com - Learnium is yet another attempt to overlay a cloud-based social medium on institutional learning, in the same family as systems like Edmodo, Wikispaces Classroom, Lore, GoingOn, etc, etc. I deliberately exclude from this list the far more excellent,... -
Congratulations, Dawn Wambold!
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group February 21, 2017 - 11:19amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupA big congratulations to AU Anthropology program student, Dawn Piche Wambold, who has been accepted into the MA program in Anthropology at the University of Alberta. Dawn will be working with Dr. Kisha Supernant as part of The Exploring Métis... -
Mexican Remittances Hit Record in 2016
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group February 2, 2017 - 2:39pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupStudents enrolled in Anth 394 (Urban Anthropology) take note of a recent article on remittances that Mexicans living abroad have sent home in 2016. http://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-globe-and-mail-ottawaquebec-edition/20170202/281943132613030 -
Recommended: Isolate Your USB Connections
Started by Tyler Lucas February 7, 2017 - 8:18pm Replies (9) Last reply by Tyler Lucas February 15, 2017 - 10:29amJust fried my laptop through the USB programming cable attached to the RedBoard/Arduino when something went wrong on the SparkFun Inventor's Kit breadboard. Could have saved my $2000+ computer with this $15 USB... -
Test Post
By Michael Mitter February 7, 2017 - 2:06pmJust testing out the AU blog posting system. Nothing to see here. -
TSUGI - Tsugi Framework for Building Learning Tools
By Jon Dron 31 January 2017 @ 11:46am Comments (1)https://www.tsugi.org/ - TSUGI is a very interesting approach to building a NGDLE (Next gen digital learning environment). It is another in a long line of fine projects by Chuck Severance, who is one of the leaders of Sakai (last gen digital learning environment), and who... -
Bridge champion who played her cards right (From The Argus)
By Jon Dron 11 January 2017 @ 3:27pm Comments (1)www.theargus.co.uk - Sad news for the world of bridge, about which I know almost nothing apart from what Sandra Landy, several-times world and European bridge champion, occasionally shared with me, and sad news for me. I learned today that she died last week, at the age... -
Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm.
By Jon Dron 9 January 2017 @ 2:26pmPosted to group: COMP 650: Social Computingwww.benkler.org - Yochai Benkler's seminal paper from 2002, introducing themes later explored in greater depth in the Wealth of Networks (very highly recommended, albeit very long indeed). In this shorter and earlier paper, he outlines his central notion of a third... -
Alfie Kohn: "It's bad news if students are motivated to get A's" - YouTube
By Jon Dron 6 January 2017 @ 12:53pm Comments (1)- A nice one-minute summary of Alfie Kohn's case against grades at www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQt-ZI58wpw There's a great deal more Kohn has to say on the subject that is worth reading, such as at http://www.alfiekohn.org/article/case-grades/... -
Interview with AU History/Anthropology student
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 6, 2017 - 2:52pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupThe Voice Magazine, an AUSU publication, recently conducted an interview with History and Anthropology major, Amanda Gillis. https://www.voicemagazine.org/search/searchdisplay.php?ART=11907 - By Mark A. McCutcheon December 20, 2016 - 10:22amMy new MA course in literary studies, Gothic Transformations, is now open to enrollments: http:/
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Meet Up: AU Anthropology Students in Calgary
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group December 15, 2016 - 10:40pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupIf you are an AU Anthropology student in the Calgary area (or surrounding areas), email Dr. Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown (meaghanp@athabascau.ca) and she will add you to our monthly meet up email list. On Wed. Nov. 16, we met up to attend a lecture of...
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IMPORTANT -- Library Webinar: Academic Integrity
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group December 9, 2016 - 11:48amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupAU Library & Scholarly Resources, in cooperation with AU’s Office of the Registrar, will be presenting next week a new webinar on Academic Integrity at AU. The Adobe Connect session will take place on Thursday, December 15, from 6 to 7 pm... -
First Nations Films at the 2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group November 9, 2016 - 9:49amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupOn the opening weekend of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival at the Banff Centre (Oct 29, 30, 2016) two films with a Canadian First Nations focus were shown.Koneline: our land beautiful (Canada, 2015, 96 min). Director: Nettie Wild.... -
Hackers vs Crackers
By Viorel Tabara 24 November 2016 @ 10:53pmPosted to group: Open Source Softwarestallman.org - There is a misconception about hackers. Richard Stallman is one of them. And so are all the people who wrote the computer programs that make up today's Open Source ecosystem. It's not easy to teach the world when mainstream media front pages use the...
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Movie in Calgary: Conlanging -- The Art of Crafting Tongues
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group July 18, 2017 - 10:53am Comments (1)Posted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupStudents interested in linguistics will find this fascinating---as will most fantasy/sci-fi fans. Plaza Theatre in Calgary will be screening the world premiere of the feature documentary Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues on Saturday... -
North America's prehistoric earthwork, Cahokia's Monk's Mound, Built in 20 Years?
By Vandy Bowyer in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group June 14, 2017 - 10:18amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupAn interesting overview of how the large prehistoric earthwork, Monk's Mound, was engineered and built. Researchers use techniques such as geoarchaeology and archaeobotany to better understand building construction. Some good aerial views... -
State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Spring 2017 Edition
By Jon Dron 16 May 2017 @ 11:44ammfeldstein.com - Hat-tip to Tim Terry (@tterry) for sharing this one from Phil Hill. tldr; - Blackboard and its acquisitions continue to shrink (great!), Canvas continues to grow (good), Moodle continues to thrive (very good), partly driven by Blackboard's hosted... -
Affects of Multi Threading
By Jesse Nesvold April 15, 2017 - 4:58pm Comments (2)Multiple Thread times compared for Assignment 1 -
Official Learning Diary #1 - Unit 1
By Michael Mitter April 2, 2017 - 6:08amHi there and welcome to the blog, I'd like to tell you all about Anthropodia through the next series of Units. My website will be built to showcase a new game for a large development team that I'm part of. The website serves to both attract new...
- 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 hunder 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
I'd say that the main reason why there is no guarantee that the sub-problems may give optimal solutions, because the commission rates are arbitrary values so as long as that is the case then the problem won't exhibit optimal substructure property.
Farzia Dilawar Khan August 7, 2017 - 12:41pm