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Seven Warning Signs of Pseudoarchaeology
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group March 20, 2020 - 11:23am Comments (2)Posted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupAll archaeology students--and members of the general public--should be aware of pseudoarchaeology and how to spot it. Check out this great summary of the 7 warning signs of pseudoarchaeology (I've probably posted it before, but it is totally worth... -
The makers of the game complaining about the people playing it
By Jon Dron 5 March 2020 @ 12:20pmwww.cbc.ca - ""I think as long as we have education, we're going to have people who are going to try and game the system and we just have to keep up with them," said Deb Eerkes, the university's director of student conduct and accountability. " (40 University... -
EDDE802 Group Wiki
Last updated January 4, 2016 - 2:46pm by Rita Zuba Prokopetz in the group EDDE802: Advanced Research Methods in Education Comments (1)Posted to group: EDDE802: Advanced Research Methods in EducationBrainstorming... research interest, research question, conceptual framework, research paradigms, -
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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Why Pioneer Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield Said the Mind Is More Than the Brain
By Jon Dron 9 March 2020 @ 1:15pmmindmatters.ai - I had not come across exactly this argument for mind-brain dualism before, though it resembles some going back to antiquity in its basic assumptions. It's an interesting idea, proposed by Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon working in the first half of... -
Unit 4
By Imad Boutros in the group COMP 266 March 9, 2020 - 8:59amPosted to group: COMP 266Attached is my Unit 4 progress and the learning diary -
Why Are There So Many Writing Style Guides?
By Lauren Dodd March 4, 2020 - 9:43amIn my writing experience, I have had the opportunity to utilize MLA and APA style guides when completing written assignments. I have always been most comfortable with MLA as I used it in highschool for writing assignments and then as well in my... -
The Significance Behind Bell Lets Talk
By Jordynn Mar 31 January 2020 @ 8:55pm Comments (1)nationalpost.com - I have always been interested in the significance of the Bell Lets Talk movement and whether it is benificial or not. In honour of yesterday being Bell Lets Talk day I decided to do some searching into any negative aspects that this day carries. I... -
MAIS 606 Week 1(2)
By Jinyoung Moon January 11, 2020 - 1:43amI finished reading the journal article for the critical review and did a little bit of research. In the early 1970s, the American government started the open admissions policies in colleges - non-discriminatory admission policies to reach out to... -
Unit 1 Learning Diary
By Tamer Shihab October 29, 2019 - 10:43amUnit 1 Learning diary: In this first unit, we had to make a rough design of my website. In this design, I didn’t focus much on the looks or content of my website, but on the functionality. In this unit, we developed an initial idea for what... -
Unfortunately, Google is Not Enough in Research
By Charleen Stokes October 26, 2019 - 8:18pmIt is important to consider the differences in the material available between a library database and a Google search...
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Citation Courtesy
By Charleen Stokes October 26, 2019 - 8:12pmConsider it a sort of academic courtesy.
- 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
