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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.
Richard Al commented on a wiki page titled Hardware Project with a Friend - Micro-controller for Solar Powered Chicken Coop- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post Resilience and the Collapse of Civilizations in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Week 10 - Case Study on Windows Server
- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Hardware Project with a Friend - Micro-controller for Solar Powered Chicken CoopComments
- Philip Kirkbride uploaded the file Power Switch for Transformer and External Charging Plugs
- Philip Kirkbride uploaded the file Box Containing Micro-controller, Battery, and Components
- Philip Kirkbride uploaded the file Microcontroller for Solar Power System
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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:/
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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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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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An interesting Patent
By Steve Swettenham October 20, 2019 - 11:07amDistributed electronic publishing system -
Internet Educational BBS Pioneers of Alberta - Part 3
By Steve Swettenham October 11, 2019 - 3:02amInternet Educational BBS Pioneers of Alberta - Part 3 -
Task 13
By Jill Diachuk September 16, 2019 - 7:24pmThe best way for me to understand the options given in Task 13 is to first start by defining what academic writing is to give a clearer picture of what it is made of. The University of Sydney defines academic writing as “Itis... -
COMP444 Final Project Ideas
By Darren Hurren August 9, 2019 - 11:45amI was reading through the prof's Project Ideas blog and it sounds like they would be ok with me creating something using just the materials provided in the SIK, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a robot by definition!... -
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... -
Scotland Coastal Heritage at Risk Project (SCHARP): Responding to Archaeological Sites Threatened...
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group July 30, 2019 - 9:37amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupRising sea levels due to climate change are having substantial impacts on Neolithic, Norse, and Medieval archaeological sites in Orkney, an island chain north of Scotland. The Scotland Coastal Heritage at Risk Project (SCHARP) which is... -
Unit 1 - Chapter 3: Food for Thought
By Darren Hurren June 25, 2019 - 10:53amMatarić, M. J. (2007) The Robotics Primer - Chapter 3
- 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
Hi Philip,
This is really interesting, thanks for sharing! As you have highlighted here it is amazing how much tech there is in farming today.
Keep up the good work!
Richard
Richard Al 14 hours ago