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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.
Janelle Baker published a blog post CLC Poetry Contest (Prize: $500) in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group- Janelle Baker uploaded the file 2019 Poetry Contest - ENGL.pdf in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Jon Dron bookmarked A Universal Moral Code?
- Jon Dron uploaded the file 57 varieties
- Dr. Gina Wong published a blog post Call for a Maternal Mental Health Strategy in Canada 2018August 24, 2018 Ministry of HealthGovernment of SaskatchewanRoom 204, Legislative Building2405 Legislative DriveRegina, SK, Canada, S4S 0B3 Re: The development of a Canadian Maternal Mental Health Strategy...
- Daniel Wilton uploaded the file CIDER Session March 6 2019 upcoming in the group Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research - CIDER
- Daniel Wilton uploaded the file CIDER Session March 6 2019 banner in the group Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research - CIDER
- Gerald Ardito commented on the blog Power, responsibility, maps and plans: some lessons from being a Chair
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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... -
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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Student summer project funding
By Janelle Baker in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 29, 2019 - 1:46pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupSistering Indigenous and Western Science -
How architecture is beginning to mark a historic Indigenous presence
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 13, 2019 - 10:06amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupA recent article in the Globe and Mail discusses the work of Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe architect Ryan Gorrie, including projects on Humber College campuses. ... -
Unit 0 - Learning Diary and Assignment
By Sean Tolley in the group COMP 266 January 3, 2019 - 10:02pmPosted to group: COMP 266Hi fellow Comp 266 students, My name is Sean Tolley and I am looking forward to designing a website that I will be able to use for future business. I have no previous experience in programming or designing websites, and am looking forward to... -
Google kills off Hangouts and Allo in a cull to its messaging apps
By Jon Dron 8 December 2018 @ 6:12pmwww.alphr.com - Well, this is rotten. As the article suggests, the loss of Hangouts and Allo was pretty inevitable, given the large overlap in functionality between them and various Google apps (notably their Messages app), and that Google has a long history of... -
The Assignment Word Processing Template Quandary
By Steve Swettenham September 21, 2018 - 7:22amWord Processing Template -
Open Education Resources, Massive Open Online Courses, and Online Platforms for Distance and...
By Jon Dron 8 September 2018 @ 11:59am Comments (1)link.springer.com - Ironically published in a closed and massively over-priced Handbook of IT in Primary and Secondary Education, here's a chapter from me and Gerald Ardito on open and distance learning in the context of teaching children (paywall). I don’t know...
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- Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts
