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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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Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read?
By Jon Dron 18 March 2012 @ 1:56pm Comments (6)healthland.time.com - The answer to this question seems to be a guarded 'yes'. The issue seems to be that we remember things in books not just because of content but because of context - where it was on the page, where it was in the book. In fact, i can sometimes recall... -
A Universe Explodes: A Blockchain Book, from Editions At Play
By Jon Dron 1 December 2017 @ 7:42pm Comments (2)medium.com - A really nice project from the Editions at Play team at Google, in which blockchain is used both to limit supply to a digital book (only 100 copies made) and, as the book is passed on, to make it 'age,' in the sense that each reader must remove two... -
Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Wine Making
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group November 18, 2017 - 10:56amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupStudents enrolled in Anthropology 272: Introduction to Archaeology may find a recent report in the Globe and Mail has relevance to the discussion of residue analysis in Chapter 7 of the Renfrew and Bahn text, Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and... -
Firefox Quantum
By Jon Dron 14 November 2017 @ 11:09am Comments (1)Posted to group: COMP 266www.mozilla.org - The new version of Firefox is very sleek and very fast, while retaining backwards compatibility with older plugins. An easy upgrade for users of the previous version, a quick install for everyone else. An absolute must-have for any web developer.... -
mLearning and the Mona Lisa
By Rob Power November 5, 2014 - 2:28amLeave it to John Traxler to get me thinking! In his keynote address at mLearn 2014, Traxler used the Mona Lisa as an analogy for the disconnect between mLearning research and practice, and policy makers' expectations. He described policy makers'... -
Mobilizing the MOOC: A Review of Instructional Design for Mobile Learning (IDML13)
By Rob Power June 19, 2013 - 7:01amJenny Poole via FlickrMy latest... a review on MOOC News & Reviews about the Instructional Design for Mobile Learning (IDML13) micro-MOOC hosted by Academic... -
Link to Tony Bates' latest book (online open access textbook) Teaching in a Digital Age
Started by Madelaine Befus in the group EDDE 806 Doctoral Research Seminar January 18, 2015 - 5:45pmPosted to group: EDDE 806 Doctoral Research SeminarFYI - Tony Bates' latest textbook published using an open-access, Creative Commons license, is available here: http://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/ Tony is the 806 guest speaker for Feb. 19.
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Fall 2018 MA course on vampires and zombies in literature: The Walking Undead
By Mark A. McCutcheon June 18, 2018 - 11:53amIn the upcoming Fall 2018 semester, AU's MA program will offer a seminar on vampires and zombies in literary history. The course will be team-taught by me and my colleague Dr Dana Gliserman-Kopans at Empire State College (ESC). The course is open... -
The ultimate insomnia cure: new GDPR legislation soothingly read by Peter Jefferson
By Jon Dron 29 May 2018 @ 5:22pmblog.calm.com - The BBC's Shipping Forecast is one of the great binding traditions of British culture that has been many a Brit's lullaby since time immemorial (ie. long before I was born). Though I never once paid attention to its content in all the decades I... -
SCRAP on Facebook and Instagram
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group April 16, 2018 - 4:43pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupDr. Peuramaki-Brown's archaeology project in Belize, The Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project (SCRAP), is now on Facebook and Instagram. Like/Follow us to get up-to-date reports from our field season in Belize starting this May, as well as other...
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James Mellaart and Çatalhöyük: A New Controversy
Posted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupAnthropology 272 and 277 students check out this article on James Mellaart and his work at Çatalhöyük. https://www.livescience.com/61989-famed-archaeologist-created-fakes.html -
Schizophrenia patients calmed by video game - BBC News
By Jon Dron 15 February 2018 @ 10:17amwww.bbc.com - A small pilot study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn, but this is an interesting and novel use of video games to help schizophrenic patients to control their hallucinations without drugs. The technique actually has almost nothing to do with the... -
New Maya Site Located Using LIDAR
Posted to group: AU Anthropology Interest Grouphttps://globalnews.ca/news/4004534/massive-mayan-community-located-guatemala-jungle/ -
After the Flood: Archaeology in Alberta and the Occasional Paper Series
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 31, 2018 - 3:33pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupImportant new publication about the archaeology done in the wake of the 2013 flood https://albertashistoricplaces.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/after-the-flood-archaeology-in-alberta-and-the-occasional-paper-series/ -
Ursula K. Le Guin -- Sci-Fi writer and daughter of anthropologist
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 28, 2018 - 9:27amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupThis week we learned of the passing of American Sci-Fi writer, Ursula K. Le Guin, "one of the literary greats of the 20th century" and "the voice of reason, feminism, and compassion." Many may not know that she was also the daughter of the famous... -
What Really Happened on Easter Island?
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 25, 2018 - 12:48pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupANTH 277 and 320 students: Take a peek at this important blog post about the archaeology of Easter Island--as you know, the Jared Diamond ecocide argument is not all it's cracked up to...
- 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
Thanks Jon. Ya the Landing is good. I think it has improved since last time I tried to use it. Or maybe I'm just better with the technologies now.
It would be nice to see some personal analytics like we can get on academia.edu, to see who is viewing, whether local or external. This helps to track student usage of papers.
I'm not going to be using office 365 for anything anymore. It is just to cludgy. I'm even tempted to drop microsoft office, but I'm not sure the state of OS alternatives.
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