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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.
Jill Diachuk published a blog post The Transition- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Week 8 - IoT Hardware and Botnets
- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Week 9 - Database Research - DynamoDB
- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Week 9 - Databases Food for Thought
- Laurie Milne published a blog post New fossil ape discovered near Munich, Germany in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- Gerald Ardito commented on the blog E-Learn 2019 presentation - X-literacies: beyond digital literacy
- Jon Dron published a blog post E-Learn 2019 presentation - X-literacies: beyond digital literacyComments
- Jon Dron uploaded the file X-literacies
- John Borg published a blog post Unit 7: External Data Sources (APIs): Proposal in the group COMP 266
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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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Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology...
By Jon Dron 3 October 2019 @ 10:16am Comments (1)www.nature.com - I've been struggling a bit with writing a chapter on how we should research technologies, especially soft technologies, in the light of their innate complexity, the difficulties of identifying relevant boundaries, their situated nature, the... -
Unit 4 - Script use, augmentation and learning diary
By Jasmin Gallant in the group COMP 266 August 31, 2019 - 7:41pmPosted to group: COMP 266Explanation and critique:I found this unit was easier due to the fact that I had an introduction in c++ last session and an intro in java this cession and I am comfortable around programming language structures. I learned a little about the... -
Unit 4: Learning Diary & Submission
Posted to group: COMP 266The Work That Was Completed for This ChapterFor this chapter, I began as I typically do, by reviewing all of the online chapter material and suggested websites. From there, I dove deeper and completed my own research regarding the JavaScript... -
Unit 6: Using Libraries, Diary
By Michel Desmarais July 12, 2019 - 8:28pmInitially, learning jQuery was a little intimidating. Shortened expressions with additional brackets and syntax. However, after going through a few examples, I started to understand its simplicity and power in manipulating the... -
Internet Educational BBS Pioneers of Alberta - Part 2
By Steve Swettenham July 11, 2019 - 4:18amOur story has many undocumented aspects due to the rapid nature of computing and academic design and development activities focused on extremely short timelines to produce outcomes for stakeholders. Most of the software and hardware involved with... -
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Unit 1 - Intro to Robotics: What is a robot and what components make up a typical robot?
By Darren Hurren June 25, 2019 - 10:25amDefinition of a robot?: "A robot is an autonomous system which exists in the physical world, can sense its environment, and can act on it to achieve some goals." Matarić, M. J. (2007) The Robotics Primer. Cambridge, Massachussetts: The MIT...
- 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
Jon,
Thanks for sharing your slides.
I am really intrigued by your notion of assemblages of hard and soft technologies.
Gerald Ardito November 6, 2019 - 9:25am