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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.
- John Borg uploaded the file Unit 7 - Submission.zip
- Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page OS - Food for Thought
- Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown published a blog post Empowerment of Women and Girls--2019 CBC Massey Lectures in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group
- 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
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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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The Transition
By Jill Diachuk November 9, 2019 - 2:33pmWriting a critical review was a good way to start writing academically again in a shorter form. It has been around 4 years and change since I have had to writing a legitimate paper . By receiving feedback from the instructor, it gave me a number of... -
Lets Focus!
By Jill Diachuk October 29, 2019 - 7:35pmQuite frankly I just need to throw my cellphone out the window and put on a focus playlist from Spotify. The internet isn’t as much of a distraction as my cellphone with Instagram, work emails, texts and Facebook there are way too many worm... -
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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Lidar use in archaeology
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group October 22, 2019 - 10:01amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupAre you interested in learning more about Lidar use in archaeology? Register for this webinar "Flights Into the Past - Archaeological Prospection Using Lidar," hosted by Lidar Magazine, which takes place TOMORROW (Oct 23, 11-12pm MST).... -
SCIE 326 - Summary
By Xing Li September 29, 2019 - 7:48pmSum of Time Column Labels Row Labels Activity Specific May Jun Jul Aug Grand... -
Unit 6 Using Libraries "jQuery"
By Jasmin Gallant in the group COMP 266 September 3, 2019 - 10:56amPosted to group: COMP 266Before starting unit 6 I went back to do some JavaScript syntax reading and some more tutorials on w3schools website.In unit 6 I learn about jQuery libraries, which is a breath of fresh air when you want to animate your webpages. You can create... -
Unit 5 - Writing Javascript
By Jasmin Gallant in the group COMP 266 August 31, 2019 - 7:58pmPosted to group: COMP 266Hi, Ok so for my ideas I really have 2 ideas, but I am more falling towards the latter as I dont have any way of sending information from my contact form. Idea 1: Create a rolling image slideshow in the home page with different... -
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... -
SIK Guide v4.0a - Project 4C: DIY "Who am I?" Game
By Darren Hurren July 7, 2019 - 1:23pmThis seemed like it would be a pretty fun game but I don't see myself ever using this circuit again unless I made some modifications. You would definitely have to make it more challenging by using something other then animals for guessing.This was... -
National Obligations and UNESCO World Heritage Sites
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group July 5, 2019 - 9:06amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupWhile having a site named to the World Heritage List is an honor for any country this designation also comes with obligations. The impact of oil sands projects in northern Alberta, as well as the effects of BC Hydro's Site C development...
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