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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.
- Craig Belair published a blog post COMP372 Abuses of asymptotic notation in the group COMP372 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Craig Belair published a blog post COMP372 PROBLEM 1-1 in the group COMP372 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Steve Swettenham created a new photo album ODD
- Steve Swettenham added the photo The Medium is the Message - Athabasca University Letter sent to online learner to the album ODD
- Jinyoung Moon published a blog post MAIS 606 Week 1(2)
- Daniel Wilton uploaded the file CIDER Session 22 Jan 2020 card in the group Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research - CIDER
- Daniel Wilton uploaded the file CIDER Session 22 Jan 2020 thumb in the group Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research - CIDER
- Daniel Wilton uploaded the file CIDER Session 22 Jan 2020 banner in the group Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research - CIDER
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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:/
/ chrome.google.com/ webstore/ detail/ ninikahfdpgbnjmgjcddiibmnemgmihk -
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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COMP372 Abuses of asymptotic notation
By Craig Belair in the group COMP372 Design and Analysis of Algorithms January 12, 2020 - 11:22pmPosted to group: COMP372 Design and Analysis of AlgorithmsOne of the most common abuses of asymptotic notation is the use of the "=" sign when representing set membership. For example, we might write f(x)=12x3+5x2+x+3 = Θ(x3). Clearly it would be more proper to write f(x)∈Θ(x3).... -
Unit 3: CSS - Something to Note
Posted to group: COMP 266While testing my website in various browsers to ensure compatibility, I found some issues to note when loading in Internet Explorer. The most important thing to take note of is the fact that IE does not recognize opacity control in CSS. I found this... -
Citation Courtesy
By Charleen Stokes October 26, 2019 - 8:12pmConsider it a sort of academic courtesy.
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Unit 5 - Writing JavaScript - DESIGN
Posted to group: COMP 266Attached is a design run through for the implementations that I plan to implement in my website. I look forward to begin coding this and learning more about JavaScript in the process. I believe these improvements will benefit my website a great... -
From Creative Writing to Academic Writing
By Charleen Stokes September 7, 2019 - 12:42pm"Creative writing and academic writing have their own place and uses..."
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Why Do Some Humans Have Neanderthal DNA?
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group September 5, 2019 - 11:08amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupCheck out this great article--written for kids and reviewed by kids--about Neanderthal DNA in humans https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00104?sfns=mo 
UNIT 2 LEARNING DIARY.pdf
Posted to group: COMP 266
- 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
