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By Kyla James May 21, 2023 - 11:39am Comments (1)I have recently enrolled in the Master of Nursing graduate program at Athabasca University, and this is the first time learning and completing coursework exclusively online. One of the reasons for enrolling at AU was because of this, and like...3 Tips for staying on track with 2 courses
By Adele Tremblay May 16, 2023 - 1:09pm Comments (1)In the past 3 weeks, I have found myself balancing two graduate courses at the same time. It's the first semester that I challenge myself to take 2 courses and so far, I have not fallen behind with any of the work. It's important to note that I'm...Psychology Tools Saves The Day!
By Tina Baker April 17, 2023 - 1:29pmThe resource is so useful for all psychological therapies. It has an abundance of worksheets, handouts, pictorial diagrams to enhance understanding of the different therapies, as well as audio resources. The Psychology Tools site has different...Can a technology be true?
By Jon Dron March 16, 2023 - 1:27pmDave Cormier is a wonderfully sideways-thinking writer, such as in this recent discussion of the myth of learning styles. Dave's post is not mainly about learning style theories, as such, but the nature and value of myth. As he puts it, myth is "a...Athabasca University's major unions condemn the sacking of Peter Scott. Meanwhile....
By Jon Dron February 10, 2023 - 3:03pmThe undergraduate students union, Canadian Union of Public Employees, and Athabasca University professional and faculty union have now all come out with strongly worded statements protesting the recent firing of Peter Scott and the process used to...Athabasca University bids a deeply reluctant farewell to Peter Scott in the vilest attack yet by...
By Jon Dron February 2, 2023 - 5:02pmYou may have heard that the president of Athabasca University, Peter Scott, was replaced yesterday with Alex Clark, erstwhile Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at AU. This was a complete surprise - no, utter shock - to everyone at AU, from...DECOLONIZE OR INDIGENIZE?
By Bevan Janzen January 30, 2023 - 7:48pm“Oh yes, I went to the white man’s school. I learned to read from school books, newspapers and the Bible. But in time, I found these were not enough…the Great Spirit has provided you and me with an opportunity for study in nature’s university,...Two stories about learning to be human from a machine
By Jon Dron January 12, 2023 - 5:22pmI asked ChatGPT to write me a story about a robot teaching children to be human. This is what it came up with...Once upon a time, in a far-off land, there lived a robot named Zephyr. Zephyr was unlike any other robot, as it had been programmed...AWS Educate - things have changed a bit since I last visited
By Gerald Abshez December 29, 2022 - 10:56pmWell, AWS Educate has been updated, and it's very different. So, let's do some diving in.First, the bad: The mostly broken access to the console is now gone. So, you can't try things like you could before, directly in the console; and you can't...
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Hello Adele,
Thank you so much for this excellent post. These are wonderful tips that will prove very beneficial to anyone who reads and adopts them. I'll be adopting some of them myself as I have definitely felt as though I am facing a mountain this past year when trying to juggle study and work!
Your post has also reminded me that I promised to create a cheat sheet for students regarding deadlines for the course. I'll do that later today!
With all best wishes,
Emily
Emily Cargan May 28, 2023 - 8:31am
It took me a while to figure out about this exercise too. Make sure your robot is connected to the system. You need to open serial port by clicking on tools from the top-bar. Then write the command like
f 50
then press Ctrl+Enter to execute.I hope this helps.
Mansimar Bhasin November 7, 2022 - 4:37pm
I had an issue where I did not read the instructions properly for this excersise where you need to open the Serial monitor (Tools, Serial Monitor) Ctrl_Shift+ M and you need to enter the speed value for the motors. That along with the switch on will move the motors. Just double check that. I wasted a couple of hours on that silly mistake and even bought new motor boards thinking it was faulty. Hope that solves your issues.
Paul Bastos October 30, 2022 - 6:24am
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Hi Kyla,
Thank you for this excellent blog post! It can definitely feel intimidating to post on online discussion forums but no one on this course is judging other people's post; instead, I think everyone is grateful to have others to talk to about their own anxieties about taking further education and juggling this with all of their other responsibilities.
As shown by this post, you have important things to say and a lovely way of expressing yourself, so just post when you can and know you will have delighted and engaged readers!
It can take a while to get oriented to online learning platforms. I still struggle finding my way around the AU MAIS 606 site! Just know you're not alone in this. Check under Communications > News and Announcements every week for my notifications as I try to provide a summary of each week's work there.
All the very best for now!
Emily
Emily Cargan May 28, 2023 - 9:01am