Album:Inside Llewyn Davis (soundtrack to the film) Producers:Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, & T-Bone Burnett Songs won’t save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Pete Seeger By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway. Dave van Ronk The fact that the soundtrack for this film was made… Read more »
(AU Student Barbara Lehtiniemi went to Iqaluit and brought us back her observations. You can find the first part here.) Do you want fries with that? Our usual practice when travelling is to eat local. Yet our first few meals in Iqaluit were pizza, shwarma, or poutine. It took a bit of hunting to find… Read more »
By now, we’ve all seen that look of dread in someone’s eyes when they realize they’ve left their smart phone at home. It’s as though they’ve dropped the equivalent of Tolkien’s One Ring down a crevasse. they’re suddenly adrift, powerless without their Precious. Some researchers claim this anxiety is a sign of smart phone addiction,… Read more »
In late November I spent a week at our Canmore timeshare: a functional, yet cozy location for a working retreat. After a few hours or days of work I feel entitled to goof off. That diversion may entail shopping or eating out. As I visited new and old haunts in town I thought about my… Read more »
In the first two articles of this series (see Part I http://www.voicemagazine.org/articles/columndisplay.php?ART=9337 and Part II http://voicemagazine.org/articles/columndisplay.php?ART=9357), we examined the proper use of punctuation and quotation marks, including whether to place commas and quotes inside quotation marks and how to handle multiple sets of quotation marks. But although the steps and rules discussed cover most situations,… Read more »
Dear Members, You may have recently seen information on the internet speculating about the future of Athabasca University. These reports suggest that the Alberta government may broker a merger between AU and University of Alberta, and that this may result in drastic changes to the services and programs offered to students AU students. We want… Read more »
This week, we have a couple of clicks that encourage you to use your brain while being entertained. Fort McMoney An interactive documentary experience where your choices “affect what happens to you and the other players.” Part documentary, part game, part educational experience, and part social experiment, Fort McMoney can make you think in ways… Read more »
At Home: Lukaszuk out, Hancock back in. The Alberta Government changed its cabinet today, and of interest to those of us at AU is that the former minister of Advanced Education, Thomas Lukaszuk, has been moved to the new portfolio of “Jobs, Skills, Training, and Labour.” In his place, Global news reports that Dave Hancock… Read more »
The Alberta Union of Provincial Employes (AUPE) are the support staff at Athabasca University. They’re the people who process your applications, your loan papers, your library requests, who answer the phones at the information desk and try to get your question to the right person?who is usually another member of the AUPE. They’re also the… Read more »
With the arrival of online courses, from MOOCs to SPOCs to everything in between, the question becomes not if there’s a course for your particular interest, but rather where it is that you can find it. To help with that, the site Online College Courses has been created, providing a list of open college courses… Read more »