Alison Atkin, graduate student of archaeology at the University of Sheffield, made a brilliant poster on the modeling of plagued versus non-plagued cemetery collections. The poster debuted at the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) conference, where it won the Bill White prize (Atkin, 2014)! It will also be… Read more“A Poster Child for Academic Posters”
How to Write a Student Research Paper, Part 2: The World’s Wildest Introductions and Conclusions
In the previous part of this two-part series, I went over the basics of introduction and conclusion writing for research papers. In this part I will use an unusual example of this structure in the wild:Â The World’s Wildest Police Videos. Hosted by John Bunnell from 1998 to 2012, the TV… Read more“How to Write a Student Research Paper, Part 2: The World’s Wildest Introductions and Conclusions”
How to Begin and End a Student Research Paper, Part 1
Since I have been teaching cultural anthropology online, I have graded a lot of papers at all levels of quality. For papers that land in the B to C area, I have noticed some common pitfalls that can be fixed if the student knew more about the research paper format…. Read more“How to Begin and End a Student Research Paper, Part 1”
Online Videos of Anthropomotron!
Believe it or not, I had not thought of googling my app to see what the word on the street is until very recently. To my surprise, Anthropomotron has a few mentions out on the Internet that I had not known about. There are various sites that catalog apps on the… Read more“Online Videos of Anthropomotron!”
Only 2% of You Will Share These Four Paragraphs
Back when I was an MA student, all the way in the early 2000s, I spent a lot of time at Ellis Library photocopying articles. As I pursued my graduate degrees, technology advanced and journal articles online became more prevalent. A divide grew between the typically newer articles online and… Read more“Only 2% of You Will Share These Four Paragraphs”
Thoughts from a Year of Online Teaching
In early 2013, I applied for an online faculty position at Ashford University. When the hiring process really gained steam, I was in Hawaii for the SAA conference. As a testament to the versatility of the online medium, I was virtually attending training sessions in Oahu and filling out PDF… Read more“Thoughts from a Year of Online Teaching”
I Dragged a PDF into Sente. You Won’t Believe What Happens Next
While Endnote is the most commonly-used bibliographic software, I use Sente, a Mac program by Third Street Software that really got my attention back in my M.A. days. I am not an expert in comparing the latest versions of Sente versus Endnote, but from my use of Sente at home… Read more“I Dragged a PDF into Sente. You Won’t Believe What Happens Next”
I Investigated the Mac Dictionary. What I Found Blew My Mind
As I was writing the previous post about multiple language spellchecking in Mac OS X, I wondered what if there was a similar option for the built-in dictionary. In case you didn’t know, you can right-click a selectable word, choose the first menu item (“Look Up”) and it will show… Read more“I Investigated the Mac Dictionary. What I Found Blew My Mind”
I Poked Around My Mac’s Keyboard Settings. What I Found Changed Everything I Knew About Life
I hate the hyperbolic link bait titles that are all the rage. Don’t you? Anyway, I am starting a new series on neat tech tips that are useful for research. This one is already preinstalled on Macs. In my desired line of work, I have to write in both Spanish… Read more“I Poked Around My Mac’s Keyboard Settings. What I Found Changed Everything I Knew About Life”
Short Term Fluctuations in Style
When I released the first version of mobile Anthropomotron, I had to design an icon for it. The process was described in these posts. Little did I know, that a major change in design aesthetics would occur, which would demand a change in both the design of the icon, and… Read more“Short Term Fluctuations in Style”