Doug Peterson is the Computers in Education Program Consultant for The Greater Essex County District School Board in Southwestern Ontario. An educator since 1979, Doug has taught Data Processing, Computer Science, Accounting, General Business Studies, and Mathematics at the secondary school level and was the Director of Business Education at Sandwich Secondary School in Lasalle, Ontario.
Doug’s formal education includes a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Toronto. Ontario Ministry of Education and Training qualifications are in Data Processing, Computer Science, Accounting, and Mathematics.
If for some reason, you want to know more, go to http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/about.htm
I enjoy writing and commenting. I do a monthly newsletter and maintain a del.icio.us site all the time. This blog gives me the opportunity to comment as the mood hits.
The content of this blog is generated by whatever strikes my fancy at any given point. It might be computers, weather, political, or something else in nature. I experiment and comment a lot on things so don’t take anything here too seriously; I might change my mind a day later but what you read is my thought and opinion at the time I wrote it!
This blog is scraped over to http://commun-it.org as well. It adds my ramblings to the mix with other Ontario bloggers.
doug … off the record is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.
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July 15, 2009 at 10:30 pm
I did my student teaching a number of years ago at General Amherst SS. I still remember what a great community it was!
August 21, 2009 at 12:37 am
I was happy to discover your blog today. I was unable to find a contact link. I hope it’s OK that I’m contacting you through a public comment. I’ve developed an educational program for Windows called SpellQuizzer that helps students learn their spelling and vocabulary words. You set up the students’ spelling lists in the software and then students practice their words with SpellQuizzer. It really greatly helped my own children with their weekly spelling lists.
I would appreciate your reviewing SpellQuizzer in Doug – Off the Record. You can learn more about the program at http://www.SpellQuizzer.com. There’s a video demo you can watch at http://www.spellquizzer.com/SpellQuizzer-Demo.htm and a community site where SpellQuizzer users can share their spelling lists with one another (http://www.SpellQuizzer.com/Community). I’d be happy to send you a complimentary license for the software. Please let me know if you are interested.
I’m currently offering SpellQuizzer free to any educator who contacts me at http://www.SpellQuizzer.com/Contact.htm. An email address associated with an educational institution must be provided to qualify. Please feel free to include this offer if you choose to post about SpellQuizzer.
Thank you very much!
Dan Hite
TedCo Software
http://www.TedCoSoftware.com
http://www.SpellQuizzer.com
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September 28, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Hi Doug,
I like your blog, I was looking for your contact information to see if you are interested in some of our content for your blog. I could supply you with the embed codes for a few of the video tutorials we make. Just have a look at http://www.helpvids.com and tell me if you are interested.
Kind Regards
Oliver Crawford,
http://www.helpvids.com
http://www.webzo.com
http://i-phone-tutorials.com
December 15, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Hi Doug.
So I was once at teacher for GECDSB – for a short time. Grew up in the area too. During the one year I taught at PEPS I took many PD courses from you. That was almost ten years ago now and I can still find my Canada-Japan webquest online. Talk about cutting edge stuff ten years ago! I very much enjoyed the PD back then so thanks for the learning. As it turns out, in this small world, I found your blog on the blog of one of my classmates in the MA program at the University of Calgary: thinking in mind by Neil Stephenson. So, here I am, educating in Calgary, working on an MA and finding people from the past who helped me with my educating!
Cheers Doug!
Chris