doug — off the record

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October 2014

  • This Week in Ontario Edublogs

    It was another terrific week of reading and deeper thinking from the blogs of Ontario Educators. Here’s some of what I kept around to comment on for this post.   If We Only Knew Paul Cornies always challenges with the Quotes that he pulls from his Quoteflections blog.  In his post titled, “If We Only… Continue reading

  • OTR Links 10/31/2014

    Science Shows Something Surprising About People Who Love to Write – Mic Science Shows Something Surprising About People Who Love to Write by @RachelSGrate http://t.co/CJlLzqrfqZ via @MicNews tags: via:packrati.us Twuffer: Free Website to Schedule Future Tweets || Free Software Twuffer: Free Website to Schedule Future Tweets || Free Software – Mozilla Firefox http://t.co/KKa9DTENiA tags: via:packrati.us… Continue reading

  • Pre #BIT14 Interview with David Hann and Heather Durnin

    Michelle Cordy (@cordym) continues her series of interviews of notables presenting at the Bring IT, Together Conference next week, November 5-7, 2014 at the Scotiabank Convention Centre in Niagara Falls.  This time, it was an interview with Heather Durnin and David Hann. Now, I’ve known Heather Durnin (@hdurnin) for a number of years now.  She… Continue reading

  • OTR Links 10/30/2014

    BringIT,Together 2014 speakers | Lanyrd RT @BIT2014: check out the speaker directory for ECOO 2014 here at Lanyrd #bit14 http://t.co/DYDPTh3sG2 tags: bit14 via:packrati.us Educational Products | Copernicus MT @BIT2014: #bit14 welcomes the participation of Copernicus. Visit their booth Exhibit Hall. http://t.co/eZxf7zPjXd http://t.co/UxL4QicZub tags: bit14 via:packrati.us ecoo14-mindsonmedia – home RT @BIT2014: #bit14 Minds on Media Wiki… Continue reading

  • Should Have Done This Years Ago

    Years ago, maybe five?, I had a Lenovo laptop with a whopping 2 MB of memory.  At the time, I wanted to try out Ubuntu in a dual boot situation.  I already had purchased the Dell Netbook that came with Ubuntu and I really liked it.  So, off I went to the Ubuntu website and… Continue reading