doug — off the record

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September 2016

  • This Week in Ontario Edublogs

    It’s been a month already.  From the heat of the first week to the change in the colours of the leaves letting us know that winter is on the way, it’s been quite a month.  It’s been quite a month for Ontario Edubloggers as well. I got a message from Aviva Dunsiger this morning about… Continue reading

  • OTR Links 09/30/2016

    The Best of Ontario-Educators Daily The best of ontario-educators daily is out! https://t.co/RVcXp58oK5 Stories via @Staudt1 @gweiler @Teresa_Kelly #orangeshirtday #sncdsb — Doug Peterson (@dougpete) September 30, 2016 tags: IFTTT Twitter via:packrati.us orangeshirtday sncdsb CEMC | Summer Conference for Computer Studies Educators Resource Repository CEMC | Summer Conference for Computer Studies Educators Resource Repository https://t.co/5AGjxZufuU —… Continue reading

  • DIgging through the map archives

    As Aviva Dunsiger notes, I’ve been doing a map thing this week. I think you have a mapping theme this week. Is it going to continue? Good for me to work through what scares me … aka, maps. 🙂 https://t.co/mj5uQ5QjtO — Aviva Dunsiger (@avivaloca) September 28, 2016 It’s the advantage of doing your own blog.… Continue reading

  • OTR Links 09/29/2016

    The Best of Ontario-Educators Daily The best of ontario-educators daily is out! https://t.co/N7uHkICXYK Stories via @mathtech @oksarge @masonsherry #edtech #edchat — Doug Peterson (@dougpete) September 29, 2016 tags: IFTTT Twitter via:packrati.us edchat edtech The Neglected Books Page – www.NeglectedBooks.com: Where forgotten books are remembered The Neglected Books Page – https://t.co/ObujRz55bD: Where forgotten books are remembered… Continue reading

  • Another unique option

    The past couple of days has seen me taking a look at a couple of mapping options.  To the list, I’d like to add a third – OpenStreetMap. It’s considerably different from the other two which are managed by Google and Bing.  OpenStreetMap is created and built by the local community.   Consequently, the community… Continue reading