My Week Ending 2019-09-15

Here’s a summary of some of the things I learned and published this week.

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Readings 

You can follow my daily readings as they happen here.  Below are a selected few, with commentary, from the past week.

• I never owned a Sony Walkman so the emotional tie isn’t there for me but just imagining it is fun.
• Up until this article, I just used Evernote through the web. I’m getting used to everything being online. When the connection goes down, so do I.
• I agree totally with this. There was a time when you could just drop in and play with this or that. Now, things have completely changed.
• Why don’t we have cool libraries around here? It would be interesting to see if the physical building does more to attract people than a square block. Calgary seems to be working out well.
• Teachers who actually taught online have come forth with their thoughts on eLearning; now the students weigh in. It isn’t positive.
• The bug in Chrome OS had a number of people worried about their devices. I wonder how many were like me and checked to see when their device actually will stop being supported.
• Vivaldi is now available for Android. Another browser for me to check out.
• Articles like this are quite disturbing. People don’t tend to be vocal about things until it hits home. I wonder if this is home enough to make it a bargaining issue of importance.
• I suspect many STEM teachers, whatever that is, would find this offensive but it’s a reminder that students are more than the flavour of the day.
• I don’t know how I feel about this. There are times that I’m glad it happens and times I’m not glad. Computer-wise, though, you have to be all-in in one setting.
• Vaping has been big in the news for some time now. This is a Q&A that I think that parents and students should study.
• I’ve seen plenty of things that I’m surprised that Twitter allows including messages from you know who. Would they ever suspend that account like they did this one?
• Of course, it would fail. Ask any pre-school teacher; young kids are a real puzzle at times.
• I think that this is a terrific idea. Even better wouldn’t it be cool to go back to previous Olympics and overlay performances from then?

Blog Posts on doug … off the record

My daily contributions to this blog.

• Sunday – My Week Ending September 8, 2019
• Monday –  The toys are back in town
• Tuesday – Ready to fold
• Wednesday – Hoarding pays off
• Thursday – Student vote 2019
• Friday – This Week in Ontario Edublogs
• Saturday – A Chromebook simulator
• Sunday –  Whatever happened to … TV dinner tables?

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#FollowFriday – September 12, 2019

https://wke.lt/w/s/bB8qO8

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voicEd Radio

My on demand radio page can be found here.  

This week’s show:

https://soundcloud.com/voiced-radio/this-week-in-ontario-edublogs-with-doug-peterson-september-11?in=voiced-radio/sets/this-week-in-ontario-edublogs-with-doug-peterson

Intro song:

Blog posts this week came from:

• @sheilaspeaking
• @mme_aston
• @jprofNB
• @ArcherJoe
• @DebbieDonsky

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Technology Troubleshooting

I’ve been using the “new Twitter” for a while and actually really liking it. The kinks in the pre-release seem to be resolved.

Except for one.

Sometimes when I click on a link that should takes me to a Twitter message or if I just type in a Twitter command (like twitter.com/dougpete), I get a message indicating a problem…

So, I do what any rational person would do. I try it again. Only this time, I press the ENTER key a little harder. And, I get the same result.

It’s frustrating because it’s intermittent. After a lot of noodle scratching, I’ve got a solution. Just position the cursor in advance of twitter.com and enter www. so it becomes http://www.twitter.com. It seems to me that that should be automatic and some times it is. Sometimes, it doesn’t work.

I trust they’re working on it and there will be a fix coming. Nobody likes an imperfect URL.

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Video of the Week

We’ve lost another great.

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Photo of the Week

I caught this guy having breakfast while I was out in the yard. Bugs Benedict?

Thanks for reading. Please join me daily for something new and, hopefully, interesting.

dp

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