Here’s a summary of some of the things I learned and published this week.
Readings
You can follow my daily readings as they happen here. Below are a selected few, with commentary, from the past week.
Sunday
- George Bush could do it but Donald Trump can’t bring himself to do it yet. Maybe never.
- Canada can be a weird place at times. Here are some examples.
Monday
- If you feel like you need an extension to capture part of your screen in Google Chrome, here are some suggestions.
- I’ve always had a dog from the Humane Society and they’re awesome. Good choice, Biden family
Tuesday
- Every year at this time, I’m reminded of the Edmund Fitzgerald and look for research about it.
- Hamilton-Wentworth gets ready for another closure of school buildings
Wednesday
- If you’re interested in the latest of STEM toys for kids, check these out
- The fact that so much interest and money is spent on stopping students from cheating should make all educators rethink the value of exams
Thursday
- Detroit public schools decide that they’re not going to keep their buildings open and move to online
- I was victim of the great YouTube outage this past week. It’s really strange when something that you rely on goes bad
Friday
- I am intrigued with anything that features a dark mode. Next up, Elementary OS
- In the TDSB, if you ran into problems as a young person, it may not get stricken from your record
Saturday
- If you’re curious about Diwali, here’s some information. I like that this has really made news on this day
- It may not be all that noticeable, but the UI for Chrome OS is a dog’s breakfast – can’t believe I just quoted my elementary school principal
Blog Posts on
doug … off the record
My daily contributions to this blog are linked below. If you’re looking for a week in review for doug–off the record, you came to the right place.
- Sunday – My Week Ending September 8, 2020
- Weekly summary of things around here
- Monday – What now?
- My recommendation for getting Canada and the United States back together
- Tuesday – Education for $1000
- Sadly, we lost Alec Trebek this week
- Wednesday – Remembrance Day
- A powerful “post from the past”
- Thursday – Extension tutorial
- A tutorial to help you build your own COVID research extension
- Friday – This Week in Ontario Edublogs
- My weekly look at seven blog posts from around the province
- Saturday – A visit to the tip
- Pictures from Point Pelee National Park
- Sunday – Whatever happened to … ?
- A weekly fun post to try to get you to reflect on things and share your thoughts
#FollowFriday – November 13, 2020

voicEd Radio

On this week’s show, Stephen Hurley and I chatted about treaty awareness, photography and storytelling, October, online tools, and an update from Peter.
The show is available here: Treaty Awareness, New Ways of Seeing, Celebrating and Being Together in Learning | voicEd
Tamara Bolotenko – @TamaraBolotenko
Jessica Outram – @jessicaoutram
Will Gourley – @WillGourley
EduGals – @EduGals
Peter Cameron – @cherandpete
Intro Song:
All of the podcasts are archived here. The show is broadcast LIVE almost every Wednesday morning at 9:15 on voicEd Radio.
Technology Troubleshooting
Sometimes, it just takes an update!
Regular readers who know that I had had issues with Microsoft Edge and WordPress a while back. To that end, I just took it out of my regular rotation.
This morning, I was eligible for yet another update to Windows so I took the leap. A reboot later and I guess there was an update to Edge. I’m taking a challenge, writing this post with it and so far so good.
Video of the Week
The COVID rules in Ontario change again.
People, let’s stop the nonsense and do the distancing, hand washing, and mask wearing.
Photo of the Week
If you read yesterday’s point, you’ll know where I went on Tuesday and took this picture that I’m so proud of. And, you get to see it every visit.

Thanks for reading.
Please join me daily for something new and, hopefully, interesting for you. I honestly and truthfully appreciate your few moments reading my thoughts. Time willing, this summary appears every Sunday afternoon.
Be safe.
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