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
- I checked and, to date, Google isn’t tracking me with the new FLoCed. At least not yet.
- OK, dumbest thing I’ve heard for a long time. I shudder whenever an episode of Rescue 401 is in Toronto
Monday
- People should try on these 404 messages for style to see if they fit
- If the thought of the new Google FLoC tracking has you worried, maybe it’s the time to finally switch to DuckDuckGo
Tuesday
- This actually would be a better problem for Google to solve right now
- I think that this concept is rather cool – get out of the classroom and go to the beach
Wednesday
- Well, I did actually know a couple of these things but it’s still nice to read an article like this and indeed find something new
- Every now and again, you read an article like this and it just confirms that the kids are all right
Thursday
- Like many, I watched the Premier’s latest press conference and all all kinds of things running around my mind. Not all of them were good
- If you’re looking for something new and inspirational to do with your Raspberry Pi, you might look at some of these ideas
Friday
- This looks really interesting and shows that the Ontario Art Education Association are staying relevant to its members
- How has your community changed over the past 37 years?
Saturday
- Ideas if you updated to the latest Windows and got the blue screen of death and would like to get back into your computer
- This is an important read about how Canada ended up in the third wave
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 April 11, 2021
- Weekly summary of things around here
- Monday – Buying something new
- If you ended up with a few extra education bucks, what would you buy?
- Tuesday – Pivoting (yet again)
- Why not wait until the April Break to make this announcement?
- Wednesday – Knitting needles in the curriculum
- All about Floom
- Thursday – Back to earth
- Ditch over the air solutions to fibre just because we can
- Friday – This Week in Ontario Edublogs
- My weekly look at seven blog posts from around the province
- Saturday – Names
- I messed up some names on Friday
- Sunday – Whatever happened to … ?
- A weekly fun post to try to get you to reflect on things and share your thoughts
#FollowFriday – April 16, 2021
voicEd Radio

On this week’s show, Stephen Hurley and I chatted about Bitmojis, Online Learning, Looking Back and Looking Ahead.
The show, stored as a podcast is available here:
https://voiced.ca/podcast_episode_post/bitmojis-online-learning-looking-back-and-looking-ahead/
- EduGals – @edugals
- Charles Pascal – @CEPascal
- Tim King – @tk1ng
- Matthew Morris – @callmemrmorris
- John Hodgkinson – @Mr_H_Teacher
Opening Song:
Closing Song:
All of the podcasts are archived here. The show is broadcast LIVE almost every Wednesday morning at 8:45 on voicEd Radio.
Technology Troubleshooting
An update on my wife’s newly acquired Chromebook. She now regrets putting me off ordering it for her this long. She’s loving in.
She opened her MacBook Pro that had been fully charged to see that it was down to 27%.
Yep, sometimes the best thing to do is just upgrade.
Video of the Week
You know, I get it. If everyone would then maybe we could take the steps necessary to get our lives back together.
Photo of the Week
When a tulip listens to Doug Ford.

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.
dp
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