My Week Ending 2021-08-22

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. They’re posted to the blog under the title OTR Links.

Sunday

• If you’re doing some research about what computer to buy for students as they return to school, this article might help
• We’ve been working on getting assessment right for years, decades, centuries – maybe it’s time to avoid exams

Monday

• Our local hospital is going to start publically tracking the vaccination status of patients
• Eight ways to check out that website that you used to use a long time ago – it was fun tracking down old newspapers

Tuesday

• These invoices from the Ontario Conservatives originally looked like just another false bit of social media until we found out they weren’t
• This quite a good collection of information for parents whose child may be the youngest in any classroom

Wednesday

• It was bound to happen – the news media only has a certain amount of time and reporters so some things get ignored
• Toronto bans indoor singing or assembles this upcoming school years

Thursday

• The term “stalkerware” is becoming more familiar – here’s how to find and remove it from your devices
• The MPP from Chatham-Kent-Leamington says he’s not going to be vaccinated as ordered by Doug Ford

Friday

• Three of our town managers are now longer employed by us. Details to follow perhaps
• Important information about Delta and how kids are at risk

Saturday

• I used “God Mode” a long time ago. It’s an interesting way to tweek and get more from Windows. Now, do it in Windows 10
• Not a good piece of information for Microsoft – people are not liking the look of Windows 11

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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 August 15, 2021
  • Weekly summary of things around here
• Monday – Barely worn
  • What you see on Marketplace when you’re not really looking
• Tuesday – Funnies museum
  • A place to check out cartoons before they became graphic novels
• Wednesday – Another throwback tangent
  • Sue Bruyns sent me looking for Carmen Sandiego
• Thursday – Evolving π
  • Pi through the years of education
• Friday – This Week in Ontario Edublogs
  • My weekly look at seven blog posts from around the province
• Saturday – Music via PLN
  • My thoughts about an election during the fourth wave
• Sunday – Whatever happened to … ?
  • A weekly fun post to try to get you to reflect on things and share your thoughts

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#FollowFriday – August 20, 2021

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

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voicEd Radio

Paul McGuire was the guest host for This Week in Ontario Edublogs and shared a musical and principal perspective on things

Featured bloggers:

• Paul McGuire – @mcguirp
• Lisa Corbett – @LisaCorbett0261
• Matthew Morris – @callmemrmorris
• Dave Cormier – @davecormier
• Tina Bergman – @blyschuk
• Heather Lye – @MsHLye

This week’s show:

https://voiced.ca/podcast_episode_post/embracing-anxiety-uncertainty-and-creative-potential/

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.

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Technology Troubleshooting

When turning it off and then on again and it doesn’t work…

Use the internet to find out the next step – do a factory reset.

I hate doing a factory reset on anything because that means doing some research and finding everything that you want to have installed. It also implies that the technology screwed up because I did something.

On the other hand, it now works…

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Video of the Week

Will he be allowed in the legislature?

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Photo of the Week

The dock at Colchester is never the same.

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

This blog post was originally posted at:

https://dougpete.wordpress.com/

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