My Week Ending 2021-11-28

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 daily under the title OTR Links.

Sunday

• I’m a sucker for any post that offers tips on using technology more effectively – this time for the Chromebook. I felt kind of glad that I was using most of these already
• If you follow education at all, you know of the struggles that both students and teachers are having with 2.5 hour classes

Monday

• A state in Germany is switching to Linux and open source – we’ve seen this before and then there was a switchback. Geeky people can absolutely do it. How about others?
• Good news coming to those in British Columbia about a dike that was repairs to stop the flooding

Tuesday

• Latest Windows 11 update has emojis; I wish that they’d spend time fixing things that are broken instead – see troubleshooting below 😢
• Sadly, another report of a local school that has been closed as a result of COVID-19 – update, this morning the closing has been extended

Wednesday

• If you love maps, you’ll love this alternative look at things as told by other maps
• An interesting post – in a world where you can find a million reasons to not use the Microsoft Edge browser, here are a number of reasons why you should

Thursday

• Interesting negative opinion about some of the decisions that “Big Tech” has made that trickle down to education
• There were a number of post on HuffPost about alternate ways people celebrate the American Thanksgiving. I loved this one

Friday

• A great post summarizing the original purpose of programming which was not all about getting a job
• This might be a good read if you’re thinking about a Chromebook for a Christmas gift. There are some things to be aware of

Saturday

• Hopefully, this bill will make it easier for those who are seeking healthcare and keep picketers out of the way
• 8 000 children aged 5-11 vaccinated – a good start and now the province is off and running

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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 November 21, 2021
  • Weekly summary of things around here
• Monday – Sounding better
  • A new set of controls appears for my microphone
• Tuesday – Spamming and scamming
  • Your phone isn’t safe
• Wednesday – Buying a lottery ticket
  • Spam for the win
• Thursday – The effects of media
  • As I settled down to watch football
• Friday – This Week in Ontario Edublogs
  • A review of seven recent blog posts from Ontario Educators
• Saturday – If my english teachers could see me now
  • Who knew that blogging would be my writing opening
• 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 – November 26, 2021

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

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voicEd Radio

This Week in Ontario Edublogs is a show/podcast that features great writing from Ontario Edubloggers.

Featured Bloggers:

• Laura Elliott – @lauraelliottPhD
• Laura Wheeler – @wheeler_laura
• Melanie White – @WhiteRoomRadio
• Matthew Morris – @callmemrmorris
• Will Gourley – @WillGourley

This week’s show:

https://voiced.ca/podcast_episode_post/positivity-the-stress-of-normal-walk-and-talk-and-more-more-more/

Opening Song:

Closing Song:

All of the shows are archived here. The show is broadcast LIVE almost every Wednesday morning at 8:45 on voicEd Radio.

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Technology Troubleshooting

For the most part, Windows 11 has been a good decision for me. Most everything works and I’m forcing myself to use the Edge browser and it’s not bad.

I’ve got one of those little gotchas though. As I write this, I have a concert playing in another windows and I’m humming along. So, the video and audio are great as far as I’m concerned.

Windows, on the other hand, disagrees.

I can fix it easily enough. FN+UP notches the audio up something that’s undetectable by me and makes the X go away.

But I shouldn’t have to do that and find a workaround.

I’m not the only one reporting this problem. It’s probably not a big deal in the big scheme of things but for people like me who obsess about getting things right can’t unsee it when it happens!

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Video of the Week

Not a good news week in the COVID-19 virus front.

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Photo of the Week

Another from the lights at the King’s Navy Yard in town. I walked by it last night with Jaimie and it was too cold to take off my mitts but it showed up in my Facebook memories. How strange is that?

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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