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| | Continued at... | | | | | Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:38 AM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| Mac versus PC Explained |
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| Monday, January 7, 2008 9:55 PM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| The Consumer Electronics Show is on in Las Vegas this week. This is an event that I've alway wanted to attend just to see all of the innovation in the technology field. I'm sure that a lot of technology dies on the floor but it's the show that's th |
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| January 2008 Newsletter |
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| Sunday, January 6, 2008 8:21 PM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| Happy New Year! The January 2008 edition of my newsletter, GEC Computers in the Classroom is now online. http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/Jan08/ |
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| If the Queen can do it |
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| Friday, January 4, 2008 7:49 AM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| Interesting observations from a student in the UK. http://students2oh.org/2007/12/26/royal-changes/ He asks a good question. If the British Monarchy is on top of things like having the Queen's Christmas message delivered via the latest in technolo |
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| Webinar |
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| Tuesday, January 1, 2008 12:08 PM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| Not a great deal of comment needs to go with this post. http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0160393320080101?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0 Let's deep-six the term "Webinar& |
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| End of an Era |
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| Monday, December 31, 2007 12:23 PM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| I suppose that it was bound to happen. This week, Netscape announces the end of support for the Netscape product in February, 2008. http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers This is a really sad announcement. Wi |
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| Silverlight |
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| Sunday, December 30, 2007 6:49 PM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| You know, I've got to stop reading PC World. Every article I read reminds me of how much I don't know about computers. It's gone past humbling to embarrassing. Today's issue was entitled: "Microsoft to Heat Up Battle vs. Flash in '08" a |
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| A Community for Cars? |
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| Saturday, December 29, 2007 10:18 AM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| PCWorld reports on IBM's five predictions for the future at: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140818/article.html The one intriguing prediction surrounds making your car one with the road. For years, the infrastructure has been been laid along wi |
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| Netherlands Adopts Open-Source Software |
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| Thursday, December 27, 2007 8:10 PM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| From the AP, comes this story: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gK-eb7SFzG8QLvOOlfdt_cPMnFmwD8TGNLJ80 I can't begin to agree wholeheartedly with organizations that take this approach. One of the biggest reasons why you'll hear people talk about |
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| Disconnected |
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| Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:56 AM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| We've returned home from the annual trip to Clinton and the family homesteads. It was great to see everyone again and the food was excellent. It's a real shame though that turkey doesn't get served more often. Why does it take a special event for |
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| A Blogging Host |
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| Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:39 PM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| I've been looking at a number of places to do blogging and keep returning to the FirstClass system. I want something that's responsive and fast to visit. I've tried so many and they are either slow or have a bunch of advertising to them. FirstClas |
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| Jeremy Gutsche at Symposium |
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| Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:28 PM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| After lunch, Jeremy Gutsche took the stage. He has a standard type of speech called "Unlocking Cool". For us, he bounced in a few extra letters and modified the talk to that we was talking about "Unlocking School". The message |
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| Will Richardson at Symposium |
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| Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:27 PM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| Symposium 2007 was last week in London. We had another terrific turnout even with the threat of bad weather. But, after 2006, we can deal with anything! The morning keynote speaker was Will Richardson who set a terrific tone to the day. His focus wa |
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| So little time |
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| Friday, December 14, 2007 6:55 AM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| Symposium 2007 was held yesterday in London and am now in the recovery mode. As a result of Will Richardson's and Jeremy Gutsche's speeches, I am walking away with a huge to-do list. Totally inspired and have a whack of notes that I've got to go th |
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| December Newsletter |
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| Wednesday, December 5, 2007 8:27 AM -0500 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| My December GEC Computers in the Classroom Newsletter is now online at: http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/Dec07/ December is Symposium month for the [ http://www.westernrcac.org ]Western Regional Computer Advisory Committee. Each year, this one day c |
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| Be my friend... |
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| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:03 AM -0400 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| Would you like to be my friend? Join me on Facebook, the social networking site. There's lots of good fun there and I'm always available for a game of Scrabulous. http://www.facebook.com From an internet account that doesn't block this site, of c |
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| Report Card Season |
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| Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:14 PM -0400 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| Things are swinging into Report Card season. Once again, we will be using Markbook at the Secondary School level for mark entry into Trevlac for the purpose of doing reports. At the Elementary Panel, we will use the latest version of eTeacher. Sch |
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| Who Knew? |
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| Wednesday, October 3, 2007 7:00 AM -0400 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| September only has 30 days? Geesh...October newsletter will be a day or two late. |
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| Professional Development |
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| Saturday, September 29, 2007 7:18 AM -0400 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| It's been a very ambitious September. Professional Development activities all over the place. Three days of CIESCs, three days of Notebook for new teachers, four nights of SMART Board introductions, blogging/podcasting, Graphic Organizers and First |
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| Symposium 2007 |
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| Sunday, September 23, 2007 8:02 PM -0400 | By: Doug Peterson |
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| At the RCAC Meeting on Friday, I announced the lineup for Symposium 2007. It looks like another awesome event. Hopefully, no snow! Details are online at: http://www.westernrcac.org |
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