Educator, Geek, Photographer, Motorcyclist, Lifelong Learner
The instructions on this site were invaluable to help me fix a USB drive that had multiple partitions and was no longer usable in Windows.
If your USB flash drive, SD card, or another drive isn’t working quite right, “cleaning” the drive and removing its partitions is one possible solution. This can fix problems with a drive that can’t be formatted or one that shows the wrong capacity.
Source: How to “Clean” a Flash Drive, SD Card, or Internal Drive to Fix Partition and Capacity Problems
Beautiful drawing. So appropriate. 
Source: A post from @tomralston on Ello.
Just for fun, I attached a GoPro camera to the handlebar of the Kawasaki KLX 250 I was renting from Moto Tour El Salvador back in March 2016 and set it to take pictures every 10 seconds. With the roads and trails being so rough I was amazed at the photos the camera captured. The quality of the photos clearly isn’t the equal of anything even a point-and-shoot could have taken, but I think they do a great job of capturing the adventure of the ride. Continue reading “Motorcycle Ride in El Salvador, March 2016”
This has always been my go-to program for converting DVDs or video files to MP4. I’m glad to see it’s finally graduated to version 1.0!
“After more than 13 years of development, the HandBrake Team is delighted to present HandBrake 1.0.0. Thank you to all of our many contributors over the years for making HandBrake what it is today. We again remind everyone that the HandBrake website is the only official source for HandBrake. Downloads are not mirrored on any third-party services, excepting the Linux PPA. For more information on downloading and installing HandBrake safely, please read Where to get HandBrake.”
Source: HandBrake: News
An update on the ARC review process as it relates to BDSS.
Source: Accommodation review shifts to Beamsville (Niagara This Week)
It’s not interactive like tutorials from CS Circles or Snakify so it wouldn’t be my first choice for learning Python, but as a supplemental resource, it looks great.
For those of you at BDSS that would prefer to send yearbook pictures to the yearbook committee online, I’ve created a form that makes it easy:
(those are capital o’s, not zeroes)
The form should work nicely from your cell phone, so you don’t have to wait until you’ve transferred the pictures to your computer to get them to us. I would recommend bookmarking the form so you can get back to it easily.
Note that you’ll have to be logged into your DSBN Google account to access it.
Linked below is a Job Interview assignment I use with my students in various classes. Other teachers are free to adapt or use it for their own classes.
The assignment is also available at my GitHub account here.
#Technovation movie night for team @BDSSBucs! @codegirlmovie Next steps: Team name. Team website. Fifth member.
— Peter Beens (@pbeens) December 15, 2016
Following is a report template I use with my TGJ4M students as part of their final ePortfolio. Other teachers are free to adapt or use it for their own classes.
