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Aug 14

More Math Learning Quotes

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
August 14, 2013

[This is part of a series of posts I’m writing as I reflect on another online course I’m taking this summer, Stanford University’s EDUC115N How to Learn Math. Sure, I’m a Science teacher but I have taught Math so I’m familiar with Math instruction. Besides, we do use Math in Science so it’s not like …

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Dec 18

WordPress Troubles

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Tech Integration
December 18, 2012

I’ve been using WordPress for over six years now. I have a WordPress database on my hosting service. I also have a couple of blogger blogs and although I like them both I prefer my main, professional blog on WordPress (mainly because I’ve been using it so long and customizing it, and I’m used to …

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Nov 12

Microscope Repair Anyone?

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Science
November 12, 2012

So I’ve been looking at what we can do to replace or repair our broken-down microscopes. We have about 20 Boreal Skopes compound microscopes about nine of which are still working well. Asking around about who can fix them I learned that there are no microscope repair people anywhere in the peninsula (the North Olympic …

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Jan 08

Tough Decisions

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Class News, Ed News
January 8, 2012

Sometimes, when faced with a tough decision, I choose one that leaves me feeling bad for a long time. I can justify the decision and do so over and over. The reason I have to justify my decision is because it’s one where kids miss out. Every year for the past ten years I’ve been …

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Feb 16

Avatars

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Gamification, Tech Integration
February 16, 2009

You can make an avatar like the one below with Portrait Illustrator. You don’t even need to set up an account with any of these, just create the picture and when it looks ready just drag it to your desktop and upload it (Windows users might need to right click on the picture and save …