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Dec 24

Sept 11, 2001 Class Book Published

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Tech Integration
December 24, 2023

After working on this class book in my Monday/Friday writing class since September 11 of this year, we finally finished it! You can snap a pic or click on the QR code below or click here to read our book online: Students researched their articles after we watched a 9/11 Memorial video to give them …

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Apr 30

STEM Meets Harry Potter!

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science
April 30, 2020

I just heard of these FREE STEM video lessons from Dr. Erica Saint Clair. She has been running free online Science classes, and starting next week the online video classes have a Harry Potter theme! Sounds like so much fun! The Harry Potter series starts this Monday, May 4, as Week 8 of the Homeschool …

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Mar 15

School Closure Planning

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Tech Integration
March 15, 2020

Updated 3/15/20 at 3:15 pm PDTSchool Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 My school district was being proactive. Seeing how the spread of COVID-19 was causing many schools around us to shut down, we started to meet to discuss what we would do in the case …

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Jul 04

I Don’t Teach Digital Citizenship

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Tech Integration
July 4, 2016

Yes, I admit it, I don’t teach digital citizenship. Well, not directly anyway. I do not teach direct digital citizenship lessons, I just haven’t had the need. I’ve looked into resources such as Common Sense Media and they have some great lessons. I’ve even set them aside and planned to use them. I just never …

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Aug 28

Hard Decisions

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Gamification
August 28, 2015

I’ve been toiling over what tools to use this year in my Science classes. I’ve been making regular use of 3D GameLab as my main LMS (Learning Management System), Classblogmeister as our class blog for student blogs, Shivtr as our class discussion forum for online, asynchronous discussions, and Classdojo and Remind for parent communication (along …