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Mar 25

What Am I Missing Here?

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
March 25, 2014

I need a fresh perspective on something I’ve been struggling with this school year. My reason for gamifying my courses was to motivate and engage more of my students whether they are gamers or not. Last week I reiterated something in blog post that I’ve learned in over 22 years of teaching, that no ONE …

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Feb 22

Tech Vision

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Tech Integration
February 22, 2013

Our District Tech Committee, of what I am part, was tasked with developing a Tech Vision Statement to determine what our next steps with technology will be. Our school board members have been attending conferences where 1:1 iPad programs were shared and they want to know if that or something that can and should be …

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Jan 14

I Celebrated Too Soon

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
January 14, 2013

I wrote Shift Happens just a bit too soon. I was celebrating the fact that we started our year without achievement awards or student of the month awards. Then I noticed that PBIS was on the agenda of our upcoming faculty meeting. When the topic came up it was mentioned that nearly half the year …

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Oct 03

I’m bored. So what?

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
October 3, 2011

I think about things like keeping students engaged. I wonder about helping students stay on task and having in class socializing focused on the content we are learning. I wonder about asking 28 individuals to conform so that we can get along and learn in a small space. I try to be open to new …

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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 …