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School / Work Affiliation: Chimacum Middle School

Blog: http://mrgonzalez.org/

Website: http://educatoral.com/

About Me: I teach 6th grade Science (ecology and physical science) as well as 8th grade Earth Science. I have been teaching for 18 years and have my National Certification as an Early Adolescent Generalist as well as a Masters in Teaching. I also have my ISTE Capstone I certificate and am currently working on my ISTE Capstone II certificate. Teaching can be fun for teachers as well!

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Posted on April 17, 2007 at 11:22am 3 Comments 0 Likes

Hello everyone,

I'm very intrigued by this whole Web 2.0, Classroom 2.0 movement and I'm here to see what others are doing so that I can try new things. I'd also love to share the things I'm doing.

I've heard about teaching using iPods and cell phones. Come on. Is anyone out there using those for student learning? If so I'd love to hear what you're doing.

Al G.

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At 7:39pm on January 31, 2009, Jack said…: Hi Alfonso. I was wondering if you have students or educator friends who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

At 2:03pm on December 26, 2008, Alyshia Olsen said…: Hi,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.

Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

Thanks,

Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

At 4:58am on August 22, 2008, Kevin said…: Alfonso,

I started a new Ning site for Middle School Science Teachers and I see that you teach middle school science. Maybe you want to check it out.
Thanks,
Kevin