The Teacher Toolbox

So glad I could drop by today and I trust you all have a little something to take back and implement at your school

Here are direct links to the resources I discussed today.

A bit about me - My bio

In the Beginning there was The Symmetry Project

The Starfish Web Design - Yr 3/4

Learning Centre Role Description Cards - A key to doing what I do with students.

The Science Wow Factory - Readers’ Theatre Scipts to Download - First Place in Global Virtual Classroom Project - Be sure to check out ‘The Floating Teabag’.

The Ace Kids Blog - 2007 - The joys of working with a really switched on teacher.

Puppet Poetry Movie - You have 3 minutes to demonstrate to the world how creative, intelligent and articulate you are. What will you do?

Scamper - The creative process I use to generate ideas. Substitute software for traditional tools. Combine software and different subjects.

Martian Postcards - SCAMPER in Action

Fractal Poetry Photostory - A place where Art, Poetry and Mathematics Collide

Ejay Software - Digital Music Software - try a demo

Photo Mosaic Freeware - We used it as a bit of a class fundraiser

Paint.Net - Great image manipulation program + Some of my printable tutorials

Artrage - Make sure you experiment with the ‘trace image’ feature.

3d animation - Anim8or - + I’ve added a Quick Start Guide here for you to download

Mind Maps Created in Cmap - + here is my Mindmap on How to Mindmap

The Original Ace Kids Podcasts - My Pod-o-matic Account that I use during consultancy days.

Stop Motion Animation made with Monkey Jam - A Few Tips and Tricks

adrianbruce.com - feel free to explore the site - download what you need and then hand it on to other teachers - Reading Games - Math Resources - Freeware - Lots of stuff.

The Teachers’ Toolbox = my blog - consider joing the other 15 000 people who are subscribed

Professional Learning Tools

Pageflakes - I have my Pageflakes account as one of my tabbed homepages.

Download Itunes and find some educational podcasters - Try David Warlick and Wesley Fryer to begin with.

Sign up for Twitter then head to my page to see who my Yodas are and then ‘follow’ a few to begin with. See who they ‘follow’ and pretty soon you will have instant access to many like minds. http://twitter.com/adrianbruce

Try out Edu ISland in SecondLife - The Discovery Education Network i a good place to attend workshops.

Try attending live workshops via Ustream TV - Here is Will Richardson’s ‘TV station’ - NB If you attend live you can take part in the chat session.

Have Fun With it All

Adrian Bruce