The Teacher Toolbox

For the last 6 months or so I’ve been thinking about creating a website based on funny little jokes kids have told me over the years and anecdotes from my teaching career. Funny thing is I’ve been a little too stressed to create it

Tonight I’ve finally created my first cartoon using my brand new copy of Comic Life for the PC, my Wacom tablet, Inkscape and my rather old version of Photoshop.

I hope you get a chuckle.

Adrian

Hey All,

I’ve just spent the last hour or two cruising around Google Images, Photobucket, Flickr and a few other image sites using this new Firefox plugin called ‘PicLens’. The software converts image sites to a simulated 3 dimensional art gallery. It is nice and quick, you have heaps and heaps of images you can access and you don’t have the distraction of text around the photos. This one is well worth a play.

My only criticism so far is that I can’t find a minimise button as I like to allow pictures to load while I do something else and then come back to view them. My work around was to open a second Firefox window (not a tab) and then toggle between the screens using the ‘Windows’ button.Download PicLens hereand you can get download Firefox via this page.

Have fun with it.

Adrian

	Here is an example of what I was writing about last night. This little scaffold was used to take a Year 2 class through an exploration using a website to create a bar graph. The books I find easiest to get ‘good’ results from are by Dan Green. They show step-by-step how to do each character with the maximum steps being 6 and they are less than $5 each. Too easy!
	How to Draw 101 Monsters: Easy Step-by-step
	Drawing How To Draw 101 Funny People
	Cartoon Characters (How to Draw 101…Books)
Have fun with these Adrian

Look, it’s simple… I DON’T Draw! I just bought these $5 books a year or two back that are sooooooooo easy, it makes it look like I can draw

I now firmly believe that I am not a ‘creative’ person. I just DO what ‘creative’ people do.

I can spend 3 minutes on the whiteboard writing up a scaffold for a particular class task and then add a cartoon beside it and instantly I have respect! hehehehe.

More tomorrow. It is too late now to continue esp given that Miss Emily is in the process of dropping her day sleep.

Adrian

I love exposing students to heaps of different types of Art and Picasso’s work always generates heaps of discussion about what constitutes Art.

This afternoon my son and I were playing with MrPicassoHead, it is an excellent, free, quick, fun tool to use when exploring Picasso in the classroom.

Have fun with it.

Adrian