Hi All,

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

Over the last couple of years I’ve had the opportunity to work with some very clever students. Last year one of them knocked me up this T-shirt based on my site’s Alexa ranking. Tah!

Today when I was hunting for some files I came across it. I ripped into alexa.com to see if the rank had changed and was rather surprised to find that my site had popped up a little in the rankings. My 3 month average is the 417 219th most popular website on the Internet. Sort of makes you all warm and fuzzy inside So I jumped into Photoshop and changed the numbers to what they are today.

On digging around in the stats on the site I found that in certain countries around the world my site’s ranking is much higher. e.g .

Fiji = 2 696 th most popular, Barain = 16 196th, Australia = 44 000th, Quatar = 55 171 and that 5% of my traffic comes from The United Arab Emirates.

It was also nice to see just how many countries are downloading my resources and using them to educate. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/adrianbruce.com

All that said, I aim to keep the site growing. So feel free to get your friends to subscribe to my newsletter and pass my site around those who need the resources. I have heaps more ideas that I want to get online over the coming months esp poetry, 5 minute Science ideas, a heap more Math games, ideas on reducing ‘teacher stress’ and esp the reading games that people have converted to other languages for me to add to the site.

cheers

Adrian

A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to chat with Gary Stager over a couple of days at a conference I was presenting at. This morning I tapped into Ustream to attend one of his presentations. It was c.7am here in Oz (which was fine) but Miss Emily wanted breakfast, nappy change, love, attention etc. What I found is that you can get rather good at one handed typing

Do make sure you check out some of the Educon channels. There are heaps of fantastic ideas there to interact with and implement with your students and children.

cheers

Adrian

A couple of nights back a friend and I were discussing our Myers-Briggs profiles and she suggested I do the Enneagram Test. It was 180 questions but it really nailed my personality and I have some insight into how I work best. Have a go at the test yourself then get your partner to give it a read

Take the Online Personality Test

cheers

Adrian

PS Remember to point your RSS reader to my new feed.

Hint - When you download Google Sky through my Space Page select the Google Pack link but then only tick the Google Earth box. The Google Pack is a very big download and I find doing them one at a time is much easier.There are many other resources worth getting your class to have a look at on my Space Links page.Google Sky is just one of the fantastic educational resources for exploring space I’ve added to the my latest Virtual Library page.cheers

Adrian