Adobe’s lack of a site licence or subscription licence for schools where children own their own laptops has frustrated a friend of mine for several years now.

If you would like to see Adobe offer a product that would see their excellent software made available to students at affordable prices take 3 minutes to fill out this survey. All data collected will be presented to an Adobe sales rep.

http://www.trinity.vic.edu.au/surveys/TakeSurvey.asp?SurveyID=9M2783M25p4KG

Your time and effort are greatly appreciated.

Adrian & Rob Flavell

Where in the curriculum do we just say ‘WOW’? Where do we say, ‘Hey this is new’? Where do we say, ‘You know what, this is interesting. Let’s just have a look at it’?

Please don’t wait for an opportunity to ‘integrate’ stuff. Just do it!

This is a Gömböc

I love having heaps of puzzles in the classroom. This palindrome puzzle is great to have up on the wall and can lead to so much conversation about how to solve it logically.

You can get an A4 version of the puzzle from adrianbruce.com

cheers

Adrian

I firmly believe the mark of a person is not what they do when they are knocked down once and get back up. It is what they do when they are knocked down a fifth, sixth & seventh time.

I tip my hat to all the educators who are fighting the good fight to make Education relevant to our children in the face of massive ignorance on the part of government & traditional media.

The Haunted House Poem – (click on this link to hear it)

In schools a poem is often ‘finished’ when  it is ‘published’. Publishing often involves ‘typing it up’ ensuring the text is centred, has a lovely font (that usually takes ages to select), has a nice piece of clip art to support the text and some sort of clip art border.

The poem is then either added to a wall display for a few weeks or put into a display folder to be sent home at the end of the term. Oh, and it often has a shiny sticker on it. I guess what I’m trying to say here is that there are many other creative ways to celebrate poetry.

The poem above was a joint construction between my son and I using this poetry scaffold from my website. The audio production has been done with the free software  Audacity and using sounds from Soundsnap.com

…and if you are wondering, the spooky voice was achieved by dropping the pitch of my voice by -20.

‘Where do we just go Wow!’

Artrage – Use ‘tracing image’ you can only use diagonal brush strokes.
- Interpret a famous artwork using the tracing image function

3d Fractals – Mandlebulbs

Traditional Fractals – Fractalus

Deviant Art – Artist Comunity

Flickr – Think of some Art terms

Pageflakes – ‘Holly Skye’ & ‘Only a Fading Conception’

Cooliris – Make a gallery in your browser.

Inkscape – Digital Drawing Software – Look for tutorials & examples

-          My first examples – http://www.adrianbruce.com/stressbusters/stressbusters.htm

Online Tools – Try the Art tag on my blog –

http://adrianbruce.com/teacher-toolbox/category/art/

Here is a big Collection – http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/45-Websites-Students-Create-Original-Artwork-Online-3442983 for the kids to explore with you.

How did you learn what colors ‘go together’?

-          Kuler – What colours ‘go’ together?

-          Painting Lessons – hues, tones, tints

-          Color in Motion – What can they be used to represent? Middle Door

Andrea Photomosaic – Combine with fund raising

Dear World,

Here is a  collection of Iphone ‘Art’ apps for you to explore and evaluate. How will you sort the ‘fluff’?

CoolIris, Make a Martian, Eastern Drawing, SketchBook X, Pop Art Light, Spawn Lite, Art Gallery, Solid Dots,
Photoshop Mobile, Dash of Colour, ArtLite, SketchMee, Poly Gra Lite, SculptMaster 3d free, For All Seasons & Random Pose.

Can you do me a favour and add your favourite Iphone Art apps as a comment.

cheers

Adrian

‘Shakespeare dies every day in a high school classroom all over the world’.

This is my first page/attempt/draft/experiment with Gary’s Mod to create a cartoon version of Bill’s ‘Scottish Play’.

My plan is to have the ‘cartoon’ give the reader a quick overview of the play’s structure and complexities before they launch head long into the original text. I aim for the work to be a sort of scaffold.

What do you think?

Adrian

NB I should be working on four presentations for a rather large Aussie ICT conference tonight but just can’t get motivated so I’m embracing my procrastination and am being REALLY, REALLY productive

Miss Emily usually arises between 5am and 5:30 and it is my job to entertain her so the rest of the house can sleep. This morning we had a nice father/daughter moment when we composed a ‘fill in the gaps’ poem.

It needs to be noted that there was a lot of soft chuckles as we remembered some recent ‘terms of endearment’

My Dad Calls Me

My dad calls me Emily ThumTHucka

My dad calls me Missy

My dad calls me Hungry

My dad calls me Toad

My dad calls me Noisy Girl

My dad calls me Tonka Jim Jo

My dad calls me Sleepy Head

My dad calls me a pain in the bum.

My dad calls me Mischief

My dad calls me Miss Chatterbox

My dad calls me Thirsty

My dad calls me His Little Girl

My dad calls me Evil Incarnate

My dad calls me, ‘My Precious’

My dad calls me his Happy Shelia

My dad calls me his Baby.

I think my dad forgets my name sometimes.

I’ve been playing Mini Ninjas with Mr 10 for about a week now. During this time we’ve been taking a few screen shots of the action using Fraps 99. Above is my first comic using Mini Ninjas as the machinima engine.

Thoughts welcome.