Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Nov 4, 2009, 8:47 pm
I’m currently doing a favour for a friend of mine and working with her son because the lad is ‘beating himself up’ about his maths knowledge. Here is a game I’ve made for him ...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Oct 25, 2009, 3:14 am
I do so love playing with this technology with Samuel (Mr 10)! Spore has a video capture function built into it so we just grabbed a heap of video shots of one of the characters and put them together...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Oct 22, 2009, 7:42 pm
A few years back after giving a keynote to a rather large group of educators, one of the ‘invited officials’ beckoned me over. “I like you & I especially like your quote,  ‘S...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Oct 21, 2009, 4:49 am
. . . . When it comes to Farmville sheep wandering across my Facebook news feeds I’m starting to believe catharsis is so much more fun than rationality Feel free to send this to anyo...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Oct 18, 2009, 2:59 am
Another of the things I love about machinima is the irreverent humour. Feel free to make humourous suggestions for the dialogue of this comic Plus, I think I mentioned it before, I love leaving the...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Oct 16, 2009, 7:38 pm
In the coming weeks I’m flying off to Mackay to run a whole day Gifted & Talented workshop on machinima. I’ve been working on ideas for this workshop for the last few months and am just a...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Oct 15, 2009, 12:35 am
I’d love a Google Wave invite to check out the possibilities for education. Anyone? Anyone? GoAnimate.com: How I'll Use Google Wave by differentspin Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.c...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Oct 14, 2009, 7:04 pm
With the passing of the 40th anniversary of the first Moon Landing Google has added the Moon to Google Earth. So last night I added a few Moon Exploration Ideas to my website that you might like to ex...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Oct 14, 2009, 4:43 am
Over the last week or so I’ve been reading a book by Matt Groening  (The Simpsons Handbook: Secret Tips from the Pros) and tonight is my first experiment with drawing a character with an overbi...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Oct 13, 2009, 4:46 am
After a long day I was just having a little play with my Oddfellows , my new Digital Camera &  Comic Life
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Oct 9, 2009, 5:01 pm
Built into Google Earth is Google Mars. It works exactly the same as Google Earth ie you can zoom in, zoom out, fly over, explore and do tours. This software offers a beautiful opportunity to explore ...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Oct 9, 2009, 3:37 am
I have so, so, SO! been in love with the World Wide Telescope since it was announced at TED last year. You simply must download this magnificent software and get your students to explore it. So many d...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Sep 23, 2009, 2:59 am
Today I’ve been working on a poster for a friend of mine to give a simple ‘tag’ to help kids remember the properties of prisms. Feel free to download this prisms poster if you need i...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Sep 15, 2009, 5:09 am
I recently took my son to a ICT in Education Conference where he led a group of teachers through three half hour workshops on video game making, stop motion animation & movie making using a Flip video...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Sep 11, 2009, 3:02 am
The computer is the most powerful learning tool ever created. So why are the majority of my professional dialogues centred around strategies for getting teachers to turn them on? Teachers should b...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Sep 10, 2009, 1:15 am
Last month when the rug rats were snug in their beds I had the pleasure of chatting via Skype with the Ed Tech Crew lads Darrel Branson & Tony Richards for their podcast. We had a great chat and cove...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Aug 7, 2009, 3:33 am
Mr 10 (Samuel) will be co-presenting with me at Expanding Learning Horizons next week and today he has been working flat out on his parts of the workshop. Amongst other things he will be taking a grou...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Aug 6, 2009, 2:53 am
I believe that there are only a few things that are certain in the lives of people and one of those things is that they will have to solve problems. In this activity the students could only animate t...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Aug 5, 2009, 5:38 am
There are so many opportunities available for teachers to explore in order to ‘value add’ to the quality and scope of the education they provide students. So why is it we constantly hear...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Aug 4, 2009, 12:07 am
Over the last few years I have found myself more and more in tune with the concept of ’slow knowing’. I tend to take a long time to make up my mind about some things. I might experiment wi...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Jul 31, 2009, 5:28 am

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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Jul 27, 2009, 9:31 pm

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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Jul 26, 2009, 5:12 am

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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Jul 22, 2009, 6:34 am
Where in our classrooms do we celebrate genius?  Where do we demonstrate genius? Where do we question what constitutes genius? Where do we demonstrate that there is sooooooooo much more to doing R...
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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Jul 20, 2009, 2:39 am

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Adrian B. posted an article on The Teacher Toolbox - Jul 19, 2009, 4:15 am

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