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Oct 6, 2010, 9:15 pm
Hi All,
Over the last few months I’ve had several requests from people all over the world to create a FaceBook Fan Page for my site. They told me the fanpage would be an easy way to keep up with my site updates and it would enable them to share my ideas with their friends with the press of a ... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2010, 6:10 pm
The reading games & phonics posters are some of the most popular resources on my website. It has been a while since I added anything new to this part of the site, so when my 5 y/o daughter asked me to teach her to read I knocked up this ‘t’ phonics poster.
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Aug 31, 2010, 12:34 am
Last week the boy I’m helping out with maths explored the vocabulary of 2d shapes. Here is a poster we planned together. What is a Polygon?
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Aug 30, 2010, 10:24 pm
Today’s resource is a temporal conjunctions poster. It is designed to help out with the language features of Explanation text type. The small version is great for student personal reference and the larger version is a good reference for the classroom wall. NB When doing a joint construction of... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2010, 6:03 pm
Here is another set of cards for aiding the teaching of vocabulary. Feel free to print them out and see if they work for you.
On another note, the reading comprehension section of adrianbruce.com came in as third most popular section of the website. You might like to see if there are any resources ... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2010, 9:24 pm
I once enquired of the Head of Curriculum of a school why she thought the Yr 5 & 6 cohort had no real understanding of what Division actually was. Her reply told me a fair bit.
‘You know how it is Adrian, by the time you do Addition in Term One, Subtraction in Term Two and Multiplication in T... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2010, 8:11 pm
I attended the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival last weekend and one of the highlights for me was watching the children’s book illustrator Terry Denton work a marquee full of adoring fans. He spoke well on creative processes and all the while drawing to illustrate his point
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Aug 15, 2010, 5:51 am
Aussie High School Math teacher Marc Liddell has been experimenting with Xtranormal for and in his Maths classes. He sent me this animation to check out.
How might you use this tool in Maths investigations? Instruction? Tutorial? Reinforcement? Error Analysis? Assessment? Motivation? Building posit... Comment - Like
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Aug 13, 2010, 1:50 am
GoAnimate.com: Polygon Mystery by Demanter
I like using animation tools with students to reinforce maths concepts. I also like having them choose the concept they think they ‘need’ to reinforce.
Thanks for the inspiration Marc Liddell
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Aug 13, 2010, 12:01 am
Do people really want a computer or do they just want the things a computer can do? Here are 26 apps that suit the way I work. They aid my creativity, connectivity and work flow & all from the comfort of where ever I choose to be – couch, park, bed. Nice.
1. Atomic Web Browser - I like my bro... Comment - Like
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Aug 12, 2010, 8:13 pm
Expanding Learning Horizons is one of my favourite Australian conferences. There are heaps of great ideas, heaps of people with their heads screwed on the right way and it is sooooo good to catch up with old friends as well as meet people in the flesh I know virtually.
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Aug 9, 2010, 10:59 pm
A big part of chess is forethought. Encourage your students to be proactive and find the pieces that are attacking certain squares. There is no use just putting this poster on the wall without exploring its meaning and learning the lessons it teaches. Grab the full A4 chess poster here.
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Aug 5, 2010, 11:02 pm
At some point in history each of these buildings have claimed the title of ‘World’s Tallest Building’. This code breaking activity has the students work out a few interesting facts about these buildings by deciphering roman numerals.
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Jul 30, 2010, 6:09 am
Here are three more cards to add a little variety to learning new vocabulary in guided reading sessions.
Download my Vocabulary Detective cards – set two.
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Jul 30, 2010, 4:48 am
I’m will finish a project, I will finish a project. Here is a poster for causal connectives for the explanation text type.
Download the A4 version over at the beginnings of my explanation text type webpage.
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Jul 29, 2010, 10:02 pm
I love to have a performance focus in my classrooms and the Free Harvest Sound Effects Player software adds a whole extra dimension to any play, readers’ theatre or poetry recital.
I’m with @BernajeanPorter when she says that when telling & performing stories we are looking for more tha... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2010, 8:50 pm
When teaching chess I find things run a whole lot smoother if all students know that ‘If you touch a piece you move it’. You can download this full size poster and a few others from the Chess section of my site.
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Jul 27, 2010, 6:32 pm
Last night I was having a bit of a tinker on the Ipad using Adobe Ideas. It is a simple vector based drawing program with the ability to alter the opacity of colour. The program also allows you to email your ideas directly from within the program. You can also add a photo layer which offers the abil... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2010, 2:17 am
Just finished off a page on the roman numerals site that outlines some of the statistics of the Collosseum. Wow!!!
eg Roman records show that during one particular festival, held in CCXL CE, a staggering: MM gladiators; LXX... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2010, 12:07 am
When taking guided reading sessions I was always trying out new strategies. Here is my first set of Vocabulary Detective cards. They are designed for teachers to flip through when planning guided reading sessions to ensure they are using a variety of strategies for exploring vocabulary. Download the... Comment - Like
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Jul 26, 2010, 10:52 pm
I’ve been playing with Poser 8 recently and my son is doing ‘Expanation Text Type’ in his class at the moment so I combined the two to make up this poster. You can download the A4 version from the Explanation Text Type section of my website.
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Jul 5, 2010, 7:55 pm
My machinima interpretation of Macbeth is finally complete. It has taken a lot longer than I had anticipated but in the end I’m very pleased with the way it has turned out. I am also really pleased with the amount of problems I’ve overcome and skills I’ve learnt along the way.
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Apr 22, 2010, 8:31 pm
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
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Adrian
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Apr 20, 2010, 5:20 pm
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... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2010, 5:56 am
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 nic... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2010, 11:39 pm
‘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 s... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2010, 7:28 am
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, S... Comment - Like
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Mar 22, 2010, 5:04 am
‘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 quic... Comment - Like
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