Episode 12: Use It Till It Breaks
Adrian Bruce is an innovative Australian teacher who freely gives away his reading games, maths games, quizzes, posters, etc, over the Internet as a way of helping other teachers. After five years of giving his stuff away online, Adrian’s website now gets over half a million page views every month as it distributes his work to students all over the world.
A past winner of the Microsoft Innovative Teacher Award, Adrian is continually trying new things, playing with new software and thinking of new ways to integrate ICTs into his work. In this episode we get some insights into the mind of a truly creative and generous teacher.
Some links from this show…
- www.adrianbruce.com - Adrian’s Website
- Teacher Toolbox - Adrian’s Blog
- Project Starfish - An award winning class project
- Class Blogmeister - David Warlick’s blog engine
- Shannon’s Blog - As mentioned in the show
- Podomatic - For making podcasts easily
- Audacity - For working with sound
- Paint.net - Paint, reinvented
Go visit his website! It’s great!
PS: Adrian’s Blog, Teacher Toolbox, is currently coming third in the Best Educational Blog section of the Bloggers Choice Awards. Go check it out… and maybe even give him your vote!
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 am
Thanks for another great podcast. Although I have looked at Adrian’s website on various occasions, I had not realised how many others did the same, which makes me wonder why they aren’t casting a vote his way. When I look at his site I wish I was a primary teacher so that I could use some of the great resources he has accumulated.