Adrian Bruce is an innovative Australian teacher who freely gives away his work over the Internet. After nearly 10 years of giving his stuff away, his website gets over 2 million hits every month as it distributes his work to students all over the world. If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here 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 WebsiteTeacher Toolbox - Adrian’s BlogProject Starfish - An award winning class projectClass Blogmeister - David Warlick’s blog engineShannon’s Blog - As mentioned in the showPodomatic - For making podcasts easilyAudacity - For working with soundPaint.net - Paint, reinventedGo visit his website! It’s great!

VSR12: Use It Till It Breaks

Conversations with leading teachers about technology in the classroom.

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Higher Education

K-12

Educational Technology

Kathleen McClaskey and Barbara Bray take a special interest in personalised learning, differentiated instruction and the whole concept of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). In this episode we dig into many of these concepts to learn more, including the sharing of some useful apps for personalised learning.
Originally published January 20, 2012

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VSR46: This is Personal

Like most teachers, Brett Moller, Bruce Fuda, Ashley Proud and Carolyn Foote all have to deal with the realities of filters and blocks on their school Internet connection, although they all experience this reality in slightly different ways.. In this episode we talk about web filters, the need to keep kids safe online and try to balance the argument with good old fashioned some common sense.
Originally published January 13, 2012

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VSR45: Blocks and Filters

Michael Graffin is a young relief teacher from near Perth, Western Australia who has never had his own classroom but has still managed to discover the joys of working across the Internet on global projects. In this episode, Michael is joined by one of his collaboration partners Theresa Allen from Chicago, and also Lisa Parisi from New York, as we discuss the wonders of learning using online collaborative projects.
Originally published January 13, 2012

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VSR44: A World of Difference

John Warnken is a good guy. He's 58 years old, lives in Florida and is not officially a teacher. However, John has been voluntarily working with students from all over the world to help them improve their English and broaden their view of the world. He's now on a mission to help other seniors do the same. Using the power of Skype, John has spent the last 4 years Skyping into classrooms all over the world working with kids that want to talk with a native English speaker. It's a short podcast, but a great story.
Originally published April 15, 2011

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VSR43: The Global Village

Deon Scanlon, Andrew Churches, Allanah King and Amanda Marrinan are leading Australian and New Zealand educators who use iPads, iPods (and even iPhones) in their work with kids. In this episode we share 48 of our favourite and most useful iOS apps… some fun, some silly, some educational, some serious; but all amazing!
Originally published April 5, 2011

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VSR12: Use It Till It Breaks

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