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Thanks to Ollie, I really like this, ToonDoo, you can have some fun with the upload tool!

I’m interested in using this as a way of expressing processes or stories with a geographical theme… (Click to see the full cartoon).

Have a play yourself, can you illustrate a geographical concept or produce a little cartoon strip with a geographical theme?

Let me know you if do, so I can show examples. I’ll reward those they have a go!

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Congratulations to Greg, outstanding achievement, and Russell, outstanding effort, that won the Geography prizes at this afternoon’s Record of Achievement Celebration. Well deserved, sorry I couldn’t see the Geographers suited and booted.

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The Year 11 ,at revision tonight, were making coastal and glacial features from Plasticine, then explaining their formation by diagram. We’re decided to have a little competition.

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Which do you think is best?

1 Ribbon Lake by Mitch and Matt

2 Corrie by Peter

3 Glacial Trough by Simon

4 Arete by Luke

5 Scree Slope by Greg

6 Hanging Valley by Carmen

7 Coastal Stack Formation by Mikey

8 Coastal Spit by Kirsty

9 Headlands and Bays by Big G

Please leave a comment below, or on the direct link, and a reason why. 

Comments welcome from all blog readers.

This is serious, pride and a cheap post-Easter Egg from Tesco are on offer! Also we want to make this a top rating YouTube video

Closing Date: 8th April 2007.

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Today, Year 11 GCSE Geographers from four schools across Ilkeston came together for a revision conference.

The schools involved were

Kirk Hallam Community Technology College

Ilkeston School

St John Houghton

and Bennerley School

The students were treated like conference delegates, each having their own conference badge, pack and arranged seating place. Let’s not forget the pencil, with laser engraved motif! (Thanks Mr Hamer for these )

We focused on the generic for the conference.

Mr Thomson delivered sessions on unpacking an exam question and using maps and aerial photographs.

Mr Poland, apart from adding energy to the event , focused on data handling and ran a table country competition.

Mrs Marston, did a great decision making exercise, focusing on wearing the right hat for the examiner!

Mr Storey, did the leg work today, organising prizes and general goodies.

I did a presentation on specific geography revision techniques, I wasn’t that impressed with my performance, particularly because the ICT let me down. (I promised after my last presentation never to use a foreign computer again, apart from my Betty ), but I received some nice feedback from students and staff at the end.

My presentation can be downloaded here (PPT 3mb), apart from the video clips, which didn’t work anyway!

Also nice to see some of our Ex-Geographers now doing A-level, brief words with Foxy, Ian H and Matt B.

Thanks to all the students from all schools, your behaviour and attitude was excellent. For any Year 11 readers, please feel free to leave comments, this was the first time through and we are keen to improve the event.

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From Alan Sugar in the ‘Apprentice ’ tonight, ‘Who’s the Geographer here?’ referring to the placement of the teams’ coffee outlets.

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Year 8’s are/will be looking at shopping, so are Year 10 at GCSE! On the GCSE blog, I’ve asked staff to write about their shopping memories, they make interesting reading. How are they different to how you shop today? Post your ideas below…

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Due to the popularity of the Geography simulations, I’ve now added them to the left sidebar under GeogGames.

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This is a brilliant geographical simulation game, take a potential disaster and prepare an area against destruction.  I did well with the Hurricane simulation, let me know what you think.

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Good idea or bad idea? Vote in the poll or leave a comment below. I completely dislike it, apart from losing an hour, which could be spent sleeping, it also messes with your blog timestamp, so apologises for those that have struggled to leave a comment.

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