Just upgraded to Windows Live Writer  Beta 2 to write my blogs, which now also supports tables and now has an auto spell check, which is good for me. Sadly. Wordpress doesn’t support the update of pages. Nice layout though!

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How can I encourage my child’s interest in Geography? This is a question I’m frequently asked by parents at Year 7 parents’ evening. I’ve produced this PowerPoint (You can also download now)which I’m going to print off as an A4 doubled sided leaflet. I’m interested in feedback from students and educators, anything I could add?

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Received an emailed from Is Allen, communications coordinator at Oxfam . It included news of a competion, does anyone fancy having a go? If so, I’ll put together a help resource.

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Mid-Point Poster Competition Make posters - win prizes!

Schools are invited to take part in our MDGs mid-point poster competition and win books, a poster set, and a visit to Oxfam HQ in Oxford! Use our great resources about the MDGs to help pupils design their own posters encouraging world leaders to work harder to meet the MDG targets to halve poverty by 2015.

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Two videos to support the LiveEarth event on the 7th of July. The first is basically an advertisement, Morse code is used by people to warn of the coming climate crisis.

The second is two opposing views of climate change by children, would make a great little starter or discussion point.

I’m reserving judgement on LiveEarth for the moment….

Hat tip Houtlust.

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National Geographic have a channel on YouTube, they also allow the embedding of videos, when will the B.B.C do this? A nice introduction to Global Warming.

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Programme tonight on B.B.C.2 at 9.00 p.m.,pensioners become rock stars, serious issues here, how do we treat and look after elderly people in the United Kingdom? Birth rates are falling and the population is increasingly becoming elderly, this means fewer workers, this active part of the population contributes tax, that funds the services that are used by both young and elderly dependants, for example the National Health Service.

There are a number of reasons for an increasingly grey society in the United Kingdom…

• Life expectancy has dramatically increased, we are living longer, due to better quality of life, improvements in healthcare,changes in occupations and improved working conditions.
• People are having less children. People are getting married later, increased use of contraception, women are increasingly emancipated, education means some are choosing to focus on careers, reducing the potential time they have to have children. Increasingly children are not an economic asset, but a burden, you are expensive!

This ageing population will have impacts for all of us….

How do we pay for the care of the elderly? Who pays for healthcare and pensions?

How do we get the necessary workers to run our services and work in industry?

Will we have to work longer?  Will we be willing to work longer? The Government says so…

Will younger workers be prepared to pay higher taxes for support an increasingly elderly population?

Nice video

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Another little geographical simulation to have a play with, Fantasy Farmer, let me know how you get on. This time you’re managing a farm in the United Kingdom.

I have to admit that I struggled, perhaps I was looking too deeply into the Aliens and crop circles, but my advice is to keep your food supply up…

On my first go I managed a profit of £20,270 and a farm value of £75,3477.

Hat Tip Alan Parkinson

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Just catching up with some DVD watching, some interesting quotes with a geographical theme…

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Rocky ‘I think sometimes you stay in a place so long, you become that place.’

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Rocky ‘I’m going to put myself geographically in the middle of that street.’

Quote.3

Marie ‘His Father’s Jamaican.’

Rocky ‘Arh, European.’

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This has taken at Glastonbury in 2005.

Hat-tip Geography Jazz (Alan Parkinson).

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Fighter jets over the Alps, direct link, one for year 7 from Vidipedia , there are some nice Geography videos on here.

Likes Firefox, much better than Internet Explorer.

Hat tip Russel Tar

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