Resources for EAL students.
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Thanks to Helen, for directing me to the Ethnic Minority Attainment website, a great wealth of practical information here, including a developing section of resources for different subjects.
Archive for May, 2007
Some Rocky geography…
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Just catching up with some DVD watching, some interesting quotes with a geographical theme…
Quote.1
Rocky ‘I think sometimes you stay in a place so long, you become that place.’
Quote.2
Rocky ‘I’m going to put myself geographically in the middle of that street.’
Quote.3
Marie ‘His Father’s Jamaican.’
Rocky ‘Arh, European.’ 
Some Rocky geography…
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Just catching up with some DVD watching, some interesting quotes with a geographical theme…
Quote.1
Rocky ‘I think sometimes you stay in a place so long, you become that place.’
Quote.2
Rocky ‘I’m going to put myself geographically in the middle of that street.’
Quote.3
Marie ‘His Father’s Jamaican.’
Rocky ‘Arh, European.’
Thanks
Friday, May 25th, 2007Thanks to all for the kind comments and feedback on the newsletter. Wishing all staff and other readers a happy half-term.
Also welcome to Alan Parkinson, online colleague and writer of Geography and all that Jazz, who becomes the blog’s first external link. Don’t be turned off by the ‘Geography’ bit, Alan is the best web watcher I know, if it’s new, he usually knows about it, and more than often there is cross-curricular application.
Fancy a festival?
Friday, May 25th, 2007This has taken at Glastonbury in 2005.
Hat-tip Geography Jazz (Alan Parkinson).
Fancy a festival?
Friday, May 25th, 2007This has taken at Glastonbury in 2005.
Hat-tip Geography Jazz (Alan Parkinson).
Jets over the Alps…
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Fighter 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
Antarctica tour.
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Nice tour of Antarctica, direct link, from Vidipedia, there are some nice Geography videos on here.
Hat tip Russel Tar.
Tends to like Firebox better than Internet Explorer
Vidipedia.org
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Vidipedia is a developing video wiki, it has some interesting videos uploaded, for example, the video tour of Antarctica. As always, check to make sure that the content is appropriate. You can download the videos if you want to use them stand-alone. The download is a flash video, which you can’t show on our network, but you can convert the file by using Zamzar, make sure you choose an mpeg or avi file.
Tends to like Firefox to Internet Explorer.
Hat-tip Russel Tarr
CITAL-TAL Forum…
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007For Teachers and Educators…
One of the areas I have been working on over the last half-term is co-ordinating teaching and learning at my College.
As part of sharing our practice with other educators I have now set up the CITAL-TAL blog, please be gentle it is currently under construction.
You can read a ‘snap-shot’ of our practice and other projects within our teaching and learning newsletter, which will be published half-termly.
Much will not come as a surprise for my online Geography colleagues, in fact, many are credited with ideas.
We are keen to have conversations with other educators across the world, whatever the subject specialism or age range. Please feel free to leave comments.
If you have a teaching and learning co-ordinator at your establishment, I would be grateful if you could pass on the link. This is a new role within our College and I’m keen to discuss it with others.
We now have a Research and Development Group, as a group we are keen to visit schools involved in innovative projects or just to see good practice. Of course, you are welcome to visit us!
Many thanks
Tony
