You may remember a competition asking people to vote for their favourite U.K. cities on a new Monopoly board. Glad to announce that Nottingham came third… even happier to see Derby near free parking. You can view an example of the new board on the website. I wonder whether this tells us anytime about the appeal of the cities, or do the results represent the ability of the settlements to mobilise their virtual communities…. one for discussion.

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The K.H.C.T.C. student voice blog has now been set up by Mrs Robinson. Looking forward to seeing this develop over the coming months.

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The day was particularly bad, very tired and this morning managed to walk into Nottingham through a tornado…. I just thought it was a bit wet and windy, I was much more worried about my hair! Some more information about this event can be found at the B.B.C. .

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There is now a webpage on the Geographical Association website about the project I have been involved with on webcams, some nice ideas already. I need to start writing up my parts now…

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Here are the statistics I promised from our holiday postcard display.

Our sample

• Travelled to 19 different countries, with most people holidaying in the United Kingdom, Wales was very popular.
• We travelled to 3 different continents, North America, Africa and Europe. Europe being the most popular.
• The total number of miles we travelled was 45,220, this could take us 5 times around the equator.
• The furthest distance travelled was by a member of staff was Miss Lancashire, to Hawaii.
• The furthest distance travelled by a student was Stringy, to Mauritius.
• The shortest distance travelled was by the staff of the office, who travelled 11.3 metres to my pigeonhole.
• The average distance travelled was 1739 miles.
• Mr Hayden wins the award for outstanding contribution, for travelling to Albania and then doing battle with officials to post it.

Thanks to all, I’m now worrying about our carbon footprint…

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For both myself and Stringy, our blogs have both appeared in the appendix of a piece of research by Phil Wood on advances in e-learning in Geography, part of a new Geographical Association online publication. Thanks to Alan for the hat-tip.

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The postcard display is now complete and in the main Humanities area, thanks to all staff and students that contributed, Mrs Marston and her gang for putting it together, who ever thought coloured string could be so exciting,and Alan for the original idea.

I have completed a statistical analysis of our travels which I’ll post over the weekend, sorry I left it on my desk tonight!

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Thanks to Alan, who pointed me in the direction of this great video, well worth spending the ten minutes to view,useful for year 9 and their next topic, coasts.

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Just to let you all know that Miss Thornhill is safely installed in the American education system and working hard, but she is also finding time for some fun. Anyone willing to add a caption to this image?

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Thanks to all the staff, students and new students that sent the Geography Department postcards, we had fifty, over the coming weeks I’ll produce a display and associated statistics about our travels outside the new Humanities computer room.

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