The Daily Mail has an article about the impact of bloc voting on the contest, something that it was predicting before the final result. Catholicqauze has a good explanation of why none European countries are able to compete.
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Archive for May, 2008
Eurovision 2008- the debate continues…
Monday, May 26th, 2008Things I’ve been reading…
Sunday, May 25th, 2008I’m always interested in the reading material of others, Alan does this often on GeographyJazz, so I thought I would start to blog my reading material and encourage a bit of literacy.
Finished last week the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, much here for Geographers to consider, the development of disaster capitalism and its impact on nations. Very depressing, as well as very enlightening.
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Fancy a job… a Geography job?
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
MyStudiyo
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Just playing with a new web tool called MyStudiyo, it allows you to produce multiple choice quizzes that can be embedded into blogs and web pages, you can also provide a link to the quiz on the website. Very useful because it allows you to monitor the results of answers, so you can target revision. Users, in this case students, can also register, so you can judge an individual’s strengths and weaknesses. I’ve put together a simple example below.
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Geographical bias? - Belgrade Eurovision 2008
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
I’ve updated my task from last year for Belgrade 2008 (Word 200 doc kb). I’m going to use the map of voting patterns from 2007 as a starter. There was also an interesting piece on the B.B.C. about the influence of population demographics on voting.
I thought the voting has a bit more open this year… but the songs weren’t as good. My personal favourite was Iceland. Still can’t believe that Andy received less points than Spain… pure madness.
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China Quake
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Thanks to Paul Williams for this excellent and moving PowerPoint on the Chinese earthquake, I added music to it and just played. Many students were just left speechless.
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