Two to follow…
Friday, April 13th, 2012Following the developments and reflections of Paul Sturtivant and Andy Knill on their blogs….
Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
Blogging elsewhere…
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011temporarily- for Hodder Geography this July. Hopefully it will provide me with some inspiration that I’m lacking at the moment.
Things that caught my eye… Week 28th of February
Sunday, March 6th, 2011Loved this find by Terry on the SLN forum. Great little starter which I’m going to use as an introduction to a revision of fronts.
Also posted a response to a mobile policy review that is being conducted at my place of work on my personal pages, any response would be grateful.
Sorted our 19th Geography Flash Meet on the 10th of March, all are welcome to join us.
One area I had success with last week was looking at the Christchurch earthquake. I like the idea of floating topicality, it makes students realise that geography is a living subject. I do struggle though with developing an appropriate response to such a recent tragic event. For Key Stage 4 it was a useful revision of plate tectonics, for Key Stage 3 I used a little strategy I picked up from Ian Murray. I first shows a clip in of the quake aftermath from the BBC, then explained the tectonic theory. I then read eyewitness accounts from the BBC website, as students actively drew what came into their minds.
It was interesting to see how students responded in a variety of ways, from artistic representations…
To storyboard accounts…
To images with associated quotes…
It was interesting then to discuss why they had drawn such responses and what key themes ran through the class set of images.
Also signed up for the RSS feed of a new Alan Parkinson blog about supporting geography teachers. Should be good… no pressure 
ICT across the curriculum
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Thanks to Rob Chambers for emailing me about this new blog, some useful ideas already related to SMART boards… which I’ll investigate over the coming weeks.
Geoblogs worth reading
Sunday, September 28th, 2008From Catholicqauze, with a hat-tip to Radical Geography. Cheers
