Archive for the ‘Eurovision’ Category

Eurovision – old idea and a new spatial perspective…

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

eurovision-song-contest-2009-svg1 Now updated. For the past two years (2007 and 2008), I’ve been considering geographical bias in the voting of the Eurovision Song Contest with students, I’ve now updated the resource. ready for our win tonight. (441 kb Word doc) ;) For the update on Sunday, please subscribe via RSS feed or email.

I’ve also produced a new resource (600 kb pdf) to consider whether there is a geographical pattern to previous winners and whether there has been a shift in winners over the past four decades, is the Eastern Bloc more powerful? I’ve afraid this resource is in pdf format, because making it compatible with Word 2003 causes the graphics to shift considerably. I’ve happy to email people a copy of the 2007 Word document if they wish to edit it.

Both might also be useful for a summer cover lesson… Do let me know if you use these resources or develop them.

Eurovision 2008- the debate continues…

Monday, May 26th, 2008

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.

Eurovision 2008 resource.

Eurovision 2008- the debate continues…

Monday, May 26th, 2008

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.

Eurovision 2008 resource.

Geographical bias? – Belgrade Eurovision 2008

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

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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.

 

Geographical bias? – Belgrade Eurovision 2008

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

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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.