Curriculum Making

This is something I will be developing when I get the chance. It's an idea for what a 3 year (assuming that teachers will still have that long...) KS3 Geography offering might look like...

Part of my Bristol session yesterday.

The yellow circle things are opportunities for some sort of 'assessment', although AfL runs through the scheme.

Will be interesting to see what happens to all the work that was done on APP too... I hope that we get to see it in some form eventually...

Tour of Britain Movie

Tour of Britain movie - Norfolk stage



Nice movie, why not plan a route through your area and make a video....

Territories

Rush: Territories (Lyrics: Neil Peart)

We see so many tribes overrun and undermined
While their invaders dream of lands they've left behind
Better people...better food...and better beer...
Why move around the world when Eden was so near?

How do you use music in the Geography Classroom ?

Urban Stories new on the GA website

Urban Earth is a project developed by Dan Raven Ellison.

I have blogged about it on numerous occasions before as a way for young people to re-present the urban spaces that they inhabit.

Ben Major has put together a great resource called URBAN STORIES on the GA website.

This suggests some additional ideas for using Dan's original URBAN EARTH walks and images....

Mapping for Change

Down to a hot and humid London for a seminar at the University College, London.

The occasion was the launch of a number of community mapping projects as part of the

MAPPING FOR CHANGE project.

After a brief introduction from Muki Haklay, there was a session led by Louise Francis, a director of Mapping for Change.

She introduced some of the people involved in maps which included climate action maps from North Dorset, and noise mapping. Check them out for examples of citizen research, participatory GIS and the use of technology to replace paper-based maps.

It was also good to meet up again with Steven Feldman from the GeoVation team, who showed me a link to GEO.ME who offer data visualisations for businesses.

Also came across a new iPhone app called WORK SNUG.

Very spatial stuff....

The new GeoVation challenge has been launched... Time to get your mapping / food project ideas in, you could get some cash...

One project that was awarded some cash last year of course was Mission Explore, and it's part of the content of the latest Very Spatial podcast, where the main feature is an interview with Dan R-E, who also talks about URBAN EARTH.

Update

Another VerySpatial podcast has since been added to the archive, which is on the theme of "Geography and Computer Games"... (and also mentions HistoryPin) - an excellent section on the inherently GEOGRAPHICAL nature of many video games....

Look out for a future post on this area, with respect to the SAGT conference later in the year....

Latitude Festival

We are going to be festival going again soon....

The Geography Collective are going to be at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk, we even feature on the poster... (although admittedly quite near the bottom...)

See some of you there perhaps ?!

Latitude Festival was the focus for a super scheme of work that I have, which was produced by the GA-Quality-Mark-holding Woolvens :)

River Parrett Trail

One of the interesting outcomes of Glastonbury was that we made contact with a whole range of geographers, from young geographers aged 4 and 5, to big geographers in their 40's and 50's....

One connection made on the final day led us to an interesting project on the River Parrett, quite close to Glastonbury.