Worldly Wednesdays #53: Discover Geography webinars

Welcome to another Worldly Wednesday. 

I started by publishing my latest Substack Newsletter #56 early in the morning.

This was because it included a mention for an event I helped present at today: 2 panel discussions in support of the forthcoming Discover Geography series from Collins.

We presented and recorded a webinar at 10am UK time - joined by people from a number of countries including Dubai, Norway, India, Dubai and across the UK. 

There were some familiar names amongst the attendees. This was followed by another at 4pm.

Thanks to the team from Collins for hosting the webinars and to Mark Enser for chairing the webinars. Good to be involved with my fellow panellists as well. My contributions varied between the morning and the afternoon one, but there were various messages I hopefully got across about curriculum enactment, fieldwork, futures thinking and hopeful geographies. 

The webinars were in support of the Discover Geography series which will start to be published from the end of February. 

This has been written to be relevant for the UK's KS3 curriculum as well as for those schools who currently teach IB MYP and other related qualifications leading to iGCSE (remember that Collins also publish a textbook for that which I was Series Editor for).

In between the webinars I worked on other support materials for Discover Geography, and also went for a walk around the muddy fields on the edge of my village to have a screen break.