Showing posts with label GA Website. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GA Website. Show all posts

New GA website now live

After a long period of development, testing and reviews, the new GA website is now live, and looking good in your browser of choice... Check it out...

Highlights include:
  • the latest news about the GA’s Annual Conference 2018 and celebrations for 125 years of the GA
  • the reorganised Shop where you will easily find what you want by key stage, product type or series
  • brand new sections on primary and secondary subject leadership which provide extensive support for subject leaders to help them be effective. This includes defining the role; understanding geography’s place in the curriculum; managing change; leading professional development; knowing what good teaching and learning are and leading staff and managing resources. All this is linked to the wider GA website and its excellent CPD programmes, publications, teacher networks and on-line support
  •  a fully reworked and updated ITE section with extensively cross-referenced support for teacher trainers and mentors, and for trainees providing a ‘one-stop shop’ for geography ITE and offering a wealth of material covering all aspects of geography subject training. In addition, there are pages of advice for those intending to become geography teachers and links for ITE trainers to information on the Geography Teacher Educators’ (GTE) conferences, education research and the teacher training and supply policy debate.  
  • a new section providing support and guidance on GIS. New pages give an overview of what GIS actually is and provide some practical ideas on how to embed it as part of a departmental geography curriculum. The new GA GIS webpages aim to help teachers with where to start as they seek to discover more about this powerful technology which can boost students’ geographical knowledge and data analysis skills. 

In addition, you’ll find the Journals and much of the familiar content that you are used to seeing from the GA in a reorganised and streamlined navigation so that you can quickly find what you’re looking for. 
There is a personalised members’ homepage, dedicated teaching resource and journal searches, clearer information on how to get involved with the GA, and much more.

The Wayback Machine

Thanks to @JohnDavitt for this tipoff...


The Wayback Machine is part of the Web Archive project
It now has a time slider on it, so you can enter the URL of a website and then see how it changed through its history... Some interesting changes to the GA website, and also to GeographyPages.

More changes to GA website

There have been further additional changes to the GA website.... and not just the addition of a new FLOODING section responding to the floods in Brisbane, Rio de Janeiro, Sri Lanka and many other areas (and torrential rain falling in Scotland and the NW this weekend...)

This is what one of the new changes looks like. If you mouse over any of the headings on the top navigation bar, you will now see a large drop-down box appear, which will provide information about what that will connect you with, and links to all the main sections. This means that almost all the sections of the website are now just a mouse gesture and click away...

Don't forget that you can now comment on most of the pages on the website as well. If you scroll to the bottom of any page, you will see the form that you need to fill in. If you do not log in, these comments will be sent to the web admin for approval, and you will be labelled as a Guest. If you log in, you can change your profile and an image will then appear next to your comments....
The PROFILE option is part of the new members page which appears when you log in to the website. Here's mine, complete with profile image...



You can also comment on purchases that you have made from the GA shop.

Have your say...

A new feature was added to the GA website yesterday, following discussions by the Website Editorial Board earlier in the year, and some great work by the web team.
You can now  JOIN THE CONVERSATION..
As a GA member, when you log in you will be able to add a comment to any page of the website and, if you have purchased an item from the GA shop, you can also add a STAR RATING and a comment. This will let us develop more of a community feel to the website (non GA members will have to wait for their comment to be moderated) and if you are logged in you can add an image to your profile.
I have added a comment to the page which contains my WINTER TEACHING IDEAS, so feel free to take a look at that and add your own thoughts...


The snow is falling again outside the window as I press PUBLISH POST...