Happy Birthday to Mission:Explore

It's 9 years since we launched Mission:Explore. Dan reminded us all today...

It's the 9th birthday of #MissionExplore! To mark the occasion I'm sharing some of my favourite missions from the first book.

It was great to work on the book with @GeoBlogs @TomMorganJones @helenleigh @CanOfWorms @MarkformidableP and many others from @geocollective. Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/bYt2M3OugA

— Daniel Raven-Ellison (@DanRavenEllison) May 23, 2019

We shared our copies of the book. Here's the incredible Tom Morgan Jones - the amazing illustrator of the books with his... he keeps them close...






































And me with a couple, including one with the Short Loan Dymo labels we added when we were in Glastonbury back in 2010...


Second hand copies are available for around a pound on Amazon currently...

Geography Collective in Portland, Oregon

As I may have mentioned before on the blog, I did some work a few months ago for the Geography Collective on the theme of 'the local area'. This was for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC education in the USA, and Dan from the collective went over to Portland to speak to educators from all over the USA.

Now there have been some videos released from the National Council for Geographic Education for the session that Dan Raven Ellison did for the conference, and they are on the GEOGRAPHY COLLECTIVE blog.

Here's the first one and the other two are on the blog...
This is very fine work, and explains the origins of the Geography Collective and our recent work, ideas of geography and showcases projects that Dan and the Collective have been involved with....

Mission Explore at #bmoble2011

David Rogers attended the #bmoble2011 event yesterday. He talked about mobile learning (naturally) but also on themes of naughty learning / Guerrilla geography and the work of the Geography Collective.

His presentation is embedded below... with thanks
Naughty Learning in Geography at #bmoble2011

View more presentations from David Rogers

Check David's website for more on the event and his contribution. If you're quick, you can search the twitter stream for the hashtag to pick up other thoughts on the event, which sounds like it's well worth adding to the

I'm going to visit David's school / geography department in about a month's time to work with them on another project.
Looking forward to it !

Members of the Geography Collective are going to be heading off to Glastonbury again next week. For details of where to find us, check out our blog.

Tickets for Glasto...

Some tickets arrived this morning...

Now very excited..

See you in the Green Kids field for some Guerilla Geography...

I will be writing up a series of posts about the experience, and also producing some links and resources to supplement existing ideas relating to music festivals...

Just a reminder of the nice things people are saying about our Mission Explore book...

"Mission:Explore is a brilliant way to stimulate children's and young people's interest in their social and physical environment, their curiosity and their sense of the absurd. The case for risk as a necessary and exciting part of life, that needs handling intelligently, is acknowledged well. This is geography, and fieldwork, at its most creative, and has the potential to inspire a new generation of thoughtful, ethical and courageous geographers." Susan Buckingham, Professor of Geography

“it is very important for children to experience adventurous play and risk so they can learn to manage risk and keep themselves safe. Mission:Explore helps to do this in a fun and exciting way.” The Child Safety Education Coalition

"Should be compulsory reading for all university geography students" Professor Danny Dorling

UPDATE: Good to see us on the wonderful DIGITAL URBAN site.