Notes and Queries

While at the Oxford Geography Teachers' conference yesterday, I picked up some copies of the latest issue of 'Notes and Queries': the occasional newsletter of the GA's Independent Schools Special Interest Group.
It features a range of interesting articles.
I liked Fred Martin talking about progression in the use of GIS, Simon Ross on the value of overseas fieldtrips, Andrew Lee on teaching "compelling geography" and Paul Baker on literacy in geography using the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Well done to Paul Baker and Andrew Lee for producing this excellent newsletter.

There will probably be some copies around at the GA Conference at the University of Surrey in April. I'm sure readers of this blog will be coming along to that....

It was also great to hear Andrew Goudie's entertaining romp through 40 years of studies into Arid landscapes... Plenty to think about and do a bit more research into. Particularly impressed by the high quality imagery of dunes from Google Earth.... A real privilege to hear Andrew talk about his lifetime of research and travels...

Thanks to Garret Nagle for hosting the event once again....