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This is one of those "let's have a go at this..." moments. It's a 'development' of some of the excellent QR code work that Noel Jenkins has done. I read this week that some graffiti artists are now using QR codes to 'tag' their work... The idea of tagging is spreading (apparently there is no # tag on an Apple keyboard, although hashtags are now becoming very common...) It's obviously important to tag resources so that people can find them, photos are tagged on Flickr so they can be searched, and an extension of that is geotagging , which is now built in to some digital cameras, and is added to photos taken with my iPhone for example. So TOUCHATAG was introduced to me by John Davitt via some tweets and details from a conference that I followed remotely. John is also planning an event called Learning on the Beach #lob10 in Ireland which I would have attended as 'this year's Islay 2020' style CPD, but instead I will be at Glastonbury
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Over to Aylesbury yesterday to Millennium House for the first meeting in connection with the new strategic partnership between ESRI (UK) and the Geographical Association. ESRI (UK) are also the first GA corporate member. This has been quite a long time in the planning, and was announced over the weekend, but there will be more on this to come at the GA Conference next week. GIS is now part of all key stages, and is specifically mentioned in the KS3 Programme of Study . From the press release: This new partnership brings together ESRI (UK)’s expertise in GIS (Geographical Information Systems) and the GA’s understanding of the learning and teaching of geography. With GIS now a compulsory part of the national curriculum, the organisations will combine forces to help teachers respond to the curriculum changes and introduce GIS into geography lessons. The signing of this first partnership agreement is a new departure for the GA. With funding in place for the next three years the GA can pl