BBC Augmented Reality GIS Demo Thanks to Ollie Bray for tip-off...
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Box clever.... Image by Flickr user splorp under Creative Commons The BBC have branded a shipping container , and have fitted it with various GPS tracking devices, and are about to follow it as it travels around the world... Last year, I produced a resource looking at the use of the SHIPPING CONTAINER as a box that changed the world. This came out of a book by Sarah Murray called MOVEABLE FEASTS . Click the logo below to go to the book's accompanying website... Click THIS LINK to download a PDF from the Moveable Feasts site which looks at the birth of the shipping container... At the moment, the BBC's branded box is in Southampton, but you can track it's progress on this MAP. Its first journey is apparently a lorry trip up to Scotland to be loaded with whisky.... Mmmmm.... whisky.... There is a page with all the relevant information and weblinks. I suggested on the Edexcel NING that teachers could perhaps use this as a method of exploring the idea of GLOBALISATION ......
On the hottest day of the year so far, I caught a train down (bargain thanks to my Network card) to King's Cross, and wandered along Euston Road to the BBC Broadcasting House. Had my usual West Cornwall Cornish pasty (wholemeal vegetable), and a swift half in a classic London corner pub. Over to queue and go through security, and met up with some geography chums. Once inside, it was deliciously cool with the air conditioning kicking in. Image of BBC Broadcasting House by Flickr User Hugovk and made available under Creative Commons Into the BBC Radio Theatre: art deco decoration. Laurie Taylor chaired the discussion. A recording of the BBC 4 show: THINKING ALLOWED 3 people on the panel: Professor Richard Sennett : sociologist from the LSE Professor Doreen Massey : Open University Geographer Will Self : author of 'Psychogeography' (blogged about that before) and 'Book of Dave' Some notes from the session - lasted about 80 minutes, which has to be edited down to around...
Back to work this week following half term. Doing GLOBALISATION with Year 13. BBC has just launched a useful section looking at the CAR INDUSTRY What will happen when you slide the slider past 1975 on the diagram below to explore the GM and Toyota assembly plant locations ? Check out the BBC website for more details on this.