Geography and all that Jazz

Dubbleclick... A new resource for FAIRTRADE: design a computer game competition. The website is unfortunately BLOCKED at my school, despite it obviously being an educational site. The DUBBLE site is still there. Closing date is the 3rd of June. You can download a LESSON PLAN, ENTRY FORM, DOWNLOADABLE STORY BOARDS and a short VIDEO of a professional game designer. The winners will have their idea turned into a real game by Atticmedia, and featured on the DUBBLE website. Good luck !

Geography and Electricity General Electric: an American energy company have a nice site called GEOTERRA which is aimed at exploring ideas of renewable energy by providing a series of FLASH games on an island, which explores issues to do with energy conservation such as blasting air at windmills and steering trains around a route. Geography and Chocolate Certainly eaten a lot of it in the last 10 days or so... Charlie and Lola are a favourite of my kids. Was just browsing Amazon for some sales bargains, and found this new book, which is due to be published in February 2007, when it will cost £2.99 - you can pre-order now. Could be a good resource to use as a prize for younger geography students. Why not order several copies at that price... The book is to raise funds for COMIC RELIEF . There is going to be a RED NOSE DAY on the of March 2007, and the site is already up. You can download a set of excellent Interactive Whiteboard resources: 5 FLASH files which would make great sta...