Geography and all that Jazz

New population and migration resource.. Thanks to Stacey McCabe for telling me about a resource on the Welsh NGfL site . It contains 5 lessons on MIGRATION The resource contains a range of interactive resources which are engaging and would be useful in areas outside of Wales.

Immersive Tourism experience in Mexico From the LA Times. Discovered while researching the controversy over the filming of the new James Bond film, which was filmed in Chile, which stood in for Bolivia. More on that later. Here's a video of this tourist excursion: a simulated attempt to illegally enter the USA. Click to VIEW (couldn't get EMBED code to work..)

Excellent student-produced video on the Environmental Impacts of Migration... Find more videos like this on AS/A2 Geographers at KES

This week, on More4, there was the first TV screening of Nick Broomfield's film GHOSTS, which is about the deaths of 23 Chinese cockle pickers off Morecambe Bay in 2004. The MORECAMBE VICTIM FUND has been set up to raise money for the vitims' families. It features video and other information related to the victims of the tragedy, along with a comprehensive range of media articles. This has a lot of links with both geography, in terms of migration and work on consumption, and also Norfolk, where the main character in the film ends up working for a gangmaster picking vegetables for supermarkets. I came across this very interesting description of a response to the film in the Light and Shade blog of Lianne. Hopefully she won't mind me repeating this short section: "More than 24 hours later I still feel somewhat shaken by the experience. Despite the harrowing scenes, a more mundane moment particularly stuck with me. Ai Qin is picking spring onions and casually asks someo...