Noel Jenkins in action... This exciting video by Noel shows him in the classroom... Lots of movement, and gives a flavour of the energy needed to be a classroom teacher... Nice work ! a day in the life of my classroom from Noel Jenkins on Vimeo .
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London 2012: both sides of the coin... My daughter is currently doing some half-term homework: designing a 50p coin to commemorate and celebrate the London 2012 Olympics, as part of a competition being run by Blue Peter ... Meanwhile, here is Noel Jenkins with the first of a planned series of videos looking at the impact in Portland, where the sailing events are going to be held. Impact of the 2012 Olympics on a local business from Noel Jenkins on Vimeo .
Thanks to Simon Renshaw for telling me about the PIC LENS / COOL IRIS add on for POWERPOINT (as long as you have the 2007 version) Turns your slides into a 'picture wall' which you can browse through and select just as you can with FLICKR images. Here's a screenshot of my BEDFORD GIS presentation being viewed with the plug in.... Noel Jenkins has also done a demo of another cool tool which Geographers would find useful: RICH CHART , which can be embedded into GOOGLE EARTH placemarks, and produces a range of charts from fieldwork data or other sources. Some creative ideas for Christmas !
Just spent a considerable amount of time sorting out some images for a forthcoming document, and was interested in Noel Jenkins' current DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION , where all the images were taken by Noel. Why not go along and vote for your favourite. While you're at it, check out some of Noel's other excellent, and very geographical images HERE. Jurassic Shipwreck: image by Noel Jenkins
Just back from a trip to York. Some new bits of the A1 now open after some years of engineering work... Catching up with some interesting postings on Noel's DIGITAL GEOGRAPHY . Some new Web 2.0 stuff. Revision video podcasts GIS ideas from a meeting at the RGS An online photo editor called Picnik Plenty of ideas on teaching GLOBALISATION. Using music videos in class Head over and check out the ideas now... Just discovered why it's important to check your website server logs every day. I normally do this, but forgot on Friday. Turns out when I checked earlier today that an image on my website (actually a smallish (thankfully) version of one of Ian Murray's GEOGRAPHY PHOTOS ones) has been picked up (and used in a hotlinked version) by several Chinese news sites in an article on Chinese products being exported into the UK) - I'd had over 4000 visits that day, and 15% of my monthly bandwidth had gone in one day. Ooops. Needless to say that image is no longer on the site, an...
Geography Teachers - support the GGiP and Darfur Wall ! Check out Noel Jenkins' JUICY GEOGRAPHY for details of some rather groovy GEOGRAPHY RELATED postcard sets which will help to raise money for the above causes as well as providing a talking point in lessons, and a way of encouraging student involvement when they go on holidays ! I've ordered some - go and order some of your own ! Update: 50 sets now ordered as of 13th March - another 50 needed ! Update: First 100 sets now on their way from the USA
Geography Teaching Today A new website launched today. It's jointly produced by the Geographical Association and the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) and is funded by the Action Plan for Geography. The first website to be featured was a certain GeographyPages. Geography and Peace and Quiet.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6075774.stm Is the place where you live nice and quiet ? I live in a fairly tranquil area, but lots of places are suffering from the growing threat of noise pollution. Noel Jenkins is planning some resources on this topic. Also to come soon here are all the details of my Google Earth presentation at the SAGT Conference.