Geography and all that Jazz

Coastal Fieldwork Day Well, what a busy day followed by an even busier evening of CD burning, photo uploading, website updating, NING additions, Animoto movies, batch resizing, FLICKR uploading etc. all so that the images and data can be available tomorrow and for half term when students will be working on their write ups for their exams... Below are a few sample images of the day. For more, check out the full glory of the 100+ images on the new FLICKR SET... Also below are some images sent to me by Jon Wolton of my recent RGS-IBG day. The presentations from the day, including a cut down version of mine are now available on the RGS website ON THIS PAGE. The stage ready for the second half - I'm sat at the end of the second row of seats, behind the bloke standing next to the lectern, who was the Chair for the day. The mighty Simon Oakes is stood in the doorway ! Stuart Downward in action... Me and Simon O watching carefully in the background... Imagine my slides in full glory on tha...

Image by Flickr User Innes Keighren My Big Day at the RGS AS / A2 Study Day Event was chaired by Andy Yarrow, Headteacher of Hornsey School for Girls. The first part of the day was presented by Helen Young, who used to present the weather for the BBC Weather Centre and also worked for the Met Office in Exeter. She talked through some of the ‘myths of climate change’ and explained some of the natural and forced (?) variability of climate over the last 400 000 years and the accuracy of computer models today compared with earlier models. She was followed by Simon Oakes, a principal examiner for Edexcel , who delivered a high octane run through of impacts of globalisation using Armenian heavy metal and contemporary examples to produce a different angle on the well-worn topic which will form part of all new A level specifications. A session on applying for Geography at university followed, with Dr. Alastair Owens from Queen Mary University. Meanwhile I was enjoying the hospitali...

RGS-IBG Study Day Thursday of next week is another conference - this time for AS/A2 students at the RGS, and I will be speaking in the afternoon in the Ondaatje theatre, which is also the venue for Michael Palin just 3 days earlier. See the rather nice picture of the theatre below taken by Flickr user I will be speaking on using the Internet for Study Skills Above are some of the slides from the presentation, an edited version of which is available on Slideshare. See some of you there !!

A pottering day, but Geography came in as always... Out to the opticians as needed an eye check: fortunately my IWB projector doesn't seem to have made a difference to my eyesite but apparently my ability to focus is on the way out, just part of getting old... Ordered new glasses as my existing ones snapped a few days ago (hence the Jack Duckworth reference in an earlier post) Weather was very changeable today. Free Horrid Henry for my daughter with the Times. A few books catching my eye in book shop: interested in Richard Girling's 'Sea Change': a useful resource to download as well with an extract HERE . (PDF download) Richard Girling article in THE TIMES on flooding in the UK. Also bought a copy of Sarah Murray's "Moveable Feasts" which looks at the journeys that our food makes: useful for some resources I'm developing - also the key role of the shipping container, which I've long mentioned as being a key part of globalisation in terms of reduc...