Geography and all that Jazz

School's Out ! Just back from final activities trip, and now have a few days of writing to look forward to ! BBC Radio 4 has a few interesting programmes worth checking out. First of all there is the TRAVELLERS TREE programme: an interactive program about travel. Just listening to programme about New York. The other one is LETTERS HOME (which should be available on Listen Again soon), which features letters home from a Zimbabwean student who became an asylum seeker. Useful for migration. Also been exploring an old find which I hadn't visited before: the STRANGE MAPS blog. This has links to some great maps and images. Particularly like the idea of Vlad Gerasimov's INVERTED WORLD at his blog. Latest wallpaper should appear below: Also some great images.

Happy New Year to all my readers! Currently listening again to the Radio 4 Today programme on listen again, which was edited by the G Team. Interesting clip from Vanessa Lawrence on the importance of maps in our everyday lives: "there is more geography being used today than ever before" Also item on the connection between immigration in Britain and the effect on poverty in Afric a. Apparently people of African origin send home an average of just under £1000 a year. Interview with some Ghanaians living in London and from correspondent in Ghana. An item on the growth of the EU: the link between Europe and links between Europe. My Walks : project from Northumbria University - look at familiar places as an unfamiliar place. Geography is about change in the contemporary world. Interview with Dr. Duncan Fuller from the university. Final interview with the guest editors. Doreen Massey provided a small input relating climate change to globalisation. We demand goods but don...

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...

Today Programme New Years Day Just a reminder about this programme. There is a list of some of the ideas that are to be covered on the GA WEBSITE . Also a good story here about Ollie Bray's journey home . Anyone else caught up in the fog ?

Time Magazine's Person of the Year . This year, the winner is.... ME! And anyone else who has used the Internet to create and share content... Congratulations to us all. Read the story HERE. Also, don't forget to set your alarm clock for 6.30am on New Years Day Gift of a Goat Monday 1 January 2007 6:30-7:00 (Radio 4 FM) Ethical gifts of goats to help poor African families have become a popular Christmas present. But what happens to the animals and the people who receive them? Hermione Cockburn visits Uganda to see a goat scheme in action. She investigates the challenges of keeping the animals healthy and well looked after and discovers just what it takes to ensure that new goats help rural communities struggling to find a way out of poverty. and then stay tuned for TODAY, from 7am - 9am, presented by the G Team. Visited the website just now and discovered the Museum of London's rather nice "My London" Emotional Map of the capital. Why not check out ...

Well done to Team Geography... As announced a while ago, a team of Geographers were bidding to be the guest editors of the Today programme on 1st January 2007. They were up against 3 other teams, but it was announced yesterday that the Geography team are the victorious team... There is an announcement HERE (which may move...), but well done to David L, Dan R-E and Hannah B. So it's a chance to Give Geography its Place on the radio. I presume there won't be a late night on New Years Eve for the team though. A great Geographical start to the New Year!

GA Conference 2007 The Conference programme is now available to view via the GA WEBSITE. This looks interesting... Lots of other good workshops and lectures too. See you there ! Don't forget to vote for the G Team to edit Radio 4's TODAY programme either. Here's the pitch. BBC Radio Four ‘Today’ Programme - In Search of the G Spot David Lambert, Dan Raven-Ellison and Hannah Bosher We heard recently a prediction that the human race will need three planet Earths by the year 2050. This is impossible to contemplate. So we think we should focus more on the living space we have. Our editorial line will focus on the ‘space’ in which we live, places and what makes them special and on understanding our interconnected lives. We are going to seek out and stimulate the G spot of issues and stories. G is for geography, and we are going to use geography as our main editorial ‘lens’. We have an inter-generational editorial team of three geographers. The youngest member ...