Geography and all that Jazz

"I've got the whole WORDLE in my hands..." Rob Chambers has been at it again, and launched a new blog looking at Cross Curricular uses of ICT One tool which has obvious use for this, but has plenty of geographical use, is Wordle , and Rob has provided a link to an excellent presentation on how to use this tool. This is well worth referring students to.... | View | Upload your own Show me what you manage to produce with WORDLE. ..

SAGT 2007 Picture by Val Vannet Just back from 2 days in Edinburgh for the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers ' conference. I was presenting an adapted version of the Royal Geographical Society presentation I blogged about HERE . Arrived by train, and up to my nice hotel , for which I got a good deal with "LastMinute.com". Very mild after the chill of Paris. Wandered over to the academy through the Royal Mile and down the cobbles. The conference was held at Edinburgh Academy. A good venue. Picture by Flickr User Dave Fitch John Vannet was setting up the Publishers. GA, RGS and GGiP amongst them. Also met up with "the boys from the OS" again and others... Then had a rather nice caprese Pizza and a bottle of Peroni with friends. Also down to Princes St. to have a bit of a shop and met up with Rob Chambers , who was also presenting a session. He had been due to present at 2006's conference too, but fell ill on a trip to Kenya and was unable to attend...

I did an hour (and a bit - I ran out of time as usual) session today at the Faculty of Education at Homerton College, part of the University of Cambridge. I was invited by Liz Taylor to speak to the ITT Mentors in a session to prepare for next year's cohort in the very nice new building that they have there. You can see a picture of the building here. I was delivering a session that had been prepared by Rob Chambers, and I then (skilfully) blended in a few other bits and pieces and also made use of John Barlow's excellent guide to setting up a weblog. If you were present and have found your way here , welcome ! Hope you enjoyed the introduction to terms such as "my favourite price" and "reclaiming your Sundays" As I said, all the handouts and features can be found on Rob's website which is named below: IGEOG . It was only after I'd finished that I found out that Rob normally has 2 hours to get through the material - no wonder I thought I rushed t...

VOKI Thanks to Rob Chambers for telling me about a fun new tool called VOKI . Here's my first go... Get a Voki now!

Rob Chambers Geography Directory 2007 This is a remarkable piece of work... Go to GEOBYTES , click on the DEPARTMENT link and then the GEOGRAPHY DIRECTORY link to download the PDF. Rob has also just started 2 new blogs to support his students. A2 students should check out the Advanced Extension blog for some great materials....