Geography and all that Jazz

Georgie is a gorilla on a mission: a MISSION : EXPLORE LONDON mission... Georgie is going to be in London this Saturday: the 16th of January and wants to carry out some special missions... For more information see: GEORGIE NEEDS A MISSION on Mission Explore website... Why not suggest a task for GEORGIE ?? You can send via TWITTER with the tag #GMission or #Gorillamission If you add a comment here with a mission I'll make sure they get passed on too...

It's been a while since we had a bit of jazz.... A very brief taster... Got tickets for the Barbican in February... Very excited to see how this turns out...

Image by Alan Parkinson For those who haven't heard (or are even remotely interested) I finally decided just after Christmas that what I really needed in my life was an iPhone. I opted for a 16Gb 3GS version in glossy white. There are many reasons why I finally succumbed to the ever-so-shiny phone. One of my thoughts was that I had seen geography colleagues using it in interesting ways in the classroom, and outside the classroom (the latter perhaps more than the former) and needed to investigate these by actually using them ... and then reporting on them... There were already some useful posts on the use of iPhones which have been building up over the last year or so since the 3G version of the phone was introduced. Teachers using iPhones Noel Jenkins posted an interesting thought on his DIGITAL GEOGRAPHY blog giving his thoughts - he hadn't got an iPhone at the time, but has now. He has put it to good use with his QR CODE FIELDWORK work: WELLINGTON STORIES. Had the pleasur...