Gone to Glastonbury.... Updates via Twitter @GeoBlogs until Monday :) Picture by chelsea steve on Flickr - CC licensed
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Some tickets arrived this morning... Now very excited.. See you in the Green Kids field for some Guerilla Geography... I will be writing up a series of posts about the experience, and also producing some links and resources to supplement existing ideas relating to music festivals... Just a reminder of the nice things people are saying about our Mission Explore book. .. "Mission:Explore is a brilliant way to stimulate children's and young people's interest in their social and physical environment, their curiosity and their sense of the absurd. The case for risk as a necessary and exciting part of life, that needs handling intelligently, is acknowledged well. This is geography, and fieldwork, at its most creative, and has the potential to inspire a new generation of thoughtful, ethical and courageous geographers." Susan Buckingham, Professor of Geography “it is very important for children to experience adventurous play and risk so they can learn to manage risk and keep...
It was over to Nottingham today for a meeting of representatives from many of the Subject Associations at the new headquarters of NAACE . For those who don't know, NAACE is the ICT Association, and is the professional association for those concerned with advancing education through the appropriate use of ICT. It also has a key role in the ICT Mark for schools. Quite a few familiar faces from work that I did last year to produce a booklet for the teaching of Functional Skills - you can download if from HERE by the way - it's great ! NAACE have also produced a range of FREE CPD courses which although they might sound like they are just for ICT teachers, would probably be of value to geography teachers too. They can be found by following this link: ICT CPD 4 FREE Met Peter Twining from VITAL , who offer a range of CPD options too. Their website describes Vital as: a professional development programme that aims to revitalise the teaching of IT and the use of ICT across the br...
I'm getting excited about my first visit to Glastonbury, to do missions with MISSION EXPLORE and members of the Geography Collective... To get me in the mood, I've downloaded the wonderful MISSION EXPLORE festival guide from the wonderful GEOGRAPHY COLLECTIVE BLOG page... Come and see us in the Green Kids Field... I hope we won't be needing those... Going to be working on some resources on music festivals of course too.... All images on this post by the wonderful Tom Morgan-Jones
