2 great videos made by Dave Holmes . The first is shot in London and provides some simple ideas for ethnographic fieldwork data collection.... "people watching"... The second is particularly helpful. It is a short video featuring Nick Blunsum: the Head of Geography at Kingsmead Community School What's great is that Nick talks about the impact of going through the process of gaining the Geographical Association's Secondary Geography Quality Mark. He talks about "evaluating what was good and developing areas that needed improvement" and also "giving back some of the control to students to stop the lessons being too teacher led..." - some good advice on controlled assessment too.... Thanks for sharing these Dave, and to @GeogAdviser for the tip off on Twitter....
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Outstanding in your field(work) The title of a session I'm leading for the Sheffield GA Branch at Meadowhead School, Sheffield tomorrow night. As part of the 'research' I've been browsing some hilarious YouTube videos made by students on their fieldtrips. Quite liked this one, particularly the end-credits, where all the students quite rightly refer to themselves as ' GEOGRAPHERS '.
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...