Geography and all that Jazz

David Rayner has been busy again, and has produced a very useful new VIDEO 'CHANNEL' called GeoTube , which is hosted on a site called FLIGGO. This is not banned in schools (well, not yet anyway) It has a collection of useful videos, and this will grow over time.

Geography Matters... c/o GeoDave... One for the Open Evenings perhaps...

2 interesting snippets in the TES today: The first was on the back of the magazine. Dan Raven Ellison and David Rayner are doing a session at the TES Education 2007 event on Saturday the 29th of September. It's from 2pm-3pm and is called ' Geography Rocks Glastonbury ', referring to the 3 days that the GGiP campaign set up a stand in the Green Futures field at this year's festival. You can book your place for FREE by clicking HERE The second was news of a new Climate Change site (yes, yet another one ! ) This is called OPERATION CLIMATE CONTROL , and is based around a climate game. Haven't had a play yet, but will try to later...

While in Scotland recently, I bought this book (as well as the Islay book mentioned below). I particularly like it because it has the good taste to have a go at Chris Martin of Coldplay. Also last night on BBC Scotland, 2 river programmes were broadcast which were produced in consultation with Val Vannet and David Rayner. The programmes featured 2 contrasting rivers: the River Devon in Scotland and the River Cuckmere in the South East of England - they are shown below: Devon at the top and Cuckmere at the bottom... Teachers notes can be downloaded from the BBC Scotland site. Check them out if you're a teacher - they are fab programmes. Went out to a very good fireworks do last night: thanks to Gen and James. Got through several hundred pounds worth of fireworks, had a good bonfire which didn't burn down the fence as some people thought, and excellent food and gluhwein. The only downside was the horror that is Inspector Gadget's Field Trip.... Over the next few days, bonfir...