Geography and all that Jazz

The three programmes that I recently consulted on for Teachers TV were added to the website on Friday... There are 3 programmes in the series. Each was developed by Beth Newell and colleagues at Brook Lapping from original ideas which we discussed in an Italian cafe in Cambridge last year... Each programmes last for 15 minutes The first one: Today's Forecast, follows a line across the country from east to west and interviews a number of people whose jobs are dependent on the weather... The second: The Great Storm tells the story of the 1987 Great Storm, but from the perspective of the storm itself... The third: Degrees of Change is based on a specially commissioned poem by Mark Cowan and explores the possible impacts of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 degrees of warming in the future... I'd love any feedback if you watch them, and particularly if you use them in the classroom....

If you haven't already watched this programme on Teachers TV , then you really need to. And if you haven't already bought a FLIP (or similar) video then you really need to.... Paul Cornish, of the excellent GEOGRAPHER website helps a colleague from a different school to explore the use of video in the classroom . This is a wonderful resource, which includes a range of ideas for using video in the classroom, and certainly went beyond how I used it: an excellent "living" climate graph example... It led me to a new tip which I hadn't been aware of before, which provides a particularly neat method for embedding "live" YOUTUBE (or other TUBE) videos into powerpoint. Of course, this requires the videos to be hosted on a site which is accessible in school, which may be an issue for some colleagues. You need to have a live internet connection for this to work. I used a video from YouTube with very straightforward instructions (and then recursively used that sa...

Tomorrow's Teacher is a competition being run by TEACHERS TV. Thanks to Twitter follower/ee Dan Sutch for the details on this. There's a TEACHER competition and a CLASS competition. A chance to win some cash for your thoughts on the future of education...

Tune in to Teachers TV at 7am, 4pm or 8pm tomorrow for a programme which features Head of Geography and Chartered Geographer Sally Sumner talking about blogging, and inputs on other collaborative online tools from Tom Barrett. Will be well worth watching... Will also be available to download once the programme has been broadcast...

Geography and GGiP Made the papers today (no, it wasn't the Court Report...) Page 2 of the Lynn News, my local paper, has a report with the headline "KES teacher joins national campaign". It's about the Give Geography its Place campaign, and has some good quotes: "Geography is essential for an understanding of the world we live in today, and the one we are going to inhabit in the future..." To find out more visit http://www.passion4geography.co.uk The article is HERE If you're a teacher or a student, sign the petition! If you're a parent, sign the petition ! Get involved, and Give Geography its Place in the media. Notice how I selflessly left out mentions of GeographyPages (this time anyway...) Also the Teachers TV programme I was the consultant on is now featured on the Teachers TV website. Check out TOP 10 on the Web for Geography. There's one notable absence of course...