Just browsing Tom Biebrach's Pencoed Geography site, and came across this little Earthquake widget which you can get by clicking the link through to myeqwatch: Earthquake Watch.
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Geography and Electricity General Electric: an American energy company have a nice site called GEOTERRA which is aimed at exploring ideas of renewable energy by providing a series of FLASH games on an island, which explores issues to do with energy conservation such as blasting air at windmills and steering trains around a route. Geography and Chocolate Certainly eaten a lot of it in the last 10 days or so... Charlie and Lola are a favourite of my kids. Was just browsing Amazon for some sales bargains, and found this new book, which is due to be published in February 2007, when it will cost £2.99 - you can pre-order now. Could be a good resource to use as a prize for younger geography students. Why not order several copies at that price... The book is to raise funds for COMIC RELIEF . There is going to be a RED NOSE DAY on the of March 2007, and the site is already up. You can download a set of excellent Interactive Whiteboard resources: 5 FLASH files which would make great sta...
I look like a celebrity... Get me out of here ! Thanks to Tony Cassidy for putting me on to this interesting little website tool. Check out Tony's look-a-likes then mine... Worrying that Rupert Murdoch is 75 years old ! Who do you look like ? The one I'm really pleased about is Svante Arrhenius He sort of 'discovered' the greenhouse effect, so big up to Svante. Which reminds me that one of the highlights of my Christmas Day was watching " Ice Age 2 : the Meltdown" - loved the sequence with the Sid Cult...
RSS FEED now available One of my Christmas projects has now been completed! You can now subscribe to an RSS FEED for this weblog. There will be an icon on the right hand side of the screen... There will now be a short Christmas intermission.... Cheers! ...and thanks to Victoria for the very nice home made card. Merry Christmas !
Time Magazine's Person of the Year . This year, the winner is.... ME! And anyone else who has used the Internet to create and share content... Congratulations to us all. Read the story HERE. Also, don't forget to set your alarm clock for 6.30am on New Years Day Gift of a Goat Monday 1 January 2007 6:30-7:00 (Radio 4 FM) Ethical gifts of goats to help poor African families have become a popular Christmas present. But what happens to the animals and the people who receive them? Hermione Cockburn visits Uganda to see a goat scheme in action. She investigates the challenges of keeping the animals healthy and well looked after and discovers just what it takes to ensure that new goats help rural communities struggling to find a way out of poverty. and then stay tuned for TODAY, from 7am - 9am, presented by the G Team. Visited the website just now and discovered the Museum of London's rather nice "My London" Emotional Map of the capital. Why not check out ...
SlideShare Slide Share is a website which allows the sharing (natch) of Powerpoint presentation slides. They can then be viewed and embedded into websites and blogs (as you can see below...) The slide show above was shared by staff at BUSHLOE High School . Also good to see a few more SLN regulars getting the blogging habit. More on this shortly...
Christmas Cards Did you know that on average we receive (and possibly throw away) 17 cards each on average - that's over 100 million cards. The Woodland Trust offer a recycling scheme, and there are posters that you can download for use in your school. I always arrange a collection in the Geography Department and then take several thousand of them in one go to Tesco to reduce the carbon footprint of the school (allegedly) Why not organise a local collection, and perhaps publicise it ? Also came across the Christmas Song Generator from Generator Blog So here it is, merry Christmas, Everybody's having fun. Look to the geography now, It's only just begun. Merry Christmas from the Christmas Song Generator . Get your own song :
Geography Cup in the News Dan Raven Ellison and the Geography Cup are in the News... The competition, which runs until New Year's Eve has been featured in a YAHOO news article. Nice one! BETT Article published My latest piece of journalism: an article for the Educ@Guardian's BETT Supplement was published this Tuesday. Have been waiting for an online version to link you to, and they are now online. HERE is the general page for the supplement. And HERE is my humble contribution, which begins below: Bring maps to life and save the world Treasure hunts, electronic mapping, sustainable development, and exploring Britain through panoramas Alan Parkinson Tuesday December 12, 2006 Guardian Geography is a subject looking to the future, giving students skills to interpret the world of tomorrow. Geographical information - its collection, analysis and presentation - is another strong theme as schools are encouraged to use the best technology. Famous for 15 seconds again... More good new...
KFC St Petersburg
KFC St Petersburg Originally uploaded by annesImages . Test posting from FLICKR Group: Geography Teacher Resources Image from annesimages
"Oh what a night ! Late December back in '63..." Of course Frankie Vallie wasn't referring to the main event: I was born then... He wasn't referring to the inclement winter weather either. The winter of 1963/4 was the coldest and winteriest ever! Now this has been celebrated in a new book written by Ian McCaskill and Paul Hudson , and with a nice tagline "when winters really were winters". It looks at the winters of 1947, 1963 and 1979, which were particularly hard winters. Some great images and details. This book would make a perfect gift for the Geographer in your life. Hint ! A good SCOTSMAN interview here.
Are you a Collaborator or an Isolator ? Click the image above to get a larger view. Now read the description - which are you most like ? I can confidently identify myself as a collaborator. This could also be shown on a continuum with the two types at either end. If you're an isolator at the moment, what could you do to become an isolator ? Why not begin by starting a blog of your own! Thanks to Quentin d'Souza for the use of his diagram which he posted on TEACHING HACKS. Let's all aim to be more collaborative!
I have been following the current journey of artist OLIVIER KUGLER which is being printed in The Guardian. He is one of my favourite illustrators - his work has a great 'sense of place', and he has the knack of identifying the key aspects of a location, or a person that he has interviewed. His travel journal is great. He has an online portfolio from which I've borrowed the image below (which I will, of course, remove if there is a problem...) This gives you an idea of the style of the work, and there is an illustrated biography HERE . Check out his work.
All change The Geography and all that Jazz Blog has moved to BETA BLOGGER. Been an interesting week as I made contact with some developers who are buiding a Millennium Community in South Lynn, King's Lynn Do you recognise this place ? ( Image copyright Morston Assets ) On the way into work today, I was queueing as usual by the White Horse in Gaywood waiting for the lights and the poster board by the River Lane Fish Bar contained a large advert for YOURS SOUTH LYNN, offering the chance to "Move in for just £99" and houses from £99,950. It refers to a new community I mentioned in my previous post (scroll down to read it) Click the image below to be taken to the website shown... Website images copyright Yours South Lynn The night before I'd attended a public meeting at Hunstanton Town Hall, where I was one of just 3 people to turn up on a blustery night to hear about the new Millennium Community which I posted about a few days ago. I chatted to Tom Harrison, Chief Execu...
Just been writing an article for the new e-magazine which is going to be launched in January 2007 called "The Global Geographer", and I've found myself referring back frequently to the work of an American author called Barry Lopez . I've been following his work for well over 20 years ! He is most famous for a book called "Arctic Dreams". In a book called "Crossing Open Ground", in a piece called "Landscape and Narrative" he talks about the idea of MY PLACE, and ends "the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes" His most recent project is one called HOME GROUND . I've also found an article which I clipped out when it was published by another great author I mention: Robert MacFarlane, who produced a piece for the Guardian on Barry Lopez. It ends with this paragraph: Global warming is now depleting Arctic summer sea ice at a rate of 10% per annum. A plausible consequence of this depletion is that pol...