ICT in the Humanities and Geography Classroom
Alan Parkinson has described the look of geogalot – the new geographyalltheway.com updates blog as being “rather sexy” – which is nice.
He “like[s] the logo in particular” which came from this image which I took in the Pyrenees last summer:
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Year 7: What Geography? – http://tinyurl.com/6px76u
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I am trying to divide my ‘twits’. I have set up a Twitter account called ‘geogalot‘ which I intend to use purely for updates to geographyalltheway.com – a sort of updates microblog. I am keeping my ‘richardallaway‘ Twitter account for twits about me and what I am up to – this will still be geographical and technological – just not necessarily geographyalltheway.com related.
So – follow me!
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Updates made to geographyalltheway.com will be posted here. Stuff about me will be @richardallaway
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Printable World Maps – great site that I found the other day while looking for just a plain world map to colour in. On the website you can generate maps of the world (with countries coloured in if you wish). You can generate the images up to 6000 px wide – so the available image quality is high.
The example above is one I generated to show the nataionalities of the secondary students at the International School of Toulouse.
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As I work my way through geographyalltheway.com over the coming academic year one of my main aims is going to be to try and make the site easier to use for other people. I realise that sometimes I present resources in a way that I understand but may look odd to others!
One of the maim ways I plan to do this is break down webpages into Starter, Activities and Review. This will hopefully give lessons more structure and encourage me to produce more useful introduction and review/summary/revision tasks. I will be using the icons above to do this – anybody recognise them?
I have already started this process – an exmaple can be seen here: GCSE/ IGCSE Geography: Long Profiles and Valley Cross Sections.
As always – if you have any feedback on such things please get in contact either via comments here or via the ‘Contact me‘ button above.
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Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database. (Source)
There are various geography realted titles on Google’s digital database:
Geography: An Integrated Approach By David Waugh (Only a preview so it isn’t every page)
Planet Geography By Stephen Codrington – ‘the’ IB Geography Textbook
The Dictionary of Human Geography By Ronald John Johnston, Derek Gregory, Geraldine Pratt (Only a preview so it isn’t every page)
Understanding GCSE Geography By Ann Bowen, John Pallister (Only a preview so it isn’t every page)
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I do enjoy this time of year when I can get some jobs done on geographyalltheway.com – and the jobs haven’t necessarily got the urgency of lesson preparation. I therefore tend to work on some of the sites aesthetics.
I have added a search bar at the top of each page – just below the site banner and menu strip. Hopefully this will help people find content on geographyalltheway.com. Please let me know if you have any issues with it.
I have also re-added the peel script (from Doug’s site) to geographyalltheway.com to ‘adverise’ geogalot.
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