Again I’m a little late in getting this post sorted. I didn’t manage to write this post last week which was a little disappointment. Is was mainly due to me being rather tired and behind after an excellent weekend spent trekking in the Pyrenees – more about that here.
Students will prepare for ‘The Great Wind Farm Debate‘ – using the information provided by Talking Heads, Google Earth overlays and delicious bookmarks.
During Curriculum Extension activities today I had my group drawing with the Geography Departments GPS units. This was the best of the bunch – produced by a boy in Year 8 – which I thought was great!
I have been playing with my GPS and the school’s new GPS-USB cable, Google Earth and the GPS Visualizer website. The image above and the .kmz file below shows our descent from Refuge du Rulhe which I wrote about here. A mixture of outdoor adventure and gadgets – perfect!
The competition is open to everybody – the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.
It’s Tuesday and I’m still a little tired from an excellent weekend spent in the Pyrenees. I spent the weekend with 16 friends and colleagues from IST walking in the area around the Refuge du Rulhe (2185 metres). On Saturday we walked up to the refuge dumped any extra kit and then climbed Pic du Rulhe (2783 metres). After spending a fun night in the refuge we walked back to the valley via the Crête des Isards.
All the photos below are from my flickr account. A few more can be seen on flickr.
I hope to add a Google Earth file of the route over the next couple of days.
The competition is open to everybody – the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.
Resources for a 5 minute ICT input at Curriculum Leaders Meeting, International School of Toulouse, 16th September 2008.
What is it?
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. Because it is web-based you can easily share your bookmarks between the different computers that you may use.
You can then combine tags when searching. For example: my tags (geographyalltheway) ib+population+mortality
Tags are very powerful as you can also view RSS feeds from individual tags etc – just ask if you would like to know more about this.
Networks
Having a network allows you to share resources. When you tag a site you are also given the opportunity to tag that site for a member of your network. Members of the IST staff with delicious accounts include:
I continued to develop the Energy Resources unit as I teach it. A big thank you to Kathleen Noreisch who sent me some resources based on ‘peak oil‘ after reading last weeks blog post. The lesson went really well. The resources can be found here – Running Out?.
Second week of the Induction Programme saw the students hand in their detailed disease case studies and start work on their presentations. They were also informed that they would complete an exam question to finish off the Induction Unit.
The Energy Resource continues to develop as I teach the unit. This week the students will look at managing energy demand using Electocity and then look at Biofuels, focusing on the what are they and how they generate press attention.
Will finish the Induction Unit by giving presentations and completing an exam question. Peer assessment will be used with the presentations using Google Forms as a way of collating feedback. We will then start the course proper – looking at Population Distribution to start with.
