Monthly Archive for March, 2009

International Schools IT Conference – British School of Brussels

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I will be presenting two workshops at the International Schools IT Conference at the British School of Brussels on Friday 5th – Saturday 7th June 2009.  The details of the workshops can be seen below (taken from the Conference Programme).

Interactive Geography Teaching   NEW

Sessions led by: Richard Allaway.
Ideal for all Geography High School Teachers

Session 1: 0900 – 1230
Making a Geographer’s Life Easier with ICT > Sharing, Online Tools, Blogs and Wikis.
This session will begin with “30 ICT ideas in 30 minutes” and then develop into an exploration of the three main themes – Sharing, Online Tools and Blogs and Wikis.  This will be a hands-on session where participants can try tools out, set accounts up and evaluate the many online opportunities through various geographic situations.

Participants will look at social bookmarking, RSS feeds, YouTube, Google’s suite of applications, blogs, wikis, nings and various other online tools.  Enabling them to see how these can be incorporated into their teaching and personal planning and preparation.

Session 2:  1330 – 1700
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) on the Cheap

GIS are information systems that are designed for storing, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying data referenced by geographic coordinates.  In other words, it’s all about adding value to maps.   At its most simple this could be information on sheets of tracing paper put on top of a base map.  At its most expensive this can involve software packages that are complicated and focused upon a single country. This session will explore online GIS opportunities including the effective use of Google Earth in the classroom.   This is an important skill set for Geography teachers, as GIS becomes a compulsory element for some exam boards.  Participants will explore existing online GIS resources as well as having opportunities to develop their own.

All the documentation is below:

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Where in the World? Week 114

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Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image enter the competition!

The competition is open to everybody – the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.

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Know your Human Rights > Video used at Global Issues Conference

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Richard Allaway
on March 27, 2009
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Accessing the value of facebook

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Richard Allaway
on March 25, 2009
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Just trying to work a few things out in terms of the potential of facebook as a way of sharing best practice, resources etc – connecting with both teachers/educators and students – so please become a fan of geographyalltheway.com.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/geographyallthewaycom/19441294960

Is a ‘page’ better than a ‘group’?

Please promote the geographyalltheway.com facebook page with your students.

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Where in the World? Week 113

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on March 23, 2009
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Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image enter the competition!

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Using Twitter > Linking a Conference and School

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on March 22, 2009
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United Nations

I was luck enough to attend the Global Issues Network Conference in Geneva, Switzerland – that ran from Thursday 19th March to Saturday 21st March.  We took 4 students from the International School of Toulouse this year as a sort of recce – hoping to take more next year.

To keep a link between students at the conference and those back in Toulouse and to raise awareness of the project in school – we ‘Twittered’.  By twittering with a certain hashtag – in this case #gin09 – then by using twitter search you can produce a RSS feed for all tweets including that hashtag.  Simply stick the RSS feed into a widget from Widgetbox and add the widget to the homepage of the school intranet – you have a automatically updating link!


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#gin09 The enterance door to o…

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#gin09 The enterance door to our accommodation! http://twitpic.com/28mw8

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Where in the World? Week 112

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on March 16, 2009
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Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image enter the competition!

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Where in the World? Week 111

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on March 9, 2009
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Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image enter the competition!

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Global Issues Conference Geneva 2009 > Anybody Going?

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I was just wondering if any Geographers were going to the Global Issues Network Geneva Conference 19-21 March 2009.  It would be great to have a coffee with some fellow Geography teachers – get in touch and we will arrange a time and a place.

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