ICT in the Humanities and Geography Classroom
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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I have had a short article about using Twitter and your Personal Learning Network (PLN) published in the most recent edition of IB World. You can read the article below – it’s only short, what I submitted was a little longer, but it great to see Twitter and PLNs being mentioned in more traditional media.
Want to develop your peer support network? It’s time to tweet, says Richard Allaway, a humanities teacher at the International School of Geneva, Switzerland. Richard has been teaching geography for eight years and since 2008 he’s been keeping in touch with geographers around the world using online messaging service Twitter.
“Working in a small department in an international school, opportunities for face-to-face professional development can be difficult to access due to the distances involved, the time commitment and the cost.
I was first introduced to Twitter (www.twitter.com) through mentions in blogs I read produced by fellow geographers and people involved in education technology. Everyone’s talking about it at the moment. It’s got around six million registered users, so it’s hard to miss. Users send and read ‘tweets’ – text-based updates that are limited to 140 characters and therefore very focused.
Once you’ve joined, you can build up a network by ‘following’ other users. My Personal Learning Network (PLN) is global, including clusters in Europe, North America and South-East Asia. It includes other geography teachers and educators, people who tweet about topics that interest me and that I am involved in through my teaching.
I tweet to share links to good-quality resources, or something that’s worked well in my classroom that day. I often let people know of any updates I’ve made to my website. Sometimes I tweet for help – a plea for a fresh idea or a link to something I know is out there but just can’t find. I will start teaching the new Diploma Programme geography syllabus this year and I know Twitter will be a definite help.
To find other IB teachers and let them find you, there’s a wiki site where you can enter your details at ib-teachers-using-twitter.wikispaces.com. Any questions, just send me a tweet – my username is @richardallaway.”
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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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In the refuge before the evening meal.
iPhone image.
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At 2020m at a refuge and still getting a strong phone signal! Just testing posting a screen print, from Maps on my iPhone, to geogalot, via Tumblr.
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So … Community Week. A week of outdoor experiences with Year 8 students in Chamonix.
Poor/ difficult wifi for my laptop but good 3G signal for phone. I have put photos from my ‘proper’ camera onto the laptop and synced to my iPhone. I can therefore post ‘better’ photos here.
Photo shows Mt Blanc through the cloud from the rock climbing site. Weather forecast for the next couple of days is damp!
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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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I have added a new resource to the MYP Demography > 7 Billion Soon? unit. It is a redevelop of existing resources on geographyalltheway.com. One reason for the redevelopment is to make the lesson easier to run with just a computer/projector and students working with paper/exercise books.
The ‘The Global Population‘ lesson can be found here.
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Are you a ‘networked teacher’? Would like to become more ‘networked’? Would you like more ideas about using ICT both in the classroom and in your own preparation and organisation?
I am leading a course in central London on Saturday 10th October titled ‘ICT for Humanities’. The outline of the workshop is included below – go to the InThinking website to sign up.
Objectives
Agenda
Session 1
30 ICT Ideas in 30 Minutes and Using ICT to Share. Starting with a ‘30 ICT ideas in 30 minutes’ presentation to give an overview of opportunities available leading onto a ‘Using ICT to Share’ workshop focusing upon social bookmarking and using online services such as Twitter, Slideshare and YouTube to share resources with your students and fellow educators.
Session 2
Online Tools to Make your Life Easier. A workshop session looking at Google Documents and Spreadsheets, Google Forms and online mind mapping among other online tools. The focus of this workshop is using these online services and tools effectively for teaching and learning in a Humanities classroom.
Session 3
Blogs, Wikis and RSS Feeds. A workshop session looking at the use of teacher and student created blogs and wikis. We will also cover the value of RSS feeds as a source of subject-based and ‘edtech’ information.
Session 4
Google Earth isn’t just for Geographers! Workshop focused on making the most of existing geographical and historical visualization resources in Google Earth and Google Maps. What resources are available and how best could they be used?
Networked Teacher Image Source
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Need an excuse for a weekend in London? ICT for Humanities One Day Workshop – Sat. 10th Oct. 2009. Sign up here http://bit.ly/10psaH Pls RT
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