geographyalltheway.com updates and my ICT in Geography education ramblings!
Just for information really - I used to have a moodle installation on geographyalltheway.com. I have closed it down and have moved it to istgeography.net - my school geography department website.
I will hopefully be developing it’s content later in the academic year.
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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.
Last Week
Students have finished the What is Geography? unit and have started the Using Maps and Atlases unit by looking at Map Projections.
Students have covered biofuels and locating a wind farm - which uses a geographyalltheway.com worksheet with a GIS simulation produced by Ordnance Survey.
Students have continued to work positively through the Population Change section. They have looked at the Impact of HIV/AIDS and the Population vs Resources debate.
Students have finished the River Processes section and completed an IGCSE style assessment using past questions.
Students have been studying Population Distribution and Population Fertility.
Students have been looking at Contrasting Levels of Development by comparing the development of Norway and Niger. Then they started the Sustainable Development section.
Next Week
Students will cover Longitude and Latitude and hopefully progress onto Atlas Skills.
Students will prepare for ‘The Great Wind Farm Debate‘ - using the information provided by Talking Heads, Google Earth overlays and delicious bookmarks.
Students will study Population Policies.
Students will start the Marine Processes / Coast unit of the course by looking at Wave Processes and Coastal Landforms.
Students will finish the Population Fertility section by looking at Spatial Patterns and then start the Population Mortality section.
Students will be look at Sustainable Development at various scales - Local, National and International.
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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!
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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!
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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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Image taken from Alan Parkinson’s geoblogs Flickr account.
Nice to see elements of geographyalltheway.com being discussed. The Mystery Ghost Ship - a mystery activity based around the topic of migration, can be found here.
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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.
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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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The Chemical Brothers ran a competition to use Google Earth to produce a video for their latest single. Does this make geography cool?
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Resources for a 5 minute ICT input at Curriculum Leaders Meeting, International School of Toulouse, 16th September 2008.
What is it?
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Buttons and Toolbars
These are worth installing as they make your life much easier.
Tags
It is very important to tag the sites that you bookmark - the more tags the better.
Example website: BBC News: Huge split in child death rate
Tags: ib igcse population mortality news_feed
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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.
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