A little additional Where in the World? Where has this geographyalltheway.com pen been on its travels?
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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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Over the last week I have been playing with widgetbox.com.
Widgetbox is a service that enables people to “find, make and distribute web widgets for blogging, social networking services, and personal websites”. I have been doing some very simple things by turning RSS feeds into widgets. The reason to make widgets is to make content easier to access for my students and virtual colleagues.
Here is an example taking the feed from this site:
The more ’serious’ ones I have done are for my IB Geography and IGCSE Geography students. I have created feeds of recent, relevant news stories. The widgets can be seen on the following pages of this blog: IB Geography Widgets and IGCSE Geography Widgets - which can be accessed by clicking on the tabs at the top of the page.
They have been created by taking feeds from my delicious tags:
The widgets can be embedded into blogs, webpages, iGoogle pages, myspace, facebook etc - which means they can be very accessible for students.
Here is a final (for today) widget that took just 90 seconds to produce - you should recognise it - it’s the feed from Alan’s Living Geography blog:
If you have any questions about these - or you would like me to create a widget for you - just ask via the comments box.
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I am trialing a new way of entering the Where in the World? competition using Google Forms.
Previously I was using jotform but I was having some issues with it being blocked by school firewalls etc.
Please test it for me! Does anybody have issues entering the Where in the World? competition from school?
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… the 100th member of geographyalltheway.com’s ning?
I think there should be a geographyalltheway.com pen in the post for the 100th member!
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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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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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It’s always nice to find mentions of or links to geographyalltheway.com.
Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) lists geographyalltheway.com as one of their ‘Useful IGCSE Geography Websites‘.
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I have deleted geographyalltheway.com Updates :-(. It had been hacked and was producing some sort of spam. This meant that google dropped geographyalltheway.com from it’s searches etc and all was not well.
So …
Time for a fresh start and therefore geogalot. The name ‘geogalot’ was thought up by one of my past IB Geography students and had been used on a previous forum project but has now found it’s natural home here.
geogalot will be a home for updates to geographyalltheway.com and my rambings about and expereinces of using ICT in Geography Education.
Update your RSS feeds, get commenting and enjoy.
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