Tag Archive for 'ICT in Geography Education'

The Wonderful World of Widgets

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Richard Allaway
on September 12, 2008
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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:

geographyalltheway's Bookmarks on Delicious
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

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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Crossword Generator - EclipseCrossword

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Richard Allaway
on September 5, 2008
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Another thing that I have meant to have posted about for a while - is EclipseCrossword.com.

Download a small program (Windows only) and run it to produce crosswords that can be printed off or added to webpages as interactive content.  The adding to webpages isn’t as easy as a simple embed but people who are relatively happy messing around with html shouldn’t have a problem.

I have used it several times on geographyalltheway.com and will be using it much more to produce plenaries and revision material.

Some examples can be seen by following the links below:

Key Stage 3: Rocks and Landscapes: Mountain Landscapes

Key Stage 3: Rocks and Landscapes: Limestone Landscapes

Key Stage 3: Rocks and Landscapes: Caves and Caving

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Possible Desktop Image for Geography Classrooms

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Richard Allaway
on September 3, 2008
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I have had the image above bookmarked for a while - just thought I’d share.

I think it would make a good desktop image for anybody using an interactive whiteboard in their classroom - just a suggestion!

A larger version can be found here.

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ning news - Who is going to be …

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Richard Allaway
on September 2, 2008
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… the 100th member of geographyalltheway.com’s ning?

geographyalltheway.com ning
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I think there should be a geographyalltheway.com pen in the post for the 100th member!

geographyalltheway.com Pen

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Panoye - Upload and publish panoramas

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Richard Allaway
on June 25, 2008
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Panoye is a bit of a cross between flickr and YouTube - in a way.

It allows you to upload panoramic images that you have taken and then embed them like a video/viewer into a blog or website.

I’m currently enjoying messing around with panoramic images using focus lock on ly digital camera and then using Abobe Photoshop Elements for Mac to stitch the images together. You can see one of my recent efforts above and another here.

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geographyalltheway.com Updates > geogalot

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Richard Allaway
on June 25, 2008
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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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