2020 - International Geography Teacher Webinar
An online meeting of like-minded international geography educators - planned to be held every three weeks.
#4 Monday 8th + Tuesday 9th June 2020
8pm CEST [Apéro time]
France, UK, Germany, Canada, Poland, Austria, Saudi Arabia.
11am CEST [Coffee time]
France, Qatar, Switzerland, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Singapore.
Links
- I am starting 2.1 Causes of global climate change with my DP1 students and therefore those lessons are getting a refresh.
- podcasts.geographyalltheway.com now has a Geophysical hazards section.
- The 'gatw Summer Menu' is in development [now completed!] as a set of suggestions for students 'who want to do more' during the summer break. It is focused on students between DP1 and DP2 but could also work for students about to start the course. Make sure you keep an eye on the 'Updates Blog' (which also posts to Facebook) and Twitter for when it is ready.
- Getting more ‘geography’ into your student’s lives via 'stealth'...
- Netflix
- Getting more ‘geography’ into your student’s lives via 'stealth'...
- Matt's IGCSE Upskilling lessons.
- CAS Blog - Environment Group - Promotion of Geography through student blogging / assemblies / extra curricular activities - IST Environment Group
#3 Monday 18th + Tuesday 19th May 2020
8pm CEST [Apéro time]
France, Switzerland, Guernsey, UK, Brazil, Poland and Canada.
11am CEST [Coffee time]
France, Qatar, UK, North Cyprus, Hong Kong, Singapore, Netherlands, Philippines, Cambodia, Norway, Switzerland, Ghana, India, Poland and Kazakhastan.
Links
- The #ibgeog Podcasts online and smartphone app now includes the Urban geographic theme. A big thank you to Jonathan Butcher for sharing his list of podcasts.
- The app now also works on tablets and desktops.
- If anybody would like to work with me to add one of the other geographic themes - please get in touch!
- I am working with my DP1 students to make Quizlets, as they prepare for their exams. The quizes we have produced can be found here and will be added to over the next couple of days.
- I have produced a revision lesson on infographics - beyond the infographics resources page.
- Some rather beautiful population density maps produced by Alasdair Rae.
- → made me think (again) of The Pudding - Human Terrain.
Alaric Maude (2020): The role of geography’s concepts and powerful knowledge in a future 3 curriculum, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Richard Bustin (2011), The living city: Thirdspace and the contemporary geography curriculum, Geography
New Geographies : New Curriculum PC (Post Coronavirus) School Geographies - A provocation & some curriculum making v4.0
Wired - Amid a Pandemic, Geography Returns With a Vengeance [14 April 2020]
#2 Monday 27th April 2020
11am CEST [Coffee time]
France, Poland, Philippines, Vietnam, Australia, Singapore, India, Qatar, Belgium, UK, Hong Kong and Kazakhstan.
8pm CEST [Apéro time]
France, Costa Rica, UK, Canada, Switzerland, Brazil, New Zealand, Poland, Italy, Norway, Abu Dhabi, Belgium, Germany and Ghana.
Links
- Remote learning with geographyalltheway.com - where I am collecting together the geographyalltheway pages that I have restructured for the purpose of 'home learning'.
- Flipboard magazines - a great way to curate digital articles and videos. There are already magazines set up for all the sections of the IB DP Geography course with a range of geography teachers contributing to them.
- Kialo-Edu is a 'unique tool for teaching critical thinking'. Here is an example of a series of three geographyalltheway.com lessons which focus on the use of Kialo-Edu.
Kialo Edu is a custom version of Kialo (kialo.com), the world's largest argument mapping and debate site, specifically designed for classroom use. Its clear, visually compelling format makes it easy to follow the logical structure of a discussion and facilitates thoughtful collaboration. Kialo’s mission is to promote well-reasoned discussion online, and to that end, Kialo is free for educators to use.
- The geographyalltheway.com IB DP Geography Infographics page [free access] which includes sources of infographics, articles about the production of infographics, help with 'visual vocabulary', useful infograèhics by unit and some exam style questions.
- Matt's resources - who is working on developing his Leisure, Tourism and Sport resources
- BBC - Stacey Dooley Investigates - Thailand [Gemma]
- Harkness debates [Jim]
- equitymaps.com [Dorian]
- Mark Enser's 'Teach Like Nobody's Watching' [Dorian]
#1 Monday 6th April 2020
11am CEST [Coffee time]
France, Switzerland, Laos, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Qatar, Norway, Germany, UK, Thailand, Australia, India
8pm CEST [Apéro time]
France, Poland, Brazil, Italy, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Ghana, New Zealand, UK
Links
- The gatw Spring Break Menu - a list of activities for DP1 students as they 'enjoy' there Spring Break 'lockdown' staycation! Highlights include:
- ibgeog Podcasts app - 100+ categorised podcast episodes.
- Pre-reading suggestions for ageing population and climate change.
- Netflix series ROTTEN.
- information is beautiful - one of the first organisations to be producing infographics. Check out:
- Remote teaching and podcasts - with the closure of schools, the 'changing goal posts' of cancelled examinations and the desire to reduce student's screen time I have put together some podcast based lesson ideas.
- Remote learning with geographyalltheway.com - As I teach my lessons remotely I am adding more prompts and structure to each page to ensure productive student outcomes.
- IB DP Geography Extended Essay geographyalltheway.com resources.
- Unequal Scenes - amazing, thought provoking aerial imagery. MYP lesson using them > fc.04 Exploring inequalities within cities using Google Earth on web.
- Podcasting the rest of the G12/Y13 IB DP course - Document that was given to students to finish off outstanding parts of the course after exam cancellation. [Matt]
- Podcasting the rest of the G10/Y11 IGCSE course - Document that was given to students to finish off outstanding parts of the course after exam cancellation. [Matt]
- Preparing G10/Y11 for IB DP. Thanks to Paul Goodson in Brazil for this 6 week plan of activities.
- Analogue Geography Distance Learning Tasks - Thanks to Alan Parkinson. [Matt]
- Dollar Street - Global change - Core. [Matt]
- Dinosaur Earth - Great fun - Continental Drift meets Google Earth. Check out the 'Enter a city name' tab left hand corner. [Matt]
- Visual Capitalist - Excellent range of all things Geography presented in some outstanding infographic type formats. [Matt]
- BBC The Inquiry - Why don't we care about facts? - Excellent 22 minute podcast with clear links to current Covid-19 pandemic and TOK. [Matt]
- BBC World Service - The Compass podcast [Gemma]
- The many books of Tim Marshall [various people]
- Space and Place in J. Agnew and D. Livingstone (eds.) Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. London: Sage, 2011 [David]
- Social Simulations by Centre for Systems Solutions [Jim]
- Future Learn - The IB Extended Essay: Managing your Research Project [Britta]
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