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http://www.geographypages.co.uk
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Contents / Aims / Objectives / Menu• Living Geography• What can the GA do for you ?• Developing your PLN• “My Favourite Price”• “I’ll show you mine...”•NOW YOU SHOW ME YOURS !
Student Experiences
Geography: the subjectTeacher Choices
Underpinned by Key Concepts
Thinking Geographically
Which learning activity ?
Does this take the learner beyond what they already know ?
Living GeographyLiving Geography
Living Geography:
• embraces young people’s geography and experiences• is current and future oriented• is local but set in wider (global) contexts• raises questions of change, sustainability and development
With thanks to Joe Dalehttp://joedale.typepad.com(MFL – embrace cross-curricular !!)
Have you been using the Action Plan for Geography materials ?
YES NO
Please join the NEW GA Networkhttp://geographical.ning.com
Please [email protected] with
your school details
The Food Crisis• I am writing a unit for the Training and Development Agency• This will eventually be available as an ONLINE CPD unit• It explores the issue of FOOD SECURITY.• Would you like to be involved in trialling them ??
BECTa ICT KS4 ProjectNow ‘live’ on GA website and well
worth plundering !http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/ks4ict/projectideas
New GCSEsComparison on GA website
Join the debate on the GA Ning
GA Conference (SPC)“Transforming Tired Topics”
“Textbooks: everyone’s guilty pleasure”“Doorstep geography”“Food Crisis workshop”
Young Peoples Geographies
Journals – online for download
Clay Shirky
“the best tool ever invented for improving communication is
the table...”
“Social networking”
“Social networking”
Professional networking
The Networked teacher....Then and Now (Alec Couros)
PLUG YOURSELF IN….
Twitter“What are you doing...?”
140 character limit
Twitpic by @stephenfry
Every teacher should also be a learner.
The “Social Web” makes this possible at a time and a place to suit
everybody.This is where your PLN comes in...
BloggingGeo Blogs (2003)Living Geography
Geography and all that JazzCultural Geography
“Look at it this Way”Google Earth Users GuideNew Edexcel Geography
http://ks3geography.ning.com
Over 450 members
http://geographical.ning.com
Over 340 membersAlso a dedicated network for
PGCE / NQT / GTP
Flickr User: ToniVC
My Favourite Price
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html
“the only way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas...”
Winston Churchill
In pairs or threes... (3 minutes)
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http://animoto.com
Yorkshire Floods – Summer 2007
http://wordle.netBeautiful tag clouds
Facebook – Chris Evetts
Oliver, no fan of political correctness, has hit back at reports he's been banned from the British town Rotherham – filming location for the celebrity chef's Ministry of Food.Talk of a ban surfaced when residents of Rotherham accused Oliver of portraying them as "dumbos" and "numpties".Oliver says the ban is "bollocks" and that he's been targeted by a minority of locals who see his show as an Oliver "vanity project" rather than a genuine campaign to help people whose diets are so appalling that they're eating themselves to death.A Rotherham local, former chef Alan Dale, says: "My message to Jamie is to stay away. Feelings are running high because he has made us look like complete idiots."
Flickr: Artzy.viva
Flickr Toys• Picture Collages• Trading Cards• Photo Mosaics• CD covers• Motivator poster• Magazine covers• Movie posters• Picture frames• Captions...
Doorknob preparation...
• Hand up who’s “winged” a lesson recently ?
• Did it go well ?
• If so, why ?• If not, why not ?
“I’ll show you mine.....”
Simon Renshaw: Google Maps
Whose journeys ?
Palin: a ‘geographer’ ?http://www.palinstravels.co.uk
SLN Geography
Flip Video
Knock KnockWho’s there ?
A DOCTOR ?
A MATHS TEACHER ?
A BALLET DANCER ?
A SHEEP SHEARER ?
A GEOGRAPHY TEACHER ?
Is Dartford Town Centre - a Dead Heart?
DME January 2009
Town Centre Map
Dartford Town CentrePhotos by G Simmons
Ring Road
Station
High Street
Hythe Street
Lowfield Street Regeneration Area
Prospect Place Retail Park
Priory shopping mall
Orchard Shopping mall
Gala Bingo in the High St
Dartford Town CentrePhotos by G Simmons
This site used to be Dartford’s cinema
Derelict Land in the High St
Dartford Town CentrePhotos by G Simmons
This site has been empty since 2007
City centre ‘health’ spectrumMove the text boxes into the correct place on the health spectrum
Very vibrant
Fairly vibrant
Completely dead heart
Fairly dead
Credit Crunch G£ography
Winners and Losers & Geo-connections
Flickr user: nataliej
What connections are there with geography ?
• Higher energy costs• Changing retail landscape• Less disposable income• Price-cutting and bargain-hunting• Austerity • De-multipliers starting off...• Higher unemployment• Impact on global warming ?
AssessmentWhat can you explain in a
text message ?
A YPG curriculum will: – be planned through dialogue: between teachers, young people, teacher educators and academic geographers– draw from young people's everyday experiences– extend the way that young people are involved in, and can directly influence, the curriculum– emphasise dialogic pedagogies– enable young people to use their capacity to think geographically when encountering the world
ICT SESSION
Some other options* for you...1. Explore BECTa materials
http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/ks4ict/projectideas
2. Sign up for a NING or two...3. Sign up and start a reflective
blog
* - students like alternative formats for homework and project tasks
Making a magazine cover / poster1. Go to http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/2. Choose Magazine cover or Movie Poster3. Decide on the cover image, save to your desktop and then upload it to the site.4. Decide on the description / taglines / title etc. for your chosen format, and fill in
the relevant boxes (don’t fill them all in as the poster will look too cluttered.5. Once you are fairly happy, press 6. This will show you the magazine as it looks at the moment. Look at the placement
and colour of the text. Can you see it clearly on the cover.7. Click EDIT COVER (just underneath the image) and you can make those changes.
You can keep doing this as often as you like, but as soon as you press SAVE, the cover will be saved and can’t be changed.
8. Save the image into the folder that your teacher will tell you.9. Get a blank powerpoint slide and paste the image into the middle of the slide.10. Use AUTOSHAPES for arrows and some text boxes to explain your choice of image
and labels.
Don’t forget audience / purpose
Feedback time....
MEDIA LITERACY
Kids
http://www.shillpages.com/movies/index2.shtml
All images under Creative Commons
• Bank note on title page - image by Flickr user nataliej
• Tiger Woods losing sponsorship - http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/nov/25/tiger-woods-sponsorship - image by Flickr user ATIS547
• Woolworths - image by Flickr user mrlerone• Clock by ToniVC• Thanks to Gary Simmons & Danny O’ Callaghan
for “vibrant hub” or “dead heart” CBD slides
All images under Creative Commons
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/lidl-and-aldi-see-sales-soar-amid-economic-downturn-853614.html - image by Flickr user ariel.chico
• Information Commons – Alan Parkinson• Bayards Cove, Dartmouth – Alan Parkinson• Shillpages for “The End”• DS and belongings: Artzy.viva
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