I have been aware of the Atlantic Rising project for a short while now through a recent Tweet and post on the SLN Forum. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been having a look at the website and thinking of ways in which the work can be used in the classroom. If you are unfamiliar with the project, the video below has a brief recap as well as details of the school photography competition. Launch of Atlantic Rising's school photography competition We will be setting the competition for Year 8 as homework this term, as our unit is coasts and we all live right on the coast. We will also be using some of the useful case studies available on the main site. For example, there is a nice write up of a coastal protection scheme in Ghana . We will compare the experiences in Portsmouth with those there. One of the most useful resources are the photo and video galleries. These help tell the human story as well as the interaction between people and their environment.
Proud to announce that Friday Afternoon Geography has hit the market. This is the third publication that I have authored. It's aimed at GCSE classes for revision, although the activities can also be used as starters, plenaries and in-betweenies! Published by Philip Allan . If anyone has come across it, I would be grateful for any feedback.
As a geography teacher it is really important that we cover what is happening now. The recent events in Iceland are an excellent example of an opportunity to introduce ‘Floating Topicality’ (a term coined by Jeff Stanfield the Hampshire Geography Inspector) into the curriculum. This post aims to demonstrate that this is a relatively straight forward process if you are a connected teacher. I define this to be a teacher that involves themselves in continuous CPD through online communities. There are plenty of great resources being put together by teachers out there. I had to focus on getting some guidelines for Controlled Assessment together so didn’t have time to find resources myself. The lesson went like so: As the class entered the room a Flickr slideshow of Iceland volcano images was playing. In addition, a playlist of volcano related tunes were playing thanks to my Twitter network. I also added a live feed via tweetdeck searches: #ashtag and ‘volcano stranded’.
I woke up this morning from a nice email from the folks over at slidehare . Turns out that their Education editorial team decided to spotlight the presentation given at the GA Conference last week. Sweet :-) You can view the presentation below, and the blog post that went along with it is here . I Want To Break Free View more presentations from David Rogers .
