Cultural Geography Blog

It's back ! Series 2 starts 10th of February This was the TV highlight of 2008...

A great geographically related song from the end credits of WALL-E: "Down to Earth"... Has been nominated for an Oscar we discovered today... Here's another "hydrologically-themed" track which is a classic live favourite. Hopefully will get to see PG again this year... and finally another beautiful track from WALL-E with Peter Gabriel's touch on it. Used this as the mood music for an SAGT presentation:

There's a great buildings / vehicle creation option on Spore. Could create a wonderful virtual city... This comic made by my son.

Another wonderful Olivier Kugler image in the G2 end of year cartoon special, that I finally caught up with yesterday. This one looks at the life of FATIMA: a refugee from Somalia. Case study was taken from REFUGEEWOMEN website. Olivier is someone whose work I admire greatly. He draws from life: he particularly enjoys drawing on location, or from reference photos of places that he has visited. Each drawing has a wonderful sense of 'place', and there is a strong element of cartography to his work. Below is an example for those who don't know his work: of the King's Arms pub... Image copyright: Olivier Kugler Like this ? Check out Olivier's website . It would be great to have Olivier's contribution to 'My Places' in Teaching Geography... Check out his SHETLANDS TO CUBA images too...

My latest favourite place for 'off-the-wall' starters... Warning: some language that might be... YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A 'Good' Video

Just been adding some sections to the EDEXCEL GEOG NING which now has over 420 members. Come and join us if you haven't already.... Noticed that one of the options for the GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH topic (which is Unit 4) is: Option 4: The World of CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY (Extract from Edexcel Document) Culture Culture is a complex concept, with multiple meanings but universal importance to human populations. In many parts of the world consumption is the dominant, but not the only, culture. Culture varies spatially and has a distinct geography, with some areas being relatively homogenous while others offer greater diversity. Large urban areas often produce diversity, which is reflected in the population, services and built environment of cities. Attitudes to cultural diversity differ, both personal and political/national. Cultural Patterns Globalisation is seen by some as a key process in driving culture towards a global model, and media TNCs and communications technology aid this proces...

BLIGHTY is from the authors of "Is it just me or is everything ****" Got it cheap. Looks quite good. Also noticed on the schedules yet ANOTHER book about Britishness: "A Field Guide to the British" by Sarah Lyall - you can read the first chapter on Amazon.

The latest edition of the GA Magazine is now available to download from the GA website (you need to log in first...) This is a particularly good issue, but then I have to declare an interest: I edited the issue, along with David Rayner. In addition to the usual features, such as a particularly good Webwatch, there are some feature pieces on the concept of INTERDEPENDENCE . The middle section was the bit I edited. Highlights of the issue include: "Thinking inside the box": an article on the BBC 'box' project by me "Connecting Classrooms": an article by Graham Goldup on a project to develop a school link with Arusha, Tanzania & Brighton schools "Windwards Revisited": an article by Martin Crabbe on the ongoing links that he has maintained following a trip to the Windward Islands in 2005 "Interdependence Day": a summary of the report by Joe Smith of the Open University "Food glorious food - but for how much longer ?": an artic...

Those teaching CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY will be delighted to hear that Tony Cassidy has been busy over Christmas, and has updated his resources, and added a few new additions. Plenty of inspiration HERE . Thanks Tony !

Just installed a few AIR apps: TWHIRL: Twitter client WEBKUT: Cut sections from web pages and save them as images SHRINK-O-MATIC: Image resizer