Cultural Geography Blog

I will be running my first VITAL Teachshare TONIGHT It's on ' FREE GIS TOOLS for the Geography Classroom ' and introduces the basics of GIS followed by 3 suggested websites which can be used to produce GIS-style work with students. If you'd like to join me, you'll need to click this link just before 7pm This will load up Elluminate on your machine which may take a few minutes.... For those who haven't been to an online session before, you'll be able to hear and see me going through a presentation and then have a chance to discuss things. You can ask question and I might ask you to click some icons to participate... You'll get the hang of it... We should be finished by 7.45, but you can of course feel free to join later and leave earlier if you like: that's the 'benefit' of online sessions like this.  Slides and links will be on Slideshare after the event. If you haven't already done so, head over to VITAL and sign up for a ...

I'm always up for new stamps, especially when they are geographical in nature. Some new Royal Mail stamps are out later this week. They are the first in a set of 26 stamps, which cover famous places from A - Z Which A-Z would you choose ?  A = Angel of the North                       B = Blackpool Tower C = Carrick-a-Rede D = Downing Street E = Edinburgh Castle F = Forth Railway Bridge G = Glastonbury Tor H = Harlech Castle I = Ironbridge J = Jodrell Bank K = Kursaal (Southend) L = Lindisfarne Priory Fits very nicely with Lesson 6 of my GA toolkit book: "Look at it this Way"

November is also Movember : when men who are men grow moustaches.... Cue Spongebob Movie.. This year, Richard Allaway , who can grow a mean 'tache, has set up a special group. The TASHTASTIC GEOGRAPHERS I've joined the team. If you'd like to donate to me or the team, visit my MO SPACE page

I've just completed my first mission on the relaunched Mission Explore.net which is now live in BETA It's called the DEAD EASY MISSION Come and login and find out what it involves... It's worth it to go and see Tom Morgan Jones' latest wonderful illustrations... Just going to do some missions at home... Coincidentally my EARTH SANDWICH Mission Explore t-shirt arrived today - it's cool. Why not order your own MISSION EXPLORE shirt to wear while completing the MISSION EXPLORE missions ?

The RGS-IBG hold regular subject updates for topics that are of relevance to 'A' level topics in particular. I mentioned a previous one on water, and will actually be leading one in 2012 on the theme of the Polar regions (of which more to come later...) There will be a subject update on the theme of Globalisation held in Manchester on the 5th of December 2011. This will be useful for those who would find it difficult travelling to London. Subject Knowledge Updates are a series of evening sessions each focusing on a different theme, covering the basic information for teaching that topic and providing up to date case study material and resources. The next session in this series looks at Globalisation. The DfE Schools White Paper 2010 The importance of Teaching highlights a need for subject knowledge to be included in CPD: “It is also vital that we give teachers the opportunity to deepen their subject knowledge and renew the passion which brought them into the c...