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Facebook Profile Template

Check out the great new resources from Tony Cassidy The resources take the shape of a template to produce a FACEBOOK-style "profile" The profile could be for a culture, company, musical or literature genre etc... The template is here: What if they had a Facebook profile? View more presentations from TonyCassidy . And followed shortly after by a TWITTER template, also produced by the inimitable Tony... Twitter Starter Template View more presentations from TonyCassidy . Quality stuff... UPDATE: Here is some fantastic work by Year 9 students from Seaford Head Community College, who used the idea in their Geography lessons with Miss Smith. I love these. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to see some other examples... Facebook and Twitter Profiles View more presentations from Liz Smith .

Facebook and Tony Cassidy

Tony Cassidy 's latest contribution to the geography resources pantheon is a resource which is based on the profile that people create when they join FACEBOOK. Tony has created a blank FACEBOOK profile template in powerpoint, which could then be used to create a template for a huge variety of contexts within the geography classroom. What if they had a Facebook profile? View more presentations from TonyCassidy . Tony himself suggests producing one for Old Harry: an extension of the classic - "Old Harry: This is your Life" idea.... On the SLN Forum , further ideas that were suggested by a number of colleagues included: The area / street the students live in A new migrant arriving in the UK Teenager in Kenya Resident of Dubai Young person on Baffin Island Mt. Vesuvius Could also do it for a Country... Could also use it as a context for teaching about e-safety As many teachers in England and Wales prepare to return to school this week, this is just the sort of simple, cre...

Where is Christmas from ?

Following on from my earlier post on Christmas resources, Tony Cassidy has come up with another winner... Head over to Tony Cassidy's RADICAL GEOGRAPHY for more Christmas resources, and to download this essential Christmas homework. Another quality Cassidy production.... Where's Christmas from ? And coincidentally, my visitor statistics list says I've just had a visitor from Snowflake, Arizona.

Do you use films in your geography teaching ?

If so, Chris Lloyd Staples would like to hear from you for a session she's running at this year's SAGT CONFERENCE. She has set up a SURVEY MONKEY survey where you can enter details of your TOP 10 (or numbers less than that) of films that you use in the classroom... Speaking of which, Tony Cassidy has been at his "film poster subversion" again... Just filled in the survey myself and I mentioned a few films that I use bits of.

Mythconceptions of Place

We used Tony's Cultural Quiz in today's lesson and you liked it a lot, especially Beethoven's 5th Symphony ! Good feedback - "fun", "good", "enjoyed that", "wicked.." etc... We all did better on the popular culture than the elite culture except for one tie... Also coming up is another resource from one of my virtual Geography colleagues, this time it's Val from Scotland. Back in 2005, she looked at the ways in which Scotland was represented as a place, and here are the first few slides from the presentation that she used at the GA Conference. I was present at her session, and we even got some pictures in the GA Magazine... We're going to do a similar exercise with Liverpool, and some other places possibly... How are places represented ? Year 9s will also become familiar with the ideas here as they are used to explore the images and mythconceptions that we have about China...

Britishness...

Just reading Billy Bragg's "The Progressive Patriot" - got mixed reviews, but some nice ideas on Britishness and the growth of multicultural England. It's worth checking some postings on my Pilot GCSE Blog (with the label ENGLAND), and looking at labels like Britishness and Fish and Chips . Some great resources have been produced in this area by Tony Cassidy, particularly some work relating to the UK Citizenship Test. Another great resource is Common Ground's "England in Particular" - more on this in a later post...