Cultural Geography Blog

My opening word for WORDLE has always been EARTH : the object of study for geographers... When I remember, I complete the daily puzzle on my New York Times app.  A few days ago, I finally got the word in one...

It's Christmastime.... Walk into any city centre shop and the usual Christmas music is playing on repeat... A superb idea was added to the SLN Geography Forum earlier today by Andrew Boardman . It's to take the lyrics of Band Aid : Do they know it's Christmas ? , and to reappraise them, and assess their accuracy to what 'Africa' is actually like... Will there really be "no snow in Africa this Christmas" ? or "no water flowing" ? The original single was released in 1984, with another version Band Aid 20 in 2004: 20 years on. Were the lyrics of the remake any better ? The original video can be seen here, thanks to YouTube.... The World Development Movement have already criticised the lyrics (some years ago now) for their portrayal of African communities, and the apparent 'reasons' for poverty. This is a nice way in to the portrayal of places in the media, and how the choice of images can influence opinion: something that OSOCIO is always...

Another Wordle. This time it's looking at the issue of local Cultural Identity: what could we do to celebrate Norfolk if given the 8 minutes that London had at the end of the Olympics ? This is a summary of the student responses... Thanks to the students involved, from Park, Litcham, Fakenham and Springwood High Schools.

What factors influence the person that we become ? Contributions made by students involved in workshop that I ran earlier this week in King's Lynn

Below is a WORD CLOUD of some 6th Form geography revision topics as produced by my new favourite website: WORDLE . (thanks to Tony Cassidy via Noel Jenkins for the tip off here...) Why not try it with some cultural references... Has great potential - clouds can be edited...