A busy week with a series of minor updates to geographyalltheway.com as well as some research into some future resources (a bypass project in the French Pyrenees and a flood management case study in the UK).
Online Geography Resources Showcase
I have added this Showcase to try and show some of the resources which people may not know about. Let me know if you think that there are any resources on geographyalltheway.com that you think should be added to the Showcase.
You can see the Showcase by clicking on the link which is found in the header of each webpage:
geographyalltheway.com Newsletter
I have changed the form used to subscribe to the geographyalltheway.com Newsletter. I’m now using a Google Form as I believe that it should be allowed through more/most firewalls etc. Please let me know if you have issues accessing the form and I’ll try to improve the accessibility further.
Talking Head - Text Versions of Speech
I have added text versions of what the Talking Head characters say in the Greetings from Hallsands, Seaside Tours and Niagara Tours resource mini-sites - just for those very rare times that SitePal doesn’t play ball an the characters lose their voice. It also helps the accessibility of the speech to EAL students and those with hearing issues.
Submit a question
I have added a link so that teachers/educators using the Talking Head interviews from the Seaside Tours and Niagara Tours mini-sites can submit additional questions. If I get enough suggestions - I’ll add those questions.
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The Talking Heads seem to working fine again - must have been a problem with ther servers at SitePal - the company that provide the service.
If anybody else has any issues please get in touch and I’ll see what I can do.
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Sorry - but there seems to an issue with the Talking Hrads on geographyalltheway.com. The ones with a play button as part of the unit work fine. It is the ones where you click for the text - such as Niagara Tours and Seaside Tours - seem to have an issue. I’ll let you know as soon as the issue is sorted. The issue is with the service that provide the Talking Heads - not with geographyalltheway.com.
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Each week a new image is added to the homepage of geographyalltheway.com. If you can name the country from the image enter the competition!
The competition is open to everybody - the winner being chosen from all the correct answers received. The winner receives a unique certificate via email.
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Just for information really - I used to have a moodle installation on geographyalltheway.com. I have closed it down and have moved it to istgeography.net - my school geography department website.
I will hopefully be developing it’s content later in the academic year.
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Again I’m a little late in getting this post sorted. I didn’t manage to write this post last week which was a little disappointment. Is was mainly due to me being rather tired and behind after an excellent weekend spent trekking in the Pyrenees - more about that here.
Last Week
Year 7 Geography
Students have finished the What is Geography? unit and have started the Using Maps and Atlases unit by looking at Map Projections.
Year 9 Geography
Students have covered biofuels and locating a wind farm - which uses a geographyalltheway.com worksheet with a GIS simulation produced by Ordnance Survey.
Year 10 IGCSE Geography
Students have continued to work positively through the Population Change section. They have looked at the Impact of HIV/AIDS and the Population vs Resources debate.
Year 11 IGCSE Geography
Students have finished the River Processes section and completed an IGCSE style assessment using past questions.
Year 12 IB Geography
Students have been studying Population Distribution and Population Fertility.
Year 13 IB Geography
Students have been looking at Contrasting Levels of Development by comparing the development of Norway and Niger. Then they started the Sustainable Development section.
Next Week
Year 7 Geography
Students will cover Longitude and Latitude and hopefully progress onto Atlas Skills.
Year 9 Geography
Students will prepare for ‘The Great Wind Farm Debate‘ - using the information provided by Talking Heads, Google Earth overlays and delicious bookmarks.
Year 10 IGCSE Geography
Students will study Population Policies.
Year 11 IGCSE Geography
Students will start the Marine Processes / Coast unit of the course by looking at Wave Processes and Coastal Landforms.
Year 12 IB Geography
Students will finish the Population Fertility section by looking at Spatial Patterns and then start the Population Mortality section.
Year 13 IB Geography
Students will be look at Sustainable Development at various scales - Local, National and International.
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During Curriculum Extension activities today I had my group drawing with the Geography Departments GPS units. This was the best of the bunch - produced by a boy in Year 8 - which I thought was great!
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I have been playing with my GPS and the school’s new GPS-USB cable, Google Earth and the GPS Visualizer website. The image above and the .kmz file below shows our descent from Refuge du Rulhe which I wrote about here. A mixture of outdoor adventure and gadgets - perfect!
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