Generous Geographers Panel Slides

1. Generous Geographers
Alan Parkinson
GA Vice President
Head of Geography, King’s Ely Junior
“There is no delight in owning
anything unshared” - Seneca
Image:
Gary
Pearson
Photography,
Facebook
On
every
image:
“Please
feel
free
to
share”

2. I wouldn’t be here without...
Steve Hanstock
Tim Burt
Vincent Tidswell
Chas Arnold
Ian Stockwell
Liz Taylor
Chris Durbin
Kate Russell
Val & John Vannet
Noel Jenkins
Tony Cassidy
Rob Lodge
Alan Kinder
John Widdowson
Justin Woolliscroft
David Lambert
John Lyon, Paula Owens & Wendy North
Steve Rawlinson
Mike Douglass
Claire Kyndt
& hundreds of
others….

4. Sharesies
GeographyPages - over 10 million page views
Blogs - around 20 000 blog posts with over 6 million views
Images - 31 000 images arranged in albums - 800 000+
views
Slideshare / Scribd - over 500 documents, 600 000+ views
Collaborative Google Documents / GA Website materials
/ TeachitGeography resources etc.
Free resources for numerous companies & organisations
& over 60 000 Tweets (joined in April 2008)
Image:
Gary
Pearson
Photography,
Facebook
On
every
image:
“Please
feel
free
to
share”

5. Two (hundred) heads are better than one
GA Conference 2013
Stressed the importance of SLN: Staffordshire Learning Network - GA Gold
Award winning and predating other network sites.

6. Why share?
Because we all have those moments when we need a hand
Because it makes you feel good
Because it involves you in our community of practice
Because it forms part of your e-portfolio for others to see, and
discover.
Because sometimes you may even earn a little extra money to
treat yourself.

7. Reinventing the wheel & building community

8. Ron Johnston
“He never stopped
writing: writing, for
Ron, was thinking –
never a simple record
of what he had done.
So he never stopped
writing because he
never stopped
thinking. Writing for
Ron was also living –
once you knew Ron,
you could hear his
voice when you read
his work.”
Peter Wall

9. Why not?
Because people take it and put it on TES Resources of elsewhere for profit
and don’t share the money with you
Because not everyone says thank you
‘Imposter syndrome’
Because you haven’t reached that point…. Yet… where you are
happy to release something you’ve produced out into the world.

10. References
Peter Wall on Ron Johnston:
https://geographicalimaginations.com/2020/05/30/big-ron/
Two Hundred Heads: https://www.slideshare.net/GeoBlogs/2-hundred-heads
GA Presidents blog http://gapresidents.blogspot.com
LivingGeography blog http://livinggeography.blogspot.com
GeographyPages on the web archive
Twitter: @GeoBlogs