4. Alan Parkinson: Ordnance Survey Award 1980s: Geography degree at Huddersfield Poly with Tim Burt PGCE at Hull University with Vincent Tidswell Norway, 1984: Folgefonna
5. Alan Parkinson: Ordnance Survey Award 1988 to 2008: Taught at King Edward VII School King's Lynn, Norfolk Head of Geography 2004 to 2008
6. Alan Parkinson: Ordnance Survey Award Study Support Website launched 2001 Total visitors 2001: around 1000 Total visitors 2008: 660 000 ! http://www.geographypages.co.uk
7. Alan Parkinson: Ordnance Survey Award Blogging GeoBlogs (RGS funded) Google Earth Blog (RGS funded) GeographyJazz Blog KS3 Geography Blog Landscapes Blog New 'A' level Blog Cultural Geog Blog Pilot GCSE Blog
8. Alan Parkinson: Ordnance Survey Award The last 5 years have been busy... GA Secondary Committee Presented workshops at GA conference GA Consultant for School Atlas / BECTa Chartered Geographer and Fellow (2007) CfBT KS3 Adviser GGiP / Young People's Geography SLN Forum Moderator Presented at SAGT conferences / RGS Written for Evaluate / Guardian Webwatch author in GA Magazine Written textbook on 'Landscape'
14. Student Experiences Geography: the subject Teacher Choices Underpinned by Key Concepts Thinking Geographically Which learning activity ? Does this take the learner beyond what they already know ? Living Geography
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16. With thanks to Joe Dale http://joedale.typepad.com (MFL – embrace cross-curricular !!)
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19. Have you been using the Action Plan for Geography materials ? YES NO Please join the NEW GA Network http://geographical.ning.com Please e-mail [email_address] with your school details
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21. BECTa ICT KS4 Project Now ‘live’ on GA website and well worth plundering ! http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/ks4ict/projectideas
22. New GCSEs Comparison on GA website Join the debate on the GA Ning GA Conference (SPC) “Transforming Tired Topics” “Textbooks: everyone’s guilty pleasure” “Doorstep geography” “Food Crisis workshop”
37. Twitter “What are you doing...?” 140 character limit Twitpic by @stephenfry
38. Every teacher should also be a learner. The “Social Web” makes this possible at a time and a place to suit everybody. This is where your PLN comes in...
39. Blogging Geo Blogs (2003) Living Geography Geography and all that Jazz Cultural Geography “Look at it this Way” Google Earth Users Guide New Edexcel Geography
54. Oliver, no fan of political correctness, has hit back at reports he's been banned from the British town Rotherham – filming location for the celebrity chef's Ministry of Food . Talk of a ban surfaced when residents of Rotherham accused Oliver of portraying them as "dumbos" and "numpties". Oliver says the ban is "bollocks" and that he's been targeted by a minority of locals who see his show as an Oliver "vanity project" rather than a genuine campaign to help people whose diets are so appalling that they're eating themselves to death. A Rotherham local, former chef Alan Dale, says: "My message to Jamie is to stay away. Feelings are running high because he has made us look like complete idiots."
71. Town Centre Map Dartford Town Centre Photos by G Simmons Ring Road Station High Street Hythe Street Lowfield Street Regeneration Area Prospect Place Retail Park Priory shopping mall Orchard Shopping mall
72. Gala Bingo in the High St Dartford Town Centre Photos by G Simmons This site used to be Dartford’s cinema
73. Derelict Land in the High St Dartford Town Centre Photos by G Simmons This site has been empty since 2007
84. A YPG curriculum will : – be planned through dialogue: between teachers, young people, teacher educators and academic geographers – draw from young people's everyday experiences – extend the way that young people are involved in, and can directly influence, the curriculum – emphasise dialogic pedagogies – enable young people to use their capacity to think geographically when encountering the world
86. Some other options* for you... 1. Explore BECTa materials http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/ks4ict/projectideas 2. Sign up for a NING or two... 3. Sign up and start a reflective blog * - students like alternative formats for homework and project tasks