Archive for September, 2007

Digital Geography review

Published by Noel Jenkins on September 7, 2007 in Asides. 0 Comments

Thanks to Steve Brace who correctly guessed that I hadn’t picked up on a short review of this site by the Daily Telegraph.

A splendid example of an educational blog. Students and teachers alike will be fascinated by the ideas here for using new technology - things like Google Earth and GPS devices - as teaching aids.

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The article also reviews the Your Climate Your Life Site mentioned in a previous post.

Stateris

Published by Noel Jenkins on September 1, 2007 in Teaching resources. 1 Comment

Knowing where places are isn’t really my thing but Stateris, a combination of geography and Tetris could make a nice competitve classroom activity.

Teacher Tube and Google Earth

Published by Noel Jenkins on September 1, 2007 in Google Earth, Google Maps and video. 2 Comments

It works! However to avoid duplicating the post head to the relevant post at Juicy Geography’s Google Earth blog for the evidence.