Since August, I’ve pushed blogging and other forms of time-wasting activities firmly to one side and dedicated myself to a series of adventures in hidden places. Every weekend has been a new experience, learning new skills and going deeper and further into the hidden parts of the built environment that surrounds us. It’s a simple, yet hugely fulfilling activity, filled with remarkable characters and stories, risks and rewards. This Flickr River stream randomly serves up a taster of some of the places I’ve been:
The hobby has benefited both History and Geography lessons. This weekend we visited a hidden deep shelter, built to house 2,500 people during WW2. It was a surreal time walk:
I made this video for a local teacher (I had the song going around my head while exploring the shelter) Others might also find it useful:
It’s been VERY quiet on the blog for a while – every so often I like to take a break and re-calibrate my life. Digital Geography is in a bit of a hiatus at the moment as my weekends are fully booked with various adventures – in fact I might even sell the domain if I get a good enough offer!
However I’ve been really enjoying working on some new projects. Dave Holmes and I are running a Web 2.0 / Google Earth course in London soon and as usual there will be quite a bit of variation to the published programme. I’m particularly interested in student publishing at the moment, so along with the usual Google Earth updates I’m looking forward to sharing ideas for personal geographies, VR images, and new decision-making activities. I’d like delegates to finish the day confident that they can get their students up and running with their own blogs and happily working with a range of neo-geography applications. Feel free to get in touch for more information, or go to the Philip Allan site.
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