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wwwRevisited v.4 for Geography teachers

Thanks to a really nice tweet from Simon Renshaw, and input from Mark Ollis and others on Twitter, I’ve accelerated the new version of my Web 2.0 toolkit specifically for geography teachers. There’s a lot of updates to this version, and I’m quite pleased with it.

wwwv4g

web version with hyperlinks
word version with notes and links
original Inspiration file – interactive and editable in Inspiration 8

City-centre regeneration: a 360 image of Princesshay, Exeter.

My latest image on 360 cities.net – taken to exemplify a modern, mixed-use redevelopment in a CBD.


Princesshay, Exeter in England

wwwREVISITED v4

I’m doing some work for NQTs tomorrow, and have updated my Web 2.0 toolkit with some new discoveries (especially eyeplorer, thanks to Kenny O’Donnell, and John Davitt’s learning idea generators) This version has been slimmed down for a non-subject specific audience. Links to the interactive diagrams are below:

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download web version

download word doc version

360 panoramas on Juicy Geography

My recent 360 degree panoramic images with some degree of classroom potential have been added to a new page on Juicy Geography. Eventually they’ll be sorted out into categories and suggested teaching ideas added.
It has been incredibly expensive to buy the necessary equipment to make these images. I wonder if the donation button will get any response? It is easy to remove the embed option – which I will if they start appearing on other web sites!

Online Geography Gaming

Tony Cassidy continues to flow with the zeitgeist and has started a new collaborative presentation on Geography gaming. I really enjoyed contributing as it gave me the opportunity to hunt back through my delicious bookmarks to search for some forgetten gems. The presentation has already reached maturity in just a couple of days!

Ideas to Inspire

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A quick for Mark Warner’s Ideas To Inspire mini-site. Collaborative presentations of good teaching ideas contributed by educators around the world have been neatly organized into a really useful reference resource that’s bound to grow over time. Cheers Mark!

GIS in the classroom – a collaboration of ideas

I’ve created a Google Docs presentation to generate some ideas for using GIS in the classroom. Please get in touch if you’d like to help out. You’ll need to create a Google account first. I’m looking for ideas for both primary and secondary classrooms. Inspiration of course comes from Tom Barrett’s ‘Interesting Ways to..’ series of presentations, while more generic ideas are being collated in Tony Cassidy’s 101 creatively simple ways to teach Geography.