My writing project is finished. Yay!
Since forever, I’ve been writing geography resources for the new GCSE specs. This has been the reason for few Juicy Geography updates for six months. I’ve spent an astounding number of hours on this project, and now have the utmost respect for any teacher who writes in their spare time. The original brief for my work implied that I’d need about 3 hours per chapter, however it turned out that each one required around 24 solid hours of research, even before the writing started. (and I’m a very slow writer!) The project is going to be published shortly, though I’ve decided for personal reasons that I don’t wish to be credited for the work.
Here’s the whole project summed up as a Wordle (reverse engineering is not allowed!)

Finally it's all over!
Link to the full version on Wordle
I’d like to thank Massive Attack, Eels, The Good The Bad and The Queen, Johnny Cash, PJ Harvey, the Hold Steady, Goldfrapp, Beirut and Sigur Ros, as well my family for their support over the past few months. Also my editor and contacts at the publishers for being very helpful. There’s no way I’ll ever commit to a project like this again. I’m going to give all forms of blogging and writing a rest for the next few months and try to get fit again. The only extra-curricular work I’ll be involved in is my QTVR project; though I will also try and persuade my publishers to find a way to share at least some of the new ideas for GCSE with the community.

iPhones, Moab, Mont Blanc, Gibe III, BASE jumping, and the world’s largest gold mine all feature in my new GCSE resources.
During the remainder of the Easter holiday I have another few days of BBC type work to finish, as well as GCSE projects and Year 10 reports to write. Then there’s the small matter of several sets of books to mark and an INSET course I’m leading in London on the first day back at school. There’s a GCSE field trip during that week as well. Suck that up Simon Heffer and other teacher-hating correspondents. We do actually work pretty hard.
If any education publishers are reading this – I actually have got a great idea for the future of textbooks. However, I’ll keep it to myself for now -unless you want to sponsor my QTVR project!
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