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Coastal Processes in the flume

Noel Jenkins — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:56:32 +0000

I’ve been making use of the flume this week for teaching coastal processes. Longshore drift is really easy to demonstrate, along with cliff erosion, slumping and flowing.

Here’s Year 10 recapping the pros and cons of hard engineering options for coastal management:

Filmed and edited entirely on the iPad.

Instructions to make a flume at Juicy Geography

Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

Noel Jenkins — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:21:22 +0000

With the prospect of a new Geography Curriculum in 2012 that fails to include any mention of sustainability, here’s a great thinking piece from the Ellen Macarthur Foundation.

way back home

Noel Jenkins — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:34:20 +0000

If you can’t think of a way to get this clip into a Geography lesson, there’s no hope for you
Danny MacAskill returns in a short film that features his sublime riding skills set against in a backdrop of inspirational locations in Edinburgh and the Highlands and Islands.
In response, students could be challenged to select locations for a similar film that would show off the best of their local area.
(Via Mike Deere – Facebook)

Ten ideas for using BBC Class Clips in the classroom

Noel Jenkins — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:01:49 +0000

I’ve been tangentially involved with BBC Class Clips for some time. I thought I’d share some ideas for using short clips in the classroom as I’m preparing a short INSET presentation.

1. Write a short critical response in You Tube style, or following more formal guidelines.

2. Play “stop the video” Give students three questions in advance and get them to pause the video when the question has been answered.

3. Turn the sound off, so that students can write their own voiceover. This could be recorded using Audacity.

4. Pause the video: guess what happens next?

5. Remake the video using Flip videos (could be done in puppet or stop motion style).

6. Embed the video in a PowerPoint or blog post.

7. Give students a selection of clips, they have to choose the clip that best represents the theme.

8. Sum up the video in 3 words / 3 sentences / 3 paragraphs.

9. Use the video as source material for completing a writing frame.

10. Get students to write down 5 words associated with the video. Save to a shared folder and analyze the contents with Wordle

And a naughty bonus, just because you can…
Geo-locate the video (BBC class clips can be viewed directly in Google Earth) Here’s the procedure:

Locate the url of the Flash video version of the clip and paste it into a new browser page.

Right click to view the source code.

Copy all the code between the emp here comment tags (towards the end of the source code and beginning with div id = player.

Make a placemark as desired in Google Earth and right click to edit its properties.

Paste the video embed code directly into the placemark description.

Save the placemark – here’s a demo which needs Google Earth.

Video-conferencing opportunity for geography teachers

Noel Jenkins — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:32:56 +0000

All geography teachers are welcome. More details at the wiki and the SLN forum post.
Please request access to edit the Wiki, when permission is received, add your name to the attendees by editing it. If you feel brave and want to speak about a resource, topic or issue, please add to the agenda.

We are limited to a number of 20, but have the possibility of increasing numbers; we will also record the meeting so that they can be viewed online. There is a demo facility on the FlashMeeting site. As well as allowing you to test your webcam/microphone, it lets you see what the meeting willl look like. Hovering over various different features (eg the chat, broadcast button, etc.) brings up a box telling you what that feature does. It is dead straightforward and will be well worth coming along, even if it’s as a “lurker” at first!

The agenda for tonight’s meeting is here.

Augmented Reality demo

Noel Jenkins — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:49:56 +0000

Here’s a short video to demonstrate AR Sights, an augmented reality application that uses a webcam and marker to display 3D models from Google Earth on your desk. The resulting output is really compelling; models can be resized rotated and moved around as illustrated in the video.

Thanks to Ollie Bray for his original blog post.

a day in the life of my classroom…

Noel Jenkins — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:52:35 +0000

I’ve been meaning to make this film for ages. It’s a simple time-lapse of a day in my classroom. My camera was mounted on a tripod and I used a fisheye lens to capture the whole room. The 700 photos were batch resized in seconds using an Apple Automator script and the film was made instantly in Quick Time Pro. I added the music in iMovie.

a day in the life of my classroom from Noel Jenkins on Vimeo.

The day started with a free period, so I’m on the computer doing some SEN reviews. I taught a lesson on floods to my year 7, then it’s break. Afterwards it’s my GCSE class doing a case study of Darfur, followed by Year 8s looking at different volcanoes. Lunch time is spent with the camera club then it’s registration and a final year 7 lesson.