Digital Geography

Who Is Sick?

Noel Jenkins — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:00:20 +0000

Keep the website Who Is Sick? in your browser favourites, in case any students are feeling off-colour!

Add them to the database and see if any geographical patterns emerge. Someone claims to be feeling a little peaky in Exeter today!

Gapminder updates

Noel Jenkins — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:24:09 +0000

Over 100 new datasets have been added to Gapminder according to the Gapminder World blog

Some teaching ideas of mine are here

www.Revisited - a teacher’s toolkit on the web

Noel Jenkins — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:42:34 +0000

I’ve made this as part of a forthcoming course for NQTs. Maybe it will be useful to others. There’s hundreds of similar lists - but this one is composed entirely of sites that I find indispensible in my teaching (apart from Remember The Milk - I just like the name!)

The file as a stand alone web page (diagram only)

The file as a Word Document (includes extra notes)

The original Inspiration 8 file (includes hidden notes)

Who I am on del.icio.us

Noel Jenkins — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:58:10 +0000

Playing with Wordle via: Information Aesthetics

This is a word cloud of my del.icio.us tags - and very revealing about my online activities over the past three years.

Geodemographic postcode data lookup

Noel Jenkins — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:41:18 +0000

Beacon Dodsworth provide a really interesting dataset called P2 People and Places on their website. Look up UK postcodes to see how the local area is classified. I tried it out with a group of students who were astonished at the results.

Wind Energy lesson revised

Noel Jenkins — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:34:25 +0000

I’ve extensively revised and updated my Google Earth based lesson on wind energy: