http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:02:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   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! http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2008/06/who-is-sick/ Over 100 new datasets have been added to Gapminder according to the Gapminder World blog Some teaching ideas of mine are here http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2008/06/gapminder-updates/ 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 ... http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2008/06/wwwrevisited-a-teachers-toolkit-on-the-web/ 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. http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2008/06/who-i-am-on-delicious/ 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. http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2008/05/geodemographic-postcode-data-lookup/  I've extensively revised and updated my Google Earth based lesson on wind energy: http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2008/05/wind-energy-lesson-revised/