Posterous vs Virtual Cities

 GIS, Google Earth, ICT, INSET, mobile, Neogeography, Student work, Teaching resources  Comments Off
Oct 152011
 

This is a presentation I gave at the Somerset Geographers conference. I’m exploring how to incorporate social networking into my GCSE teaching, while encouraging the learners to make the best use of online resources.

Posterous versus virtual cities
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Accompanying this presentation was a video by Oasis:

and a Google Earth file incorporating Gavin’s unofficial OS maps overlay (not to be used in Google Earth!)

Thanks to the students whose work is featured in this presentation.

 Posted by Noel Jenkins at 11:14 am

Geogr@phy Blog

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Sep 292011
 

I like this Geography in the news blog and will recommend it to my students.

Via SLN,

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My favourite tools for encouraging collaboration

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Sep 282011
 

A Slideshare presentation from an INSET I led today. Etherpad proved the most popular; after a few minutes of virtual anarchy, colleagues quickly began to see the limitless potential.

5 ict tools
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Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

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Sep 182011
 

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.

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English Indices of Deprivation 2010

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Sep 172011
 

I re-discovered the excellent Guardian Datablog during the reporting of the summer riots. I was particularly interested in the correlation between the addresses of rioters and poverty as measured by the IMD.

The Indices of Deprivation attempt to measure a broad concept of ‘multiple deprivation’, made up of several distinct dimensions, or domains, of deprivation. The data is based on 38 separate indicators across seven domains: Income, Employment, Health and Disability, Education Skills and Training, Barriers to Housing and Other Services, Crime and Living Environment. source

In terms of classroom practicalities, the most convenient way of accessing the data seems to be to follow the link to the data source  Click on Visualize and Map to view in full screen. It should be possible to use the data in Google Earth. There is a  KML network link but I haven’t been able to make it work yet. Has anyone been successful?

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Mobile phone voting

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Sep 102011
 

Hiatus over… Digital Geography blog returns with a new committment to sharing some of the ways in which I’m using ICT in the geography classroom.

I’ve made a commitment to making better use of mobile phones in the classroom this year. One of the first things I’ve tried is text voting. Here’s a live example from my first GCSE lesson. Feel free to give it a test!

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SMS Poll is perfect to try with classess. The free plan gives you 300 votes per month with a maximum of 30 votes per poll. You may also want to look at Poll Everywhere as an alternative.

 Posted by Noel Jenkins at 7:11 pm

History Pin

 Google Maps, Participatory geographies, Photographs, Student work  Comments Off
Dec 162010
 

The concept of History Pin from We Are What We Do and Google is beautifully simple. Young people spend time talking with people of an older generation about their old photographs and associated memories. The photos and stories are uploaded to the History Pin website, where they can be viewed through Google Maps and Street View. A little piece of history is created.

Here’s a short video explaining more:

It took a little while, but we finally persuaded some wonderful older people to visit a small group of Year 8 & 9  in our Student Support Centre. Over the course of two sessions, the students found themselves asking dozens of questions; in fact the original purpose of discussing photographs was quite subverted by the quality of the dialogue itself. In the end we only got to add one photo to the History Pin data base, but we’ll certainly run future sessions and try and expand the project further. History Pin is my discovery of the year!

 Posted by Noel Jenkins at 3:32 pm
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