pgce geography presentation

Image by Alan Parkinson

My contact details

alanparkinsonatthega

aparkinson@geography.org.uk

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Contents / Aims / Objectives / Menu• Living Geography• What can the GA do for you ?• Developing your PLN• “My Favourite Price”• “I’ll show you mine...”•NOW YOU SHOW ME YOURS !

Student Experiences

Geography: the subjectTeacher Choices

Underpinned by Key Concepts

Thinking Geographically

Which learning activity ?

Does this take the learner beyond what they already know ?

Living GeographyLiving Geography

Living Geography:

• embraces young people’s geography and experiences• is current and future oriented• is local but set in wider (global) contexts• raises questions of change, sustainability and development

With thanks to Joe Dalehttp://joedale.typepad.com(MFL – embrace cross-curricular !!)

Have you been using the Action Plan for Geography materials ?

YES NO

Please join the NEW GA Networkhttp://geographical.ning.com

Please e-mailaparkinson@geography.org.uk with

your school details

The Food Crisis• I am writing a unit for the Training and Development Agency• This will eventually be available as an ONLINE CPD unit• It explores the issue of FOOD SECURITY.• Would you like to be involved in trialling them ??

BECTa ICT KS4 ProjectNow ‘live’ on GA website and well

worth plundering !http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/ks4ict/projectideas

New GCSEsComparison on GA website

Join the debate on the GA Ning

GA Conference (SPC)“Transforming Tired Topics”

“Textbooks: everyone’s guilty pleasure”“Doorstep geography”“Food Crisis workshop”

Young Peoples Geographies

Journals – online for download

Clay Shirky

“the best tool ever invented for improving communication is

the table...”

“Social networking”

“Social networking”

Professional networking

The Networked teacher....Then and Now (Alec Couros)

PLUG YOURSELF IN….

Twitter“What are you doing...?”

140 character limit

Twitpic by @stephenfry

Every teacher should also be a learner.

The “Social Web” makes this possible at a time and a place to suit

everybody.This is where your PLN comes in...

BloggingGeo Blogs (2003)Living Geography

Geography and all that JazzCultural Geography

“Look at it this Way”Google Earth Users GuideNew Edexcel Geography

http://ks3geography.ning.com

Over 450 members

http://geographical.ning.com

Over 340 membersAlso a dedicated network for

PGCE / NQT / GTP

Flickr User: ToniVC

My Favourite Price

http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html

“the only way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas...”

Winston Churchill

In pairs or threes... (3 minutes)

??

http://animoto.com

Yorkshire Floods – Summer 2007

http://wordle.netBeautiful tag clouds

Facebook – Chris Evetts

Oliver, no fan of political correctness, has hit back at reports he's been banned from the British town Rotherham – filming location for the celebrity chef's Ministry of Food.Talk of a ban surfaced when residents of Rotherham accused Oliver of portraying them as "dumbos" and "numpties".Oliver says the ban is "bollocks" and that he's been targeted by a minority of locals who see his show as an Oliver "vanity project" rather than a genuine campaign to help people whose diets are so appalling that they're eating themselves to death.A Rotherham local, former chef Alan Dale, says: "My message to Jamie is to stay away. Feelings are running high because he has made us look like complete idiots."

Flickr: Artzy.viva

Flickr Toys• Picture Collages• Trading Cards• Photo Mosaics• CD covers• Motivator poster• Magazine covers• Movie posters• Picture frames• Captions...

Doorknob preparation...

• Hand up who’s “winged” a lesson recently ?

• Did it go well ?

• If so, why ?• If not, why not ?

“I’ll show you mine.....”

Simon Renshaw: Google Maps

Whose journeys ?

Palin: a ‘geographer’ ?http://www.palinstravels.co.uk

SLN Geography

Flip Video

Knock KnockWho’s there ?

A DOCTOR ?

A MATHS TEACHER ?

A BALLET DANCER ?

A SHEEP SHEARER ?

A GEOGRAPHY TEACHER ?

Is Dartford Town Centre - a Dead Heart?

DME January 2009

Town Centre Map

Dartford Town CentrePhotos by G Simmons

Ring Road

Station

High Street

Hythe Street

Lowfield Street Regeneration Area

Prospect Place Retail Park

Priory shopping mall

Orchard Shopping mall

Gala Bingo in the High St

Dartford Town CentrePhotos by G Simmons

This site used to be Dartford’s cinema

Derelict Land in the High St

Dartford Town CentrePhotos by G Simmons

This site has been empty since 2007

City centre ‘health’ spectrumMove the text boxes into the correct place on the health spectrum

Very vibrant

Fairly vibrant

Completely dead heart

Fairly dead

Credit Crunch G£ography

Winners and Losers & Geo-connections

Flickr user: nataliej

What connections are there with geography ?

• Higher energy costs• Changing retail landscape• Less disposable income• Price-cutting and bargain-hunting• Austerity • De-multipliers starting off...• Higher unemployment• Impact on global warming ?

AssessmentWhat can you explain in a

text message ?

A YPG curriculum will: – be planned through dialogue: between teachers, young people, teacher educators and academic geographers– draw from young people's everyday experiences– extend the way that young people are involved in, and can directly influence, the curriculum– emphasise dialogic pedagogies– enable young people to use their capacity to think geographically when encountering the world

ICT SESSION

Some other options* for you...1. Explore BECTa materials

http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/ks4ict/projectideas

2. Sign up for a NING or two...3. Sign up and start a reflective

blog

* - students like alternative formats for homework and project tasks

Making a magazine cover / poster1. Go to http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/2. Choose Magazine cover or Movie Poster3. Decide on the cover image, save to your desktop and then upload it to the site.4. Decide on the description / taglines / title etc. for your chosen format, and fill in

the relevant boxes (don’t fill them all in as the poster will look too cluttered.5. Once you are fairly happy, press 6. This will show you the magazine as it looks at the moment. Look at the placement

and colour of the text. Can you see it clearly on the cover.7. Click EDIT COVER (just underneath the image) and you can make those changes.

You can keep doing this as often as you like, but as soon as you press SAVE, the cover will be saved and can’t be changed.

8. Save the image into the folder that your teacher will tell you.9. Get a blank powerpoint slide and paste the image into the middle of the slide.10. Use AUTOSHAPES for arrows and some text boxes to explain your choice of image

and labels.

Don’t forget audience / purpose

Feedback time....

MEDIA LITERACY

Kids

http://www.shillpages.com/movies/index2.shtml

All images under Creative Commons

• Bank note on title page - image by Flickr user nataliej

• Tiger Woods losing sponsorship - http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/nov/25/tiger-woods-sponsorship - image by Flickr user ATIS547

• Woolworths - image by Flickr user mrlerone• Clock by ToniVC• Thanks to Gary Simmons & Danny O’ Callaghan

for “vibrant hub” or “dead heart” CBD slides

All images under Creative Commons

• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/lidl-and-aldi-see-sales-soar-amid-economic-downturn-853614.html - image by Flickr user ariel.chico

• Information Commons – Alan Parkinson• Bayards Cove, Dartmouth – Alan Parkinson• Shillpages for “The End”• DS and belongings: Artzy.viva