six shiny new toys for suffolk

Six shiny new toys for Suffolk ....

Alan ParkinsonSecondary Curriculum Development Leader

Geographical Associationhttp://slideshare.net/geoblogs

Image by Alan Parkinson – Latitude festival entrance 2010 – CC llicensed

Image with thanks to Langwitches – similar to those produced by Alec Couros

1. Shape – Planet Mapper http://show.mappingworlds.com/world/

Fits nicely with Worldmapper... Gapminder (Hans Rosling at GA Conference)

Danny Dorling & Carl Lee’s Personal Geography of Injustice – YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/user/viewsoftheworld

2. New Iceland blog & images

http://niceiceland.wordpress.com

http://slideshare.net/geoblogs

3. Mission:Explorehttp://thegeographycollective.wordpress.com

"may just be the most revolutionary geography-related book ever published" - Geographical Magazine review

http://www.missionexplore.co.uk

4. Google Street View ™Travel by Approximationhttp://jennyodell.wordpress.com/travel-by-approximation/

Since April of 2009, I have been “traveling” the country via Google Street View, by photoshopping myself into screen shots and writing a travel narrative. In every day that I travel, I must have enough gas, stop for food, have a place to stay, and only drive as far as would be physically possible in a day. The

people and stories that I encounter along the way are from online reviews of restaurants that I eat at or hotels that I stay in, though I never look up

further information about a place unless I found it (visually) by wandering on Street View. While the travel is virtual, the feelings of discovery, novelty,

and shock that I have encountered on my trip have been as real as any I have ever had.

Start the lesson somewhere randomhttp://www.mapcrunch.com

http://www.mapcrunch.com/?p=18.886719,-96.942921,38.44,9.6,1

5. Vocaroo.comhttp://vocaroo.com/?media=vEuwWChxST0jiBNgt

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6. Twitter (@GeoBlogs)

SSAT Conference in Birmingham yesterday....#nc10Dylan Wiliam on AfL & feedbackhttp://globalcitizens.ssatrust.org.uk/ launchedJohn Davitt’s LEG:

http://legwork.pbworks.com/w/page/16185296/FrontPage

#eduwhitepaper discussions

PGCE Tips Survival Guide• Compiled by Tim Handley, primary PGCE at

UEA last year, and now working in a school near here...

• Grew from Twitter hashtag #pgcetips• Free PDF download for new teachers in your

department / school:http://classroomtales.com/pgce-survival-guide-pgcetips/

Includes an excellent article by... Me...

7: Your choices ??

http://livinggeography.blogspot.comhttp://www.geography.org.uk

a.parkinson@gmail.com