nqt 2.0 (online) support networks for new geography teachers alan parkinson
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NQT 2.0(Online) support networks for
new geography teachersAlan Parkinson
NINTENDO DS GAME
“This game is very good but anyone looking to become a teacher and
thinking this may help is wrong, simply because you don’t learn very much and the lessons are very short....”
Comment on Amazon website
Also available Imagine Teacher:Fieldtrip
The past
Image by Flickr user Bu Yousef
“In Britain, teachers are for the most part too scattered and too busy to come together frequently for discussion. They require a medium through which they may readily
communicate with one another, exchange experiences and learn the progress that is
being made in method or in appliances in our own country and abroad.”
(Vol 1., No. 1, p. 1 of “The Geographical Teacher”)
James Herbertson, GA President
Link to professional development...
Dylan Wiliam
“In British schools, Geography has ever been a dull and uninteresting subject. It
has been a dreary recitation of names and statistics of no interest to the learner and of little use except, perhaps, in the sorting
department of the Post Office.”
(Vol 1., No. 1, p.4 of ‘The Geographical Teacher)
The present...
How do you currently keep in touch with former students who are now NQTs ?
Participation is not always a good thing: it can just create a cacophony.Collaboration is sustained and reliable only under conditions which allow for self organisation.
Charles Leadbeater
E-mail / Text groups
Ninghttp://geographynqt.ning.com
Tagging
Slideshare• Can upload documents of any kind and these
can then be viewed or downloaded• Documents can be tagged• Groups can be created and notifications
supplied when new content has been added
140 presentations of mine at http://slideshare.net/geoblogs
“hubness”
“twitter ye not”...@The_GA
@GeoBlogs
By Lauren
Idea: Tony Cassidy Teacher: Liz Smith, Brighton
iNQT
“There’s an app
for that...”
