The document provides updates on various geography-related topics and resources including: 1) Announcements about an online professional network for geography teachers, a food crisis teaching unit seeking feedback, and new GCSE specifications on the GA website. 2) Information about live BECTa ICT projects, conferences on transforming topics and textbooks, and workshops on the food crisis. 3) An update that the KS3 Geography Ning site has over 400 members. 4) Brief mentions of other resources including young peoples' geographies, living geography conferences, free GIS training, KS3 curriculum documents, software for manipulating words, and praise for quality geography conferences.

1. GA UPDATE 10 minutes... From.... Now....

3. The GA NING: a “virtual professional network” http://geographical.ning.com Join and contribute...

5. BECTa ICT KS4 Project Now ‘live’ on GA website http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/ks4ict/projectideas

6. New GCSEs Part of the purpose of today.... Comparison on GA website SfE Conference 2009 Join the debate on the GA Ning GA Conference (SPC) “Transforming Tired Topics” “Textbooks: everyone’s guilty pleasure” “Doorstep geography” “Food Crisis workshop”

7. KS3 Ning http://ks3geography.ning.com Over 400 members

8. Young Peoples Geographies

9. Living Geography Conferences 2009

10. CfBT GIS If you can arrange a venue and get a group of teachers there, I will come along and do some free training... “ use varied resources, including maps, visual media and geographical information systems” KS3 PoS

11. Continuums FREE EXPENSIVE EASY TO USE COMPLICATED Often web based BASIC SOPHISTICATED Sometimes a ‘cut-down’ version

12. SAGT 08 Geography and the Media Slideshare: GeoBlogs

13. http://wordle.net TOY for manipulating words... AQA ‘A’ Spec by Noel Jenkins

14. http://wordle.net TOY for manipulating words... AQA ‘B’ Spec by Noel Jenkins

15. Why I love Geography David Rogers

16. Well done to Thorpe St. Andrew Quality Geography Conferences

17. [email_address] Action Plan for Geography 2