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2. Living Geography Alan Parkinson Secondary Curriculum Development Leader Geographical Association

3. http://wordle.net

4. Free for educators http://biz.animoto.com/education/faq.html [email_address] The video is available: embedded in Living Geography shortly...

8. Born here....

9. A life lived geographically....

10. Lived here, here and here....

11. http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames

12. Seeing the wood AND the trees

15. KEY CONCEPTS IN GEOGRAPHY

19. Student Experiences Geography: the subject Teacher Choices Underpinned by Key Concepts Thinking Geographically Which learning activity ? Does this take the learner beyond what they already know ? Living Geography

20. What is the ‘Geography’ that YOUR students are living ? Geographers do not just see a place as an ‘objective thing’ in the world that can be described and explained as they build up geographical knowledge. ‘ Place’ is also experienced on a personal and deeply emotional level. Eleanor Rawling

21. GeoBlogs (2003)

22. Net WORK s

23. New behaviours

24. What does a day lived ‘geographically’ look like ?

29. How does this link to curriculum development ? New curriculum development Updates of existing documents Teacher innovation Action Plan for Geography

30. Living Geography captured....

31. Today’s Workshops Living Geography Climate Change Ruth Totterdell Very much ‘living’ geography. An evolving issue. We are all producers and consumers. Interconnectedness.

32. “ I would like to live long enough to see the effects of global warming. I’ve got an inside tip that it’s all a load of crap!” Homer Simpson "Global warming is a greater danger than terrorism. We should have a war on climate change" Stephen Hawking

33. Today’s Workshops Living Geography GCSE: living or dying ? Justin Woolliscroft Very much ‘living’ geography. Crucial stage for students and teachers. The ‘end’ of school geography.

34. New specifications...

35. Today’s Workshops Living Geography The World at our fingertips... Jeff Stanfield Very much ‘living’ geography. New approaches to ‘old’ topics – digital media literacy Engaging geographies. Exciting new media for assessments.

36. Today’s Workshops Living Geography Everyday Geographies Alan Parkinson Very much ‘living’ geography. Looking at current issues, and linking the curriculum to relevant events. Topicality – flexible curriculum.

37. Put your best geography head on... Image by disco~stu (Flickr)

38. The Geographical Association “ furthering the learning and teaching of geography”

39. How is your geographical eye ?

40. Living Geography: the blog... http://livinggeography.blogspot.com