Workshop given at 2009 GA Annual Conference

1. Textbooks: everyone’s guilty pleasure David Rogers, Head of Geography, GA Secondary Phase Committee Sponsored by Folens

2. ‘ Textbook’ In one sentence, summarise your opinion of textbooks to someone next to you.

3. What is your opinion of textbooks? The source of all evil The best invention in the world 0 10

4. http://www.wordle.net 64 responses

5. 68 responses

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7. ‘ We should be clear that we have no doubts that textbooks have a key place in teaching and learning’ Widdowson and Lambert, P149,Secondary Geography Handbook, GA, 2006

8. http://flickr.com/photos/fatmandy/171920679/sizes/l/

9. http://flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/391672948/

10. Context

11. PLTS

12. Textbook? Blogs? Nings? Twitter?

14. Spot the topic! What do you think the following quotes are about? ‘ I was utterly blown away by the boldness of the proposal….. Do it! Do it! Do it!’ ‘ Where will all the cars park? In the sea?’ ‘ One man’s dream is another man’s nightmare ’ ‘ Breathtaking, stunning, grotesque, carbuncle, monstrosity or blot on the landscape – all types of description for the new proposal’ ‘ In theory, magnificent. In reality, totally ridiculous!’ ‘ I do not think it will ever happen, but thanks for the laugh!’ ‘ Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!’ ‘ The plan has nothing to do with the good of people of Portsmouth, but to satisfy the greed of a few who don’t even live in our city’

15. Does Pompey really need to move? Find Fratton Park on the OS map Why does the stadium need to move? Use map and other information. 5 Mins

17. Map detectives: are there any alternative sites?

19. How do I go about a geographical enquiry? Publish Produce your work Select the best Information Gather Information Ask questions Start Here Who? Where? When? Why? What? How? What do you need to find out? How will you present the information? BIAS For and Against Audience PowerPoint, Publisher, Poster, Oral, Visual, Play, podcast, Video, Report.. Improve http://flickr.com/photos/milivoj Evaluate Questions answered? Criteria met? No Yes

22. 2. Use Twitter to make case studies ‘Living Geography’ www.twitter.com

23. 3. Transforming text www.comicbrush.com

24. 4. Supporting

25. What on earth? Geographical Detectives www.flickr.com 4. Supporting

26. 5. Stretching

27. Enquiry Question? How easy is it for humans to reduce their environmental impact? Calculate own footprint as baseline. Eco-pledge The reason I need to reduce my footprint as I need to be less dependent on other places. To do this I will turn off all electrical equipment when not being used and take less baths Action Keep a weblog / diary Link findings back to textbook space-time activity how easy will it be to achieve my ideal / nightmare world? Why?

28. http://daviderogers.blogspot.com/2007/01/year-7-carbon-footprint-project.html

29. 6. Prove it!

31. Claim Positive or Negative about Mexicans migrating to the USA? Prove it! My extra information The average American earns eight times more money than the average Mexican each year Resource D - Photo Photo suggests that Border Patrol use force to stop Mexicans crossing the border. Mexican illegal immigration is a bad thing

32. Who are these people? Why are they armed? Are Mexican migrants armed and dangerous? How do I know that they are the US Border Patrol?

33. 7. Update http://gower-sos.blogspot.com/

34. 8. Creating a sense of place

38. 9. So What? Development Indicator Mexico USA So What? Connective, group of people Infant Mortality Rate ( www.worldbank.org ) 22 / 1000 live births 6 / 1000 live births More babies die in Mexico so health care facilities may be poor. This may be because there is a high level of unemployment so less taxes. Mexicans want to migrate to the USA to have a better chance of their future families surviving Infant Mortality Rate ( https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ ) 18 / 1000 live births 6 / 1000 live births

39. 10. Textbook Transformation

40. http://www.guardian.co.uk http://www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk

41. Activity

42. Guilty Pleasure? http://www.wordle.net

43. References and acknowledgements Images: From Flickr users made available under a Creative Commons Licence ( http://creativecommons.org/ ) Ontorio Textbook: juco's photostream Wheel image: FatMandy's photostream Toolbox Image: Jim Frazier's photostream ComicBrush Images: Perfect Reef - Erwin Kodiat's photostream ; Cloudy Reef – World Resources Institute Staff’s photostream ; Reef Tractor – hyper7pro’s photostream ; Beach hotel – World Resources Institute Staff’s photostream Sick diver: Nataraj Metz's photostream References: Widdowson, J and Lambert, D (2006) Using Geography Textbooks, In Balderstone, D (Ed.) Secondary Geography Handbook , Geographical Association, Sheffield Acknowledgements PLTS Umbrella – Luke Mulhall, Curriculum Leader ICT, Priory School Specialist Sports College Wordle Images created using http://www.wordle.net and used under a Creative Commons Attribution Licnece Textbook scans – Geography@Work