This document summarizes an online presentation about teaching geography. It discusses ideas like living geography, web tools for teaching, co-constructivism, and using social media. It also provides examples of online resources and activities for teachers, including making magazine covers and movie posters to engage students.

1. “ the only way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas...” Winston Churchill

2. Writing (& Reading) the Earth Curriculum Making in Geography Image by Psychogeographer under CC license

3. Alan Parkinson Geographical Association

4. My contact details alanparkinsonatthega [email_address] @GeoBlogs GeoBlogs

5. http://www.mapcrunch.com Takes you somewhere random…

6. The structure for the session Living Geography – what is it, and why & how should you be teaching it ? 2. Web tools to aid pedagogy and resource creation 3. You are not alone: co-constructivism and your PLN... 4. Play-time... Image: John Lyon

7. A challenge for later #cheesefilms “ The Gouda the Bad and the Ugly” “ The Edambusters”

8. Study Support Website launched 2001 Total visitors 2001: around 1000 Total visitors 2010: 600 000 http://www.geographypages.co.uk

9. #PGCSEtips Tim Handley: student at UEA last year Used Twitter to collect advice Produced free online download, which can also be bought as a hard copy http://bit.ly/pgceguide

11. 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 & ‘curriculum making’

12. Living Geography: embraces young people’s geography and experiences is current and future oriented is local but set in wider ( global ) contexts raises questions of change, sustainability and development

14. Free OS maps (last year…)

15. With thanks to Joe Dale http:// joedale.typepad.com (MFL – embrace cross-curricular !!)

16. There are only ever choices.... When choices are made and accepted by a sufficient number of teachers, they tend to become 'common sense' (Castree, 2005) The choices YOU make are all important !

17. Choice of image… With thanks to Neil Adam

18. Which ‘disaster’ ?

19. Choice of starter / stimulus “only one chance to make a first impression…” The winning lottery ticket is number… Before that What is the prize ? Do you want to win the prize ?

20. Real lottery Winners being announced on Jan 26 The prize ?

21. DARTS D irected A ctivities R elating to T ext

23. Mission Explore

24. In pairs or threes...

25. YPG curriculum : – be planned through dialogue: between teachers, young people, teacher educators and academic geographers – draw from young people's everyday experiences – extend the way that young people are involved in, and can directly influence, the curriculum – emphasise dialogic pedagogies – enable young people to use their capacity to think geographically when encountering the world

27. Online CPD There are 80 modules of CPD on the GA website I have written 2 units on the theme of FOOD Also written an online unit on developing GIS Some units for Primary colleagues Additional ideas in forthcoming textbook series

28. Resource Updates Which city has recently suffered major flooding ?

29. BECTa ICT KS4 Project 23 ICT projects on GA website http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/ks4ict/projectideas

30. Young Peoples Geographies http://www.youngpeoplesgeographies.co.uk

31. Journals – online for download

34. Teachers’ TV : hands up who watches ? Weather & Climate: KS3

35. Functional Skills New in 2010

36. Publications GCSE & ‘A’ level too… Am editing 2 ICT toolkits for publication later in 2011

37. GA Merchandise

39. The Networked teacher.... Then and Now (Alec Couros)

41. Twitter 140 character limit @GeoBlogs Over 900 followers… Following over 200

42. Every teacher should also be a learner. The “Social Web” makes this possible at a time and a place to suit everybody. This is where your PLN comes in...

43. http:// geographical.ning.com Almost 1800 members – FREE to join Also a dedicated network for PGCE / NQT / GTP

45. Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Search View photos Info Photos Boxes What’s on your mind? Share Name Information Friends 10hrs ago View videos Older posts Wall Recent Activity Ads Groups Add a picture here Add personal information here Who would they be friends with? Last status update here What would they be typing now? What have they been doing on Facebook? Two interactions with friends What groups are they in? What ads would be targeted to them?

46. Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Search View photos Info Photos Boxes What’s on your mind? Share Name Information Friends 10hrs ago View videos Older posts Wall Recent Activity Ads Groups

47. Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Search View photos Info Photos Boxes I'm being walked on again  Share Snowdon Information Friends Glyders Tryfan I’m feeling on top of the world!!! 10hrs ago View videos Older posts Wall Recent Activity Hey Snowdon, thanks for the add how's things going over there ?? Yeah, I know, I am fed up of seeing that train! Ads Groups Llyn Ogwen I'm Snowdon, a mountain in North Wales. I’m 1,085 metres high. I’ve even got a nature reserve around me!!! The Snowdon Wildlife Reserve. By Zoe

48. http:// wordle.net Beautiful tag clouds

49. Flickr Toys Picture Collages Trading Cards Photo Mosaics CD covers Motivator poster Magazine covers Movie posters Picture frames Captions...

50. John Davitt’s RAG : Literacy version... Excel / App / Google Gadget http://legwork.pbworks.com/w/page/16185296/FrontPage

52. Knock Knock Who’s there ?

53. A DOCTOR ?

54. A MATHS TEACHER ?

55. A BALLET DANCER ?

56. A SHEEP SHEARER ?

57. A GEOGRAPHY TEACHER ?

58. “ Super-imposing digital technologies on to existing pedagogical practices is like asking the man with a red flag who used to walk in front of the motor car to start jogging…” Lord David Puttnam January 2011

59. Some options* for you for this session... 1. Sign up for the GA NING 2. Explore ‘A Different View’ and the lesson ideas that have been provided for teachers to adopt and adapt... 3. Visit the BIG HUGE LABS website http:// bighugelabs.com/flickr / * - students like alternative formats for homework and project tasks

60. Making a magazine cover / poster Go to http:// bighugelabs.com/flickr / Choose Magazine cover or Movie Poster Decide on the cover image, save to your desktop and then upload it to the site. Decide on the description / taglines / title etc. for your chosen format, and fill in the relevant boxes (don’t fill them all in as the poster will look too cluttered. Once you are fairly happy, press This will show you the magazine as it looks at the moment. Look at the placement and colour of the text. Can you see it clearly on the cover. Click EDIT COVER (just underneath the image) and you can make those changes. You can keep doing this as often as you like, but as soon as you press SAVE, the cover will be saved and can’t be changed. Save the image into the folder that your teacher will tell you. Get a blank powerpoint slide and paste the image into the middle of the slide. Use AUTOSHAPES for arrows and some text boxes to explain your choice of image and labels. Don’t forget audience / purpose

61. Age group: KS3 geography (Year 7) Starter activity – 15” and discussion Based on an image

62. Cheesefilms ??

63. Feedback time....

64. http://www.shillpages.com/movies/index2.shtml