I’ve wanted to play with the freeware Wink for a long time. It’s an application that allows you to produce flash tutorials. Very easy to use and produces a nice end product, it is just as good as commercial products I have seen. Sadly, the audio application doesn’t seem great, despite trying on both my laptop and desktop, the audio result is less than stunning; I only brought my microphone a couple of weeks ago! I’m wondering whether it would be more fruitful recording in Audacity and then importing. Despite this, it is a brilliant application and may be very useful in developing tutorials for both staff and students, here is my first attempt about saving and converting video from ‘You Tube’. Yes, I was trying to be serious but ended up sounding dull.
Over the holidays I have become slightly addicted by Radio 4, whilst listening to Woman’s hour, don’t ask why, there was an interesting article on women in the Antarctic. The interviewer asks the women about their time working at Halley, the British Antarctic Survey’s base. There is a nice webcam of the station. If you want to listen to the interview, you can download it here, under Wednesday. Continue reading ‘Women in the Antarctic’
I’ve just finished Ranulph Fiennes’ biography of Captain Scott, very good it is as well! Especially the last chapter, where Fiennes challenges the modern day critics of Scott and asks them not to judge the man using today’s value system. It was interesting to read how Scott became not only a national hero, but a piece of propaganda, to inspire Soldiers in their efforts during the First and then the Second World War. It worries me that the English have such a condition for demeaning their national heroes. Continue reading ‘Antarctic Journeys in Google Earth’
Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze! has a nice post about mapping Springfield. There is a great link to a map of Springfield. It reminded me that Regina Monologues, the episode where the Simpsons visit the UK, might be an interesting starting point for considering what consititutes British culture and identity. How others see us?
You may have noticed on the right hand bar, the above has appeared!
I have set up a del.icio.us account, which is a kind of online depository for your favourite web links, so that you can view them even when you are away from your computer; but it does also offer a chance for collaboration, hopefully saving time. Continue reading ‘Pilot Collaboration Web Links via Del.icio.us’
Noel (Cullompton, England) has sent me (Nottingham, England) a Google Earth file that allows you to view the RSS feed of this blog in Google Earth. Noel’s article provides the necessary links to produce your own files. I tried it and succeeded with ease! Why the place names? Well, these are used to ‘tag’ the feed to Google Earth.
This is the Radical Gography Pilot Blog, aimed at students and teachers, interested in the development and teaching of, the OCR Pilot GCSE Geography course. We welcome comments from all interested parties.
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