There are a number of Geography blogs springing up at the moment, I find reading blogs a useful tool for professional development, for student readers its a great way of gaining a little extra knowledge and to see what other students are doing. Why not set up your own personal blog? It doesn’t have to be about Geography…

Most of us are indebted to Alan Parkinson, Mr P of GeographyPages fame, I believe he lead the way, his original Geoblog and links to other interesting examples are here. I remember when I started teaching, there were few very good geography sites on the web and Alan’s was like a little flame in a very dark cave. (Present please ).

Noel Jenkins has started a collaborative blog for Somerset Geographers, an idea I’m taking active interest in, perhaps a way forward for collaboration between Ilkeston Geographers. He has already put up some nice little ideas and tips for using blogs, and recommends this one, he didn’t really have a choice now I can get him live on MSN! It also has some further links to other great Geography bloggers.

Another example is GeographyPCS, the student blog of Portchester Community School, there are some interesting lesson resources also available. Mark Batchelor has recently redesigned his school Geography webpage and has also developed a new blog. Mark is making effective use of Slide Share.

Rich Allaway has also produced a blog for his IB and IGCSE International Geography students, an interesting course and supported by a very good website as well. I notice that as I write this Rich has started a list of new blogs created this year on SLN.

Plenty to get on with then…

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