Woodborough Road 1975
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Nice photo of St.Anns during the redevelopment. ‘Old Skool’ Geographers will know this as their example of inner city redevelopment.
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Archive for May, 2007
Woodborough Road 1975
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Is there geographical bias in the European Song Contest?
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
Serbia, mmm, interesting, the first non-English language song for ten years. My vote was for Ukraine. 
The United Kingdom ,through the B.B.C. ,is the biggest contributor financially to the contest, which is why we don’t have to go through the semi-finals.
Bad luck Scoot, flying nowhere it seems…
There is a continuing debate about political voting. I’ve produced a little task (Word.doc 113kb)that I’m be doing with Key Stage 3 students this week to investigate the claim. A nice little map skills task.
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U.K. webcams in Google Earth
Saturday, May 12th, 2007Shackleton’s Unfinished Journey
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Read in the Nottingham Evening Post about Peter Clark, a Nottingham man, who wants to attempt a journey to the South Pole, completing Shackleton’s original route. Peter is looking for sponsorship for the expedition, which will be in aid of the Make A Wish Foundation.
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Nottingham on the up!
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
A bit of a ‘my place’ post, Nottingham is currently on the leader board for a place on the national Monopoly board, currently in twelve as Vine Street, no sign of Derby! 
Also good news as Forest beat Yeovil in the first play-off match for promotion to the Championship, but sadly Derby beat Southampton in their Premier League promotion play-off. I’m predicting though that Derby will lose the return match with Southampton, they clearly want a the return of the East Midlands derby. ;)
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Not Geog but I like it!
Thursday, May 10th, 2007I do a secret line in R.E. lessons, this is for those of you that have just finished Religion and Human Relationships, great work from these students.
Hat Tip-Mr Milner
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Goodbye Tony…
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Not me the other Tony, well soon… has ten years really past that fast…
In the 1980’s and early 90’s the only Prime Minister I knew was Margaret Thatcher, your equivalent has been Tony Blair.
What is your reaction to the news?
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The cost of…
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007I had a quick look through the coursework today, people seem to be heading in the right direction, I have a bit of a worry about mapping, but we’ll discuss this Monday.
As part of people as consumers, you will investigating the impact of your purchasing power on other ‘places’ and peoples in the world, three main themes of the course here, interdependence (our links with other places), globalisation (particularly with reference to TNCS/Multinationals and their impact on our consumption patterns and consumer landscapes, but also their impact on the environment and the lives of people that produce their products.) and also sustainability (Can we keep up this rate of consumerism? Who does it impact upon?). We have already somewhat looked at this, with our decisions over energy sources impacting on Antarctica and our choice of Tesco over independant shops, changing the face of the High Street.
This topic though will focus more on individual choice. In preparation you might want to listen to the ‘Cost of’ series, from the B.B.C. documentary archive. The first is about the people who produce cotton for t-shirts, the second is about the production of coffee. You can download these for your MP3 players. Both are good examples of product webs.
Also check out the excellent revision movies on Geography Rocks, great work from Miss Sumner and students!
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New Coursework…
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007We’ve made a start, three titles, several fieldwork techniques, choose only two, prepare, collect evidence, write up evidence, draw a conclusion…. sounds a mission to me.
You all made a good start this afternoon, despite long-winded explanations from me.
After our choices we started some preparation…
- Remember you need to justify the techniques you have chosen, why will they be useful in answering your hypothesis?
- You also need to think carefully about your sampling, where, when and how? How are you going to ensure the data you collect is valid?
A more detailed write-up and support material online over the coming week.
Please remember to return fieldwork letters on Monday.
Our fieldwork will be the afternoon of the 22nd of May, the last week of term.
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