GCSE Geography Pilot Blog of Radical Geography
I can’t remember coming across this National Heritage site before, its aim is to record images of England’s built heritage, might be useful for considering what we think of as English in ‘My Place’ and the ‘Cultural Geography’ topic.
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Fancy visiting Porthemmet beach, (The original site seems to be down at the moment.) looks great and sounds great…
If you are planning a trip to Cornwall then be sure to visit Porthemmet Beach. It is regarded as Cornwall’s best beach by both the Cornish people and frequent visitors to the county.
Situated in north Cornwall, Porthemmet is the largest beach in the county. Due to an influx from the Gulf Stream, Porthemmet has very warm waters and looks more like a tropical paradise than a beach in the UK.
But is it all that it seems? To reveal all, read this article from the Metro and the Independent. There has been a heated debate about whether this is actually funny, given that tourism is a major part of Cornwall’s economy. I wonder if we could do the same for Ilkeston?
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You may remember a competition asking people to vote for their favourite U.K. cities on a new Monopoly board. Glad to announce that Nottingham came third… even happier to see Derby near free parking. 
You can view an example of the new board on the website. I wonder whether this tells us anytime about the appeal of the cities, or do the results represent the ability of the settlements to mobilise their virtual communities…. one for discussion.
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The K.H.C.T.C. student voice blog has now been set up by Mrs Robinson. Looking forward to seeing this develop over the coming months.
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Year 11, after a small, but necessary rant from me, on the repetitive theme of ‘important year’, we started our new topic, coping with floods. Remember that this year is worth 50% of the course, thank you for handing your work in on time. (with the exception of those that were away, their due date is Monday 1st of October.) I will be looking over your work at the weekend and I’ll also blog in more detail about our first lessons on our topic. The day was particularly bad, very tired and this morning managed to walk into Nottingham through a tornado…. I just thought it was a bit wet and windy, I was much more worried about my hair! Some more information about this event can be found at the B.B.C. .
Survived another injection at the doctor’s, course complete, and visited home, where I had the usual education debates with my soon to be starting a PhD brother…
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Interesting and emotive title for a story in the Guardian about the United Kingdom preparing claims on the ocean floors surrounding several of its island territories. One of the claims includes the Falklands Island, close to Antarctica, the reason, mineral resources, similar to the recent Russian actions in the Arctic. Futures anyone….
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There is now a page on the Geographical Association website about the project I have been involved with on webcams, some nice ideas already. I need to start writing up my parts now…
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Here are the statistics I promised from our holiday postcard display.
Our sample
Thanks to all, I’m now worrying about our carbon footprint…
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For both myself and Stringy, our blogs have both appeared in the appendix of a piece of research by Phil Wood on advances in e-learning in Geography, part of a new Geographical Association online publication. Thanks to Alan for the hat-tip.
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Year 10 Dry Valley task is now complete and can be found 
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