Still on a blogging holiday but wrote this before Christmas, so if this goes to plan it should be published on Boxing Day. I’ve now updated Radical Geography to include my top five favourite resources and a nearly complete weather and climate section. I have also added some other content, but you’ll have to do a bit of exploring to find it. 
My aim is to add one new resource for each day of next year, so it will be a long process. When I’ve completed sections I will announce it via the blogs. I’m enjoying working through my content to put what I feel have been my most effective resources together, sometimes resources can be too personal and just work for the individual or the class they were devised for, so I can’t vouch for their quality or whether they will have a use in your classroom.
See you in the New Year.
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Published at December 24, 2007
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Santa is on his way… he’s presently in Tajikistan, you can track him via NORAD.
Recent video of Santa in China. Just make sure you’re in bed before he comes.
I’m taking a holiday rest, so see you in the New Year.
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I’ve now reorganised by web projects. My personal domain name will be the gateway to my various projects. I’ve also now sorted the layout of Radical Geography and will begin to update the content in the New Year. The Pilot Blog will announce new resources for Key Stage 4 and Share Geography will announce new content for key Stage 3. So please check your RSS feeds. I imagine in the future there will be a Key Stage 5 blog for the new sixth form, if we get a cohort together. Radical Geography and the gateway now have a custom Google search engine. In the meantime I have produced a Top-Ten downloads page for 2007 ,as a pre-Christmas present to colleagues, some surprisingly resources were favourites.
Continue reading ‘Radical Update…’
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Nice article from the Daily Telegraph to read in readiness for the Cultural Geography module.
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Year 11 will be finishing their final piece of Coping with Floods coursework over the holidays, Ho, Ho, Ho.
There is a nice photo story on the B.B.C. about British help in rebuilding one area effected by the tsunami, in your focus country Sri Lanka. The village is called Hampton, this would make a nice little mini-study within your storyboard. Why did Sri Lanka need such help? Remember to use development statistics to help explain your thinking.
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Google Earth has now updated its imagery of the continent, the new higher resolution images just confirm the isolation and extreme nature of the environment. Worth a peak, look out for Nunataks, Glaciers, Ice Shelves, Pack Ice and Pancake Ice.
Japan has also decided not to hunt 50 humpback whales in the Southern Ocean for ’scientific’ reasons, but will still hunt a 1000 whales of different species. This is despite a moratorium on hunting. Another example of how our extreme environment is used/exploited by humans.
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Published at December 20, 2007
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I’ve now updated the teaching and learning newsletter page , as well as uploading our newsletters for the first and second part of the Autumn half-term. Autumn issue part.1 has been edited to remove the personal details of new staff. All documents are now PDF files.
Thank you for all those that have contributed, including our external colleagues.
We are happy at K.H.C.T.C. to have contributions from external colleagues that will inform our practice.
As always, any comments are welcome.
Have a happy holiday season and a successful New Year.
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Published at December 20, 2007
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Sorry about the lack of posting, over the last two weeks I’ve been suffering from an illness, which is why I was absent for one.
Best wishes for the Christmas holiday, wishing you all a successful and happy New Year.
Finally, a quick Christmas question… what has the image got to do with Christmas? Click on the image to find out.
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This is the one that Tom has talking about, Extreme environments advertising a well known beer, on the website they describe the environment as Arctic Tundra, but it clearly has echoes of Captain Scott.
Drink Wise.
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Your last piece of coursework in this unit is to produce a storyboard in PowerPoint focusing on a case study of a coastal flood, which effected a L.E.D.C. country. You need to research the 2004 Asian Tsunami and its impact on Sri Lanka. Adam asked me whether I will put together a support page, I will attempt to do this when my head stops spinning over the coming days. There is a wealth of good material on the event on the net, especially photographs, so I expect to see some well annotated diagrams and images, please remember to keep a bibliography.
Remember in this piece you will need to explain the causes, impacts and responses to the flooding, but you will also need to explain why Sri Lanka ,as a L.E.D.C. country,would take longer to recover. A good way of doing this is through development indicators.
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