Experiences in and out of the Geography classroom

Resource: Water Utilization Starter Image

Richard Allaway — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:34:18 +0000

What If Everybody in Canada Flushed At Once? via @GeoBlogs via @pruned.

Presentation Skills Version 2.0

Richard Allaway — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:02:24 +0000

Simon has updated his excellent Presentation Skills presentation hosted on Slideshare to Version 2.0. A must see for teachers using PowerPoint in the classroom!

Presentation Skills Version2 0

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Date for your Diary: 25th September 2010 - ICT for Humanities

Richard Allaway — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:33:05 +0000

Christmas Season's Over | kozumel

I will be leading an InThinking ICT for Humanities one day workshop in London on Saturday 25th September 2010.

Outline details can be found here. Feedback from last year's workshop can be found here.

What am I teaching this week?

Richard Allaway — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:53:43 +0000

Grüne Ampelmann | sk8geek

A delayed posting this week. Sunday saw me returning late from Berlin having been leading an InThinking course over the weekend. Monday evening I was playing catch up with emails and admin. A relatively normal couple of weeks at school - marking and report writing before going to Morocco at the start of the Easter break on a fieldtrip.

This week ...

Year 8 are finishing looking at Desertification. Finishing case studies produced using Google Presentations and then answering a extended response question on the case study they didn't produce.

Year 9 are starting a rather rapid journey through the French Revolution. I keep my 'history' lesson organised on the geographyalltheway.com wiki. The main source of my resources for teaching history is the excellent activehistory.co.uk.

Year 10 continue to look at Population. This week they will focus upon population policies by using the 'More Babies, please' resource on geographyalltheway.com.

Year 12 are doing some finishing off, reflecting and concept mapping on the recently covered topics of Risk and Risk Assessment and Disasters.

Year 13 will finish reviewing thier mock exam performance and then start a review/revision of the Globalization optional theme using the 'IB Geography Syllabus to Annotate' on the IB Geography Revision webpage.

Do you teach a small IB Geography Class?

Richard Allaway — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:47:09 +0000

I'm looking for teachers/educators who have very small IB Geography classes.

I'm trying to set up a support project for students in classes with a limited number of students - to facilitate discussion between the students and benefit the breadth of their knowledge, understanding and experience. It may also take a bit of pressure off you!

If you are teaching the 'new' syllabus and have a class of around 3 or less students and are interested in getting involved in a free online project - please get in contact with me.

I already have one school/class very interested and am looking for other classes to join them so the students have others to discuss issues with.

With interested classes this project could be up and running within the next 7 days!

Flickr Image Source

Resource: World Disasters Report 2009

Richard Allaway — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:42:26 +0000

The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies World Disaster Report is available online here.

It includes content that is useful for IB Geography teachers covering the Hazards and Disasters Optional Theme.

IB Geography Flickr Groups

Richard Allaway — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:03:24 +0000

Networked Teacher Diagram - Update | courosa

Flickr is an image and video sharing service. Free accounts are available with a 100MB upload limit per month. Full accounts cost $24.95 per year.

Once you have uploaded images to Flickr they can be added to groups. Separate groups have been created for the different IB Geography units to facilitate the sharing of images that might be useful for the teaching of the IB Geography syllabus content.

Please only add images that you own to the groups and that you are happy for teachers/educators to use in their classrooms and on their online teaching resources.

IB Geography Diigo Groups

Richard Allaway — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:57:27 +0000

Networked Teacher Diagram - Update | courosa

Diigo is a social bookmarking service which allows you to store and share your bookmarks/favourites online. As it is an online service your bookmarks can be accessed, added to and edited from any computer with an internet connection..

Diigo groups have been set up for all the different units of the IB Geography syllabus. You don't need a Diigo account to view the shared bookmarks. With a Diigo account you can contibute to and comment upon this growing respoistory of online resources.

Links to all the IB Geography Diigo Groups can be found here.

What am I teaching this week?

Richard Allaway — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:20:28 +0000

A delayed posting this week due to a busy half term and the pressures of getting this week's lessons planned and resources. Last week I was in Hong Kong, this week I am teaching as 'normal' and then this Friday, Saturday and Sunday I am leading a workshop for InThinking in Berlin.

This week ...

Year 8 will be looking at Desertification and using Google Presentation to produce a collaborative case study.

Year 9 have finished off the Weather and Climate unit by looking at By the time you are 65 ... They are now starting a rather quick journey through the French Revolution. I keep my French Revolution ideas on a wiki here - it's mainly based upon the excellent resources on activehistory.co.uk.

Year 10 will be looking at Population Pyramids and More babies, please.

Year 12 will be styudying Hazard Event Prediction and Disasters.

Year 13 will get their mock exams back and finish the IB Geography course by looking at Sustainable Management of Tourism.

Resource: Thinking Geography Presentation

Richard Allaway — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:05:30 +0000

Another great presentation from Simon Jones shared using Slideshare:

Thinking Geography

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