norfolk 2005
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Presentation used back in 2005 at Norfolk network meeting. Thanks to all teachers mentioned here: the usual suspects even back then...TRANSCRIPT
ExICTing ideas in Geography
Alan Parkinson
Head of Geography
King Edward VII School
AIMS• To introduce a range of websites / ideas
which are hopefully new to you.• To suggest ways of using these
websites / ideas with groups of students• To provide a background to this work /
justification / link to ‘best practice’…
STARTER: Add ticks to the list of sitesFull stop..
What can ICT do for you ?
Resources
ImagesIdeas
Data
Maps
FriendsFreebies
IMAGESA picture, photograph, graphic, diagram or map…..
The perceptions of places that are inside our heads that derive directly or indirectly from our experiences.
The messages given by a single source, or collection of sources.
Quotes on first few slides by Chris Durbin…
What does this
image show ?
http://www.geographyphotos.com
http://www.geographyphotos.com
Things to do with an Image
Labelling
Sharing
Assembling
Enquiry tasks
Step into the photo… Make a
new window
Enquiry questions
Why do we use images ?
• To improve sense of place
•To improve perceptions of landscape
• To improve enquiry skills
• To improve visual literacy & critical literacy
GeoTags
• Upload a picture to Flickr• Download a few scripts from the
GeoBloggers site.• Tag the image with its location• Visit the GeoBloggers site and see
the photos on a map of the area.• For an example: see Noel Jenkins’
Farm enquiry
Example: Orway Farm Enquiry
Rasterbator• Takes an image and transforms it into a large
format image for printing and assembling in PDF format.
• Can also do this with pupils…• Take an image and cut it up – give each pupil
part of the image for them to reproduce using some artistic media – stick them back together (Rolf Harris used similar idea on a large scale recently…)
PICTURE REVEAL
Picture by Edwin Chew: courtesy SLN.ORG.UK/GEOGRAPHY
Picture Reveal Exercise
Idea for developing this further…• Have bigger and smaller squares
worth a number of points – aim is to guess the picture with the fewest number of points expended revealing the squares.
6 x 6
Need
- Picture board
- 2 dice
- A story starter….
Mission Possible
MISSION POSSIBLE!
Your mission…..
to draw fully annotated sketches of the features
shown before the end of the music
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
Starter or
Plenary
http://www.geograph.co.uk
Get involved !A lot of Norfolk is still there for the taking !
http://www.worldofexperience.com
http://www.picasa.com
Goes through hard drive, and organises all images into folders by date.
COLLABORATIONS
Location : Bawdsey Suffolk
Watch how the land submits to the sea
The flags were ‘planted’ on the cliff top on 15.01.05
http://www.ifever.org.uk/camera
Day 1 – the flag ‘pitchers’ give a sense of scale to the scene
How has the cliff been eroded ?
This sequence of images shows how the erosion proceeded between the 15th and the
27th February
Click to advance or use the right and left arrow keys
Creating ‘virtual’ landscapes
All explained at Juicy Geography
Free Resources
‘My favourite price…’
• Video clips – Daniel Ellison’s site – “Learning through Windows”
Just back from an excellent BBC Video making course. Keep an eye
on the BBC 21CC website.
Source: Learning through Windows.
Source: Learning through Windows.
A Virtual Window
Old Harry – This is your Life• Video from Dan Ellison plus ‘clone’ tool
Free Resources
http://www.barcodeart.com/art/digital.html
DEBATE – Who wins ?Decide with http://www.googlefight.com
http://www.tonycassidy.co.uk
My World is a Geography World
http://www.juicygeography.co.uk
Noel Jenkins
http://www.geointeractive.co.uk
David Rayner
Satellite Images for FREE
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
Name the free Picture editing and filing software produced by Google ?
Suggest 4 things that you could do with a simple image of a geographical feature, or
a digital image taken in the local area ?
GAMESHOW GEOGRAPHY
• Who wants to be a Geography millionaire ?
• Bruce’s ‘Play your rivers right’•
http://www.juicygeography.co.uk
MIGRATION POWERPOINT
For your more ‘active’ learners…
Coal is discovered Coal is discovered
Coal is discovered
Fertile farmland
River
Fertile farmland
Dense forest
High mountains
Desert
Coal mine develops Coal mine develops
Town grows bigger
Fertile farmland
River
Fertile farmland
Dense forest
High mountains
Desert
Coal mine grows Coal runs out
Town grows biggerMore jobs
Fertile farmland
River
Fertile farmland
Trees cut down for farmland
High mountains
Desert
Coal begins to run out
Coal mine closes
University established
in town
Fertile farmland
River floods
Fertile farmland
Trees cut down for farmland
High mountains
Desert
Coal begins to run out
No jobs
Town grows bigger
Machines mean fewer workers
are required
River
Fertile farmland
Soil erosion due to deforestation
High mountains
Desert
Coal runs out No jobs
More jobs and opportunities
Machines mean fewer workers
are required
River floods again
Machines mean fewer workers are required
Area flooded for hydroelectric power scheme
High mountains
Oil is discovered in desert
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov
Free – but LARGE – download…
Some screen shots – recognise these places ?
‘Virtual’ Fieldwork
Check Andrew Stacey’s site as an example of excellent coastal images
http://www.stacey.peak-media.co.uk
Or this example from the DORSET COAST
Need a digital camera, base map (plenty of online sources) and Powerpoint / Word
(+ TIME…)
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Map reproduced with kind permission of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1
3
46
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Click on numbers or move mouse over map to reveal ‘hot spots’
91011
1213
1415
1617
Lulworth Cove
A
C
B
Click letters to view detailed geology of the Cove
Return to main slide show
Chalk
Purbeck beds
Wealden sands
Portland Stone
Portland Stone
ChalkWealden sands
Purbeck beds Gree
nsand
Army firing ranges
Click flag
Portland Stone
Purbeck beds
Wealden sandsGreensan
d
And actual fieldwork ?
• Briefings for fieldwork• Risk Assessment – can identify
hotspots• Involve pupils in
http://www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk
Free Resource Pack complete with CD Rom by sending an e-mail request to
the website above
Channel 4 offering free CLIPBANK DVD
Use of ICTJustification for use of ICT in education• Social• Vocational• Pedagogical• Catalytic• Cost-effectivenessWays that ICT can support teaching and learning• Enhance geographical enquiry skills• Provide access to wide range of information sources &
geographical knowledge• Deepen the understanding of environmental and spatial
relationships• Provide experience of alternative images of people,
place & environment• Enable the consideration of the wider range of ICT on
people, place& environment
Source: Twells (1996) & Hassell (1996)
QUIZMOQuizmo costs £7 from http://www.thelagoongroup.com/intelliquest
Books cost £6 each.
Each book has unique code.
Buy 1 and work out the code, and then produce your own questions - add to a powerpoint and
Contribute image(s) to Geograph
Investigate the mysteries from SLN Geography
Contribute a resource to
GeoInteractive
Take some digital pictures of your own home
area…
NEXT STEPS
Get to grips with an Interactive whiteboard
Think of using Excel to graph data collected by students
Think of using Excel
Think of using Excel
Think of using Excel
Think of using Excel
Final Suggestion• Royal Geographical Society• Innovative Geography Teaching
Grant• £800 to develop an idea of yours.
• Deadline for 2005 is September
• Simple A4 form to fill in: http://www.rgs.org
