geogalot http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot geographyalltheway.com updates and my ICT in Geography education ramblings! Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:56:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en 43.7114021.160811http://www.geographyalltheway.com/http://www.geographyalltheway.com/assets/banners/wordpress_square_144.jpggeographyalltheway1217404http://www.feedburner.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with RojoSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with Live.com Year 7: What Geography? - http… http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/geographyalltheway/~3/341435575/ http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/07/21/year-7-what-geography-http/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:56:14 +0000 Richard Allaway http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/07/21/year-7-what-geography-http/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Year 7: What Geography? - http…", url: "http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/07/21/year-7-what-geography-http/" });]]> Year 7: What Geography? - http://tinyurl.com/6px76u

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I am trying to divide my ‘twits’.  I have set up a Twitter account called ‘geogalot‘ which I intend to use purely for updates to geographyalltheway.com - a sort of updates microblog.  I am keeping my ‘richardallaway‘ Twitter account for twits about me and what I am up to - this will still be geographical and technological - just not necessarily geographyalltheway.com related.

So - follow me!

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Printable World Maps - great site that I found the other day while looking for just a plain world map to colour in.  On the website you can generate maps of the world (with countries coloured in if you wish).  You can generate the images up to 6000 px wide - so the available image quality is high.

The example above is one I generated to show the nataionalities of the secondary students at the International School of Toulouse.

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]]> http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/07/07/printable-world-maps/feed/ http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/07/07/printable-world-maps/ Starter > Activities > Review http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/geographyalltheway/~3/327247575/ http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/07/05/starter-activitie-review/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:16:48 +0000 Richard Allaway http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/?p=20 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Starter > Activities > Review", url: "http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/07/05/starter-activitie-review/" });]]>

As I work my way through geographyalltheway.com over the coming academic year one of my main aims is going to be to try and make the site easier to use for other people.  I realise that sometimes I present resources in a way that I understand but may look odd to others!

One of the maim ways I plan to do this is break down webpages into Starter, Activities and Review.  This will hopefully give lessons more structure and encourage me to produce more useful introduction and review/summary/revision tasks.  I will be using the icons above to do this - anybody recognise them?

I have already started this process - an exmaple can be seen here: GCSE/ IGCSE Geography: Long Profiles and Valley Cross Sections.

As always - if you have any feedback on such things please get in contact either via comments here or via the ‘Contact me‘ button above.

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Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database. (Source)

There are various geography realted titles on Google’s digital database:

Geography: An Integrated Approach By David Waugh (Only a preview so it isn’t every page)

Planet Geography By Stephen Codrington - ‘the’ IB Geography Textbook

The Dictionary of Human Geography By Ronald John Johnston, Derek Gregory, Geraldine Pratt (Only a preview so it isn’t every page)

Understanding GCSE Geography By Ann Bowen, John Pallister (Only a preview so it isn’t every page)

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]]> http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/07/03/google-book-search-geography-titles/feed/ http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/07/03/google-book-search-geography-titles/ Search and Peel Script http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/geographyalltheway/~3/323864590/ http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/07/01/search-peel-script/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:56:53 +0000 Richard Allaway http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/?p=22 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Search and Peel Script", url: "http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/07/01/search-peel-script/" });]]> I do enjoy this time of year when I can get some jobs done on geographyalltheway.com - and the jobs haven’t necessarily got the urgency of lesson preparation.  I therefore tend to work on some of the sites aesthetics.

geographyalltheway.com - Online Geography Resources
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I have added a search bar at the top of each page - just below the site banner and menu strip.  Hopefully this will help people find content on geographyalltheway.com.  Please let me know if you have any issues with it.

geographyalltheway.com - Online Geography Resources
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I have also re-added the peel script (from Doug’s site) to geographyalltheway.com to ‘adverise’ geogalot.

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Where in the World? will return after the school holidays.

The first Where in the World? in September will be number 90!  I am always looking for ideas for locations to use.  It can’t be too difficult or nobody enters - also it can’t be too easy as nobody enters - it is a fine line to tread.  Any suggestions?

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It’s always nice to find mentions of or links to geographyalltheway.com.
Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) lists geographyalltheway.com as one of their ‘Useful IGCSE Geography Websites‘.

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]]> http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/06/27/cambridge-students/feed/ http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/06/27/cambridge-students/ Panoye - Upload and publish panoramas http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/geographyalltheway/~3/319940195/ http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/06/25/panoye-upload-and-publish-panoramas/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:31:08 +0000 Richard Allaway http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/?p=15 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Panoye - Upload and publish panoramas", url: "http://www.geographyalltheway.com/geogalot/2008/06/25/panoye-upload-and-publish-panoramas/" });]]>

Panoye is a bit of a cross between flickr and YouTube - in a way.

It allows you to upload panoramic images that you have taken and then embed them like a video/viewer into a blog or website.

I’m currently enjoying messing around with panoramic images using focus lock on ly digital camera and then using Abobe Photoshop Elements for Mac to stitch the images together. You can see one of my recent efforts above and another here.

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