"Look at it this way"

There was plenty of "Look at it this Way" running through the two seminars that I presented at the SAGT Conference 2010. This was the 6th year that I have been up to SAGT, and I'd be happy to come up next year again - I'll probably go with the GA stand even if I don't offer a seminar... The weather was mixed, and the journey up was not without its delays either, but the actual day of the event was bright and cold, and managed to get some nice pictures taken in the evening, as above - looking along the Clyde from the Crowne Plaza hotel and SECC. My presentation was part of the overall conference programme, which included a number of familiar names from previous events, and from English geography circles... I arrived the night before the conference, and over to Hutcheson's Grammar school via a jammed M8 to set up the GA stand. The school was a nice mix of ancient and modern, with a wonderful church for the keynotes. Our hotel was next to the SECC, and ...

Always plenty of landscape inspiration and mapping ideas to flesh out some of the ideas in the toolkit series. And what an issue it is... It has 2 articles by me in it, which is always a bonus... One on the new DIGIMAP service for schools, and one on Amanda Hone's Brown Sign blog , which I have mentioned here before. Also some good ideas from Jeff Stanfield on adding a sporting feel to lessons, and details on the ESRI / GA GIS courses running in cities across the country. Remember that the journal no longer comes into schools in paper form. You can view an e-copy, or download a PDF for reading offline (or printing out) at the MAPPING NEWS page.

The latest issue of Teaching Geography is now available to download by those who subscribe to it.... It features a range of inspirational articles on the theme of place by Mark Jones, Eleanor Rawling, Becky Kitchen, Margaret Roberts and others... Articles range from a teacher visit to Greenland, to the urban re-branding and renaissance of Scarborough... To add a subscription to your GA membership, or to join (and gain access to the last five years of journals in electronic format) click the JOIN THE GA link. PLACE is a big theme in Look at it this Way, and the ideas in this journal could feed in to several of the lessons. Exploring landscapes through poetry is a great way to draw students in, and Mark Jones has provided some thoughtful analysis on this particular tool...