"Look at it this way"

One of the things launched at the GA conference was a questionnaire on fieldwork and outdoor learning which was developed by Philip Monk and other colleagues on the Fieldwork and Outdoor Learning Special Interest Group. There's no better way to see the landscape than by being out in it. If you had time to fill the survey in, that would help to inform the GA's future support for Fieldwork and Outdoor Learning. It's embedded below as well if you had time to help out. Loading... One of the really useful resources that I picked up at the conference was from the Field Studies Council, and is a guide to GIS. They also offer a range of CPD courses for teachers at a low price.

We have been using ArcGIS Online in school for several years now, and ESRI UK have kindly given us a free subscription for the last few years so that we can share our work. At the end of the Awards presentation at this week's GA Conference Stuart Bonthrone , the MD of Esri UK stood up and made an announcement which was in some ways inevitable after events previously in the USA, and also very welcome. Stuart announced that from immediate effect, ArcGIS Online will be free to all UK schools. Under the heading of " The Science of Where ", Stuart then played a short video featuring the inspirational work of Thierry Torres and colleagues at Dover Grammar School. If you want to know more, and sign up your school, head for the ESRI UK Schools page. I also had the chance to meet Steve Richardson, who is being employed to produce new resources and materials for teachers to encourage more use of the tool in classes. There are already over 60 resources available...

Havergey by John Burnside from Roseanne Watt on Vimeo . "On the small and remote island of Havergey, a few years from now, a community of survivors from a great human catastrophe has created new lives and a new world in a landscape renewed after millennia of human exploitation. To this strange new land comes a traveller from our own time, bewildered by what he finds, and an object of curiosity for the inhabitants, especially the one assigned to watch over him, as he spends his first weeks on the island in Quarantine. Left alone with a history of the community and its roots, he uncovers truths and new mysteries about the people he has encountered, their forebears and the last throes of the old world. In this new novella, the acclaimed poet, novelist and critic brings his unique sensibility to the idea of utopia. A timely reminder about how precious and precarious our world is, it’s also a rejection of the idea of human supremacy over landscape and wildlife." Published b...