"Look at it this way"

  A cross-posting from my relatively new blog: 'At the Home of Geography'.   This is a blog to share work around my work as Vice President:Education of the Royal Geographical Society. The GA's Fieldwork Festival during June has ended, but fieldwork can carry on at any time of course, and we hope that your summer travels may well involve some 'fieldtrips' AKA family holidays, or personal travels. These may be in the local area or further afield. Check out the detailed page on the RGS website which contains a wealth of resources for those planning fieldwork. One issue for teachers when consultations take place is to have ideas for fieldwork which are low cost (ideally free) and can be carried out in the local area. In terms of having ideas for fieldwork. The sharing of ideas in this area are particularly helpful. The RGS has added a useful form to their website. The form can be used to tell us about the fieldwork that you are undertaking, and help share examples of f...

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...