"Look at it this way"

My new favourite site: Jonathan Feinberg's WORDLE . The text is an opening section from an early draft of my forthcoming Landscapes book.

By Flickr user TZA (Creative Commons) - image credit Google and associated imaging partners

Just catching up with the Monday night lecture that Robert MacFarlane gave at the Royal Geographical Society on the 14th of April relating to his wonderful book that I have blogged about before: " The Wild Places ". I was unable to attend this particular lecture (it being my daughter's birthday), but this is the next best thing... It's available to RGS-IBG members, and I would recommend that you listen to it. It's full of humour and powerful images, and introduces a new way of exploring the landscape: "border crossings" as Dr. MacFarlane calls them.... It was also good to hear mentions of some of my favourite authors: Barry Lopez (probably my favourite writer if pushed...), Colin Thubron, William Least-Heat Moon, Roger Deakin, Thoreau and Bruce Chatwin, and mentions of some of my favourite places, such as Camasunary and Coruisk on Skye, Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor, the Burren's limestone, Bleaklow in the Peak District and the wild expanse of Ran...

NEW KS3 The new QCA SUPPORT WEBSITE is now open (thanks to Simon Renshaw for the tip-off on that) You will have to register, which is a very quick process taking less than a minute. A confirmation e-mail is sent immediately and you can then log in. This allows you to make use of a CURRICULUM PLANNING WIZARD , or viewing RESOURCES that are relevant to Geography (and the other subjects....) The resources section includes some videos of 'COMPELLING LEARNING EXPERIENCES' and also RECOMMENDED WEBSITES, and it's good to see GeographyPages getting the QCA seal of approval again: A vast array of good ideas, links and resources for KS3 work can be accessed from the GeographyPages website. It includes all the details such as the IMPORTANCE STATEMENT. I have taken one sentence from this as our departmental 'statement of intent'... Geography inspires pupils to become global citizens by exploring their own place in the world, their values and their responsibilities to other peo...

GA Conference 2008 : University of Surrey, Guildford Just sorting out my luggage and various pickings from the conference, which was based in the AP building of the university. This was one of the dry moments, there were lots of wet ones... Will post more details later in the week once I have more time, but just wanted to make a link to the BLOG of the TEACHER's TOOLKIT workshop which I was particularly involved in. Alan Kinder opened the session, then 4 of the authors talked through some of the ideas... Thanks to those who came along to the session...

Want to hear me talk about some of the ideas involved in the production of the Landscapes book ? Come along to our workshop at the University of Surrey next week and find out more. | View | Upload your own

Coming soon, some more fab images of the landscape from Simon Hathaway.. A taster below: