A few reminders about Monday:
- You need to be ready to leave the layby at 9.00am.
- We should be back at school by 4.30pm.
- You will need: pencils, a packed lunch, water, waterproofs, suncream...
- A camera will be useful.
- You need to be prepared for all weathers, and be aware that the weather in Swanwick could be very different to the weather in the Burbage Valley! You will need walking boots or similar as we will be walking a reasonable distance .
Make sure you know who is in your group, and that you are clear about what you are measuring.
If you haven't brought your money and permission slip back yet (you know who you are!) I need it as a matter of urgency.
If you want to find out more about Burbage before we go, have a look at this post from last year, which has a map showing you where we're going and also has a couple of useful websites.
If you have questions about Monday, come and see me tomorrow or Friday, or email.
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Welcome/welcome back!
Welcome back to my new Year 11 group, and welcome to the two new Year 10 groups.
It would be a very good idea to make sure that you visit the blog regularly, as summaries of lessons, useful websites, news stories and some of your homework tasks will be posted here.
Your first interesting website is one that I have only just discovered... Earth Snapshot describes itself as "A daily view of the planet" and has some great satellite images... I particularly like this one of Hurricane Fred from yesterday:
It would be a very good idea to make sure that you visit the blog regularly, as summaries of lessons, useful websites, news stories and some of your homework tasks will be posted here.
Your first interesting website is one that I have only just discovered... Earth Snapshot describes itself as "A daily view of the planet" and has some great satellite images... I particularly like this one of Hurricane Fred from yesterday:
Monday, 1 June 2009
Good luck!!!
Not long to go now.... Hopefully you are all thoroughly ready and prepared for tomorrow afternoon... Email is available for last minute panics if you need it.
A couple of people have asked today about revision between English and Geography tomorrow - I am not going to plan anything formal, but if you want to come up to H6 p3 tomorrow, then I will be around to answer questions (and there might be a biscuit or two).
Either way.... remember to read the questions carefully - think about which ones you are going to answer rather than jumping straight in... and GOOD LUCK!!!
A couple of people have asked today about revision between English and Geography tomorrow - I am not going to plan anything formal, but if you want to come up to H6 p3 tomorrow, then I will be around to answer questions (and there might be a biscuit or two).
Either way.... remember to read the questions carefully - think about which ones you are going to answer rather than jumping straight in... and GOOD LUCK!!!
Sunday, 10 May 2009
What are you revising?
Not a clue if this is of any use or interest, but I just discovered Wallwisher, thought it was rather good, and thought that you should try using it...
So... click here, and post a note or two to tell us what you are revising...
So... click here, and post a note or two to tell us what you are revising...
Saturday, 18 April 2009
BBC Bitesize
Advance warning that the Bitesize Geography programmes are coming up soon on BBC2...
Human Geography - 28th April, 0400 - 0600
Physical Geography - 29th April, 0400 - 0600
Global Issues - 30th April, 0400 - 0600
Set those videos/DVDs/Sky+, etc.!
Human Geography - 28th April, 0400 - 0600
Physical Geography - 29th April, 0400 - 0600
Global Issues - 30th April, 0400 - 0600
Set those videos/DVDs/Sky+, etc.!
More Mobile Phone Revision...
There's now a mobile phone revision quiz for Settlement in the 4shared folder, thanks to Tanith!! It would be great if a few more of you did some and sent them in...
Weather and climate
Natural hazards
Economic activity
Development
woul all be useful...
There is a template in the folder, so all you have to do is download, change the questions, save, resize, zip and send!
Weather and climate
Natural hazards
Economic activity
Development
woul all be useful...
There is a template in the folder, so all you have to do is download, change the questions, save, resize, zip and send!
Monday, 6 April 2009
Geography revision on your mobile phone!
I posted on Geogtastic yesterday about an experiment with mobile phone revision... Several Geography teacher friends and at least one student have tested it, on a range of phones and with a range of download methods, and it seems to have been pretty successful...
One Geography teacher friend, Liz Smith, has put together a Rivers one in a similar format...
You can now download both quizzes from the Mobile Phone Revision folder here. As I put together new ones, I will add them to that folder, so keep checking back. I will also put together a template and add that to the folder, so that you can make your own.
If you want to have a go at making your own and can't wait for a template, here's a quick summary of what you need to do:
- Open PowerPoint
- Set slide orientation to "portrait"
- Type your quiz (ours are both multiple choice, but yours don't have to be!)
- Make sure that any pictures you use are your own, or are Creative Commons (Flickr is a good source) and the source/photographer is acknowledged
- Don't type too close to the edges of the slide, and check that the font is big enough (if you zoom out to 25% and can still read it, it's probably ok)
- Once you're happy, save your presentation - it would be wise to save it as a ppt presentation so you have it for future use, but for your mobile quiz, you will need to Save As, and then alter the filetype to .jpeg. It will ask if you want to do this for every slide - you do.
- The slides will be saved as a series of .jpeg files on your computer.
- You will then need to resize the pictures - I used Microsoft Office Picture Manager but there are various ways you could do it. They will need to be 320 x 240.
- Then, download the photos to your phone, et voila!!
Oh, and don't forget to save the pictures in a zip file and email them to me so I can add them to the folder and everyone can benefit!
One Geography teacher friend, Liz Smith, has put together a Rivers one in a similar format...
You can now download both quizzes from the Mobile Phone Revision folder here. As I put together new ones, I will add them to that folder, so keep checking back. I will also put together a template and add that to the folder, so that you can make your own.
If you want to have a go at making your own and can't wait for a template, here's a quick summary of what you need to do:
- Open PowerPoint
- Set slide orientation to "portrait"
- Type your quiz (ours are both multiple choice, but yours don't have to be!)
- Make sure that any pictures you use are your own, or are Creative Commons (Flickr is a good source) and the source/photographer is acknowledged
- Don't type too close to the edges of the slide, and check that the font is big enough (if you zoom out to 25% and can still read it, it's probably ok)
- Once you're happy, save your presentation - it would be wise to save it as a ppt presentation so you have it for future use, but for your mobile quiz, you will need to Save As, and then alter the filetype to .jpeg. It will ask if you want to do this for every slide - you do.
- The slides will be saved as a series of .jpeg files on your computer.
- You will then need to resize the pictures - I used Microsoft Office Picture Manager but there are various ways you could do it. They will need to be 320 x 240.
- Then, download the photos to your phone, et voila!!
Oh, and don't forget to save the pictures in a zip file and email them to me so I can add them to the folder and everyone can benefit!
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