Teachers TV website to close

Yet another casualty of the cutbacks...

Teachers TV website will disappear on the 29th of April...

There are some other casualties of the austerity measures still to be announced - check this blog after the Easter break for one of the bigger ones - but the disappearance of the Teachers TV website means the loss of quite a few programmes that I was involved with producing...

So I'm currently downloading the WEATHER and CLIMATE series, and the SECONDARY GEOGRAPHY and ICT programme which featured Bob Lang, Paul Haigh and Helen Young.

This programme featured Google Earth used for virtual fieldtrips for exam specifications....

Get them while you can....

Google Earth Builder and Map Maker

Google Earth Builder was announced at the Where 2.0 event...


The website is HERE

There's also the steady roll-out of Google Map Maker.
This has just been added to the USA.



You can also SEE LIVE MAPPING by other users...

I need to investigate this, and Google Fusion Tables a little more when time permits....

GA Conference 2011 - University of Surrey, Guildford

A number of posts are appearing over at my LIVING GEOGRAPHY blog on the follow-up to the GA Conference 2011.

There were some wonderful sessions.... but enough about me...

Anne Greaves has started to post resources from the conference on the GA WEBSITE.

Image by Bryan Ledgard
Copyright Geographical Association

There were some really useful sessions for those who wanted to develop their Google Earth skills.

Richard Treves from Southampton University and creator of the GOOGLE EARTH DESIGN blog presented a very well received workshop on BASIC and ADVANCED skills.
He has kindly shared his slides and links HERE (and on the GA website too)

Declan Da Poer's Google Earth Science links were new to me - some very useful resources there....

Richard also touched on something I've been exploring for a while: GOOGLE FUSION TABLES.


A useful link through to Andrew Zolnai's BLOG on this theme.

Tour of Britain 2011

The route of the Tour of Britain 2011 was announced earlier today...
After last year's visit to Norfolk it's great news that the race is coming through the region once again....

This time it is coming a little further inland and if the map is anything to go by, it looks like it might even be coming straight through my village.
Will wait for the final detailed route map to find out more...

As with previous years, this would form a great context for learning about a whole range of geographical concepts and skills...