National Geographic's MapMaker

Jason Sawle has shared ten teaching tips for National Geographic's MapMaker.

Here's one for example that I used to make a lot more use of than now....

GI Pedagogy

I previously posted about my regret at the ending of the UK's involvement with the ERASMUS+ programme following our withdrawal from the EU. Whenever I've met and worked with European friends and colleagues since then, they have expressed their sadness and bafflement at that decision. We can only hope that it might be reversed at some point.

The GI Pedagogy project was my 'final' involvement and last week we got the final assessment back from the British Council with a VERY GOOD assessment, which had improved on the original project bid - which is always good to see, and which commented on the quality of the outputs and support for teachers.

If you are thinking of increasing your use of GIS in the classroom please check out our website for the resources that we created as part of the project. The innovative aspect of our work is the use of Rosenshine's Principles to help inform the teaching with GIS.

These include:

- Our lesson template.

- Research reports on best practice when teaching with GIS. I contributed to all of these, but was particularly involved in the creation of the TOOLKIT. I'm very pleased with how that turned out.

- Check out our MOOC - free access, and full of useful videos and other resources

- A StoryMap of outcomes from people who have used our model.

Google Earth Tutorial Videos

Worth checking these out, and following on Twitter too...

Want to learn the ins and outs of the new #GoogleEarth? I made this #Youtube playlist of tutorials which can hopefully help! More details are in the descriptions of each video. Cheers! https://t.co/CGi9JJYqsH #EdTechTeam #GEEAB #GETN #WorldGeoChat #EdTech #GoogleEarthOutreach pic.twitter.com/6fXDhc1Rm7

— Donnie Piercey (@mrpiercEy) December 30, 2017

Google Earth Update at Norfolk Geography Conference

Will be delivering a session at this conference, which will be held at the Professional Development Centre, Woodside Road, Norwich on the 30th of June.
I will be demonstrating some of the newer features in updates like 4.3

The session will be an update of one that I ran back in 2006 for Norfolk colleagues, when I ran through some of the features.


Here is a video from the Google Earth website which explains some of the new features:



The session is called: "Google Earth: Paths, Polygons and Pedagogy". It will cover a number of areas:

1. Paths (and fly along) / Tours
2. Polygons (zoning of areas)
3. Adding images to placemarks
4. GE Graph (basic introduction)
5. How to use some of these features as a GIS type resource

Will post more resources and materials nearer the time. Have a number of other projects to work on before then...