Few new videos

I few more videos I have created:

Call Centres - Why have companies such as BT set up call centres in India?



Chamonix - Tourism in glaciated areas: the attractions, benefits, problems and sustainable management



Use them for your revision :)

Mr. Still

Welcome back!!

Welcome back after the Easter break and hopefully you have not had too many Easter eggs.

I was really pleased with the number of people who attended the Geography Easter revision sessions. I appreciate that you have given up part of your holiday and I think you found them very useful from what I can gather from your evaluations!! Your suggestions to improve them have been taken into account including having more food and shorter sessions!!

A few points:

• now is the time to step up and really push on with your revision Yr11 and Yr10
• Yr11 revision sessions will continue Glacier this week. After that the topics will be determined by you. This means you need to let Mr. McCrae or myself on which topics you would like to go over
• Yr10 - This week letters will go out informing about revision sessions which will be Tuesday after school. They will have a consent form on them so make sure you get your parents/guardians to sign them!

I am looking forward to another term with lots of new ideas and a new enthusiasm.

Mr. Still

Year 8 - Parents/Options evening!!

I hope to see many of you at the parents/options evening on Monday. I have posted the following videos below about Geography at GCSE and possible jobs/careers using Geography.

Geography at GCSE



Jobs and Geography



Below is a link to onlinegeography - the department website with lots of extra information. This very useful for revision for exams.

Online Geography

Mr. Still

Finding good pictures

Finding good, interesting and relevant pictures for lessons or homework can sometimes be difficult so here are a few links to make it easier:

Flickr - very useful. Use the search function to find pictures of what I call real photos taken by real people at real people

Shabi - very useful again. It searches flickr, google and yahoo to find photos most relevant to your search

Geograph - excellent photo database covering every OS map grid square in the country - just type in what you want and if it is in the UK it will find it

Quintura - a visual search engine which brings very good results

My picture of the day:

See what you can find - Mr. Still

Google Earth 3D buildings

I recently used Google Earth again, to show the location of different tourist attractions. A particularly useful way was to get the students to recognise the tourist destinations as 3D buildings.To view the 3D buildings make sure the 3D buildings layer is turned on or you can download buildings people have made from the Google Earth 3D Warehouse.

Mr. Still

Very interesting website

I found this the other day and was very impressed. Year 10 and Year 9 should become familar with this for the Globalisation unit which focuses on sustainable energy. The website has information on many small-scale sustainable energy projects across the world.

Women in Nepal carrying cables to help set up wind turbines.

Practical Action weblink

Mr. Still

The Milk Truck

I thought this was very cool and spent far too long driving round like Jensen Button. I did enjoy driving round different tourist attractions in London but also found some buildings in Grimsby.

The milk truck by the Dock Tower

The milk truck by Blundell Park

Have some fun!

Monster Milk Truck link

You may have to download the browser plug-in but this is very easy.

Mr. Still