Head out with Year 10 this coming week if you can.
One of the best ways to appreciate the landscape is to head out on fieldwork.
The latest GeogPod has been released and it features Paula Richardson and I talking about the GA's National Research Report and how that fed into the development of the National Fieldwork Week.
One of the tools that is mentioned in the book is Voicethread. Not all students want to do lots of writing in every GCSE lesson, but they are happy to talk.
This is a tool that allows students to 'comment' in various ways on media that are uploaded to the site. This could include the recording of
This simple example below was created very simply (as you can probably tell). I uploaded 2 images from my computer at the VOICETHREAD site.
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holdsimages, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites
Visit the Voicethread and click COMMENT and students can
This could relate to the idea of SOLO Taxonomy, which is a way for students to explore how well they are progressing...
The THREAD can be shared in various ways.
Students should also be providing some voice overs for other media.
For example, here is an animation of the Water Cycle, produced by NASA....
Produce a GCSE standard explanation, which makes connections between this animation and the important vocabulary that is included in your chosen specification about the hydrological cycle.
