Worldwide Visitors & Site Statistics
WEBSITES WHICH LINK TO US
LINKS ADDED IN 2007
GEOGRAPHYPAGES IN PRINT & AWARDS
Now the pride owner of these AWARDS
SLN GEOGRAPHY WEBSITE OF THE MONTH FOR JANUARY 2004
"Alan Parkinson....runs this site - one of the many Heads of subject who believes in sharing their hard work. Spend some time at GeographyPages - it is like all good sites - well signposted, but always full of surprises
"Alan Parkinson should be commended for his open minded approach by helping us all to develop good practice in teaching geography. It is hard as a teacher to keep a website up to date, but Alan is showing us the way."
Chris Durbin
IN PRINT
Featured in the Curriculum section of the Summer Special Newsletter 2003 sent out to the thousands of subscribers to BECTa's TEACHERS ONLINE PROJECT newsletter in June 2003
"The Geography pages have been created by a geography teacher. They offer a variety of resources for teachers of secondary age pupils. Compare houses in different areas of the country using one of the online estate agents who have pictures and prices. There are links to European statistics, and to a number of resources on water and the environment. This is an excellent starting point for a variety of topics within geography"
Also featured in the October 2003 issue of the Geographical Association NEWS in the Webwatch section: Issue 74
"An excellent resource, definitely worth a look"
Also referenced in a German seminar on Periglacial processes and landforms which goes by the name of:
"Prozesse und Erscheinungen des Periglazialraumes" by Constanze Tschritter
GeographyPages mentioned in the 5th 'Evaluate' supplement, included in the Education section of 'The Guardian' on 16th November 2004
(contribution included by Alan Parkinson)
Featured in the November 2004 Havering Learning Newsletter.
Mentioned in the 6th Evaluate Supplement, included in the Education section of 'The Guardian' on 11th January 2005 - article written by Stephen Hoare on VIRTUAL FIELDWORK.
Column talking about my views on Virtual fieldwork and how I use it with groups. Here's the mention in full:
For Alan Parkinson, head of geography at King Edward VII school in Kings Lynn, a virtual field trip is like a "virtual pint of beer. It's never going to replace the real thing." Parkinson, who runs a website on his subject, says some of the best resources are the geography teacher weblogs and photologs listed under community.webshots.com. He says the value is in the selection of images and in the local knowledge which other teachers can adapt to suit teaching a particular theme.
"There's a guy from Rainham Mark school in Gillingham, Kent, who has created a wonderful virtual reality tour of the Kent coastline. What I do is get students to create their own virtual reality tours in PowerPoint after going on a real field trip - a sequence of digital photos to explain where they have been and what they have seen."
http://education.guardian.co.uk/evaluate/story/0,14726,1386927,00.html
Referenced by a paper at the Imperial College of Conservation Science relating to Lapse Rates.
Featured in a list of sites recommended to PGCE students at Bath Spa University College.
Featured in a list of Resources for 'HUMANITIES ONLINE', produced by Helen Nurton for Sec Ed (Issue 74 - 26th May 2005) - also lists GeoInteractive, SLN Geography and GeographyPhotos.
"This is an excellent site for geography teachers; why spend hours searching when you can find recommendations, and more, all in one place ?"
http://www.sec-ed.co.uk/cgi-bin/go.pl/features/article.html?uid=408
Contribution by Alan Parkinson to Evaluate supplement in Education Guardian - 12/09/05 - the Brainstrust section: covers the Geograph project, GeoBloggers and tagging Flickr images, and the GOOGLE EARTH application, also featuring Noel Jenkins.
Also heard on the grapevine that I got a good recommendation at a recent conference for schools delivering Avery Hill courses.
Also mentioned in a document on Blogging produced by Martin Pluss, who writes on Geography and ICT in Australia. The link to the document is HERE.
Featured in the Autumn 2005 issue of GA News, with a nice description. Thanks to Tony Cassidy for photo-phone-e-mailing me an image of the article so I could take a look before I got my actual copy.
"A huge site with tons of stuff and tons of links, with new topics being added all the time. Resources and information available for every key stage, thinking skills activities, advice on interactive whiteboards, free resources, geography in the news archives to name but a few. Worth checking in with."
is a link to an article I wrote for the BECTa ICT ADVICE Newsletter for October 2005 on the subject of GOOGLE EARTH
Geographypages has been included in the newly revised, expanded 2nd edition of the 'Young Person's Guide to The Internet' (ISBN 0-415-34505-7) published by Routledge. Click the book image to order. The reference book is for young people, from primary to post-university education, their teachers, schools and parents and contains 1,600 thoroughly researched, up-to-date websites covering education and leisure. It has 30 category headings ranging from 'Art' to 'Younger Children' and covers all UK National Curriculum subjects
As well as key educational subjects such as Math and Geography, IT and Languages, Special Needs and Education & Teachers, the guide includes subjects such as Careers & Students, Sport, Music, Media Studies, Internet Fun and a section for Parents. The first edition of the Young Person's Guide received many favorable reviews including 'The Book' in the Guardian, 'The Teenagers recommended read' in The Times, and 'The best I can find' recommendation from John Clare, the Telegraph's Education editor.
The book is available in bookshops (£16.99 paperback, ISBN 0-415-34505-7), can be ordered from Amazon www.amazon.co.uk and from the publishers www.routledge.com You can also order copies via the book's website www.youngpersonsguide.co.uk
Also get a mention in E2K: Earth Science 2000 Newsletter - Issue 11- produced in Ireland.
Featured in Geography Developments Update 2006, produced by Norfolk Children's Services for Norfolk Geography departments.
"As many of you aware, Alan Parkinson at King Edward VII School, King's Lynn has his own magnificent website. If you have never visited this website you are missing out on some great resources."
Google Earth work featured in a PDF booklet "Destination Google Earth" produced in the USA by Educational Technology Services Oklahoma City Public Schools at a conference in February 2006.
Featured in Education Guardian in March 2006 in a report entitled "It's Revision, but not as we know it" - read the online version
http://education.guardian.co.uk/evaluate/story/0,,1724912,00.html
Received a nice pack from the RAC called 'Streets Ahead', which looks at road safety and travel plans and other issues relating to transport.
Noticed that in the weblinks section of the Teacher's Guide, there's a mention for GeographyPages (and Radical Geography too....)
A big article written by me about GeographyPages and the Pilot GCSE in the 2nd issue of the PILOT NEWSLETTER, which is distributed to centres preparing candidates for the OCR Pilot Geography, and produced by Phil Wood.
Many of the resources that I produced and collated form a host of generous Scottish teachers for the SAGT Conference 2005 were included on the SAGT CD4 which was included in SGN March 2006 issue, which was mailed out along with an excellent Earth Heritage magazine. Thanks to Malcolm McDonald for sending me the copy, and to all who contributed resources to the workshop CD.
I guest edited the Webwatch section of the Summer 2006 issue of GA NEWS. Nice picture taken during our 'inspirational' Secondary Phase workshop, and other parts of the Conference. This has been followed by more GA WEBWATCH features and now I'm the full-time editor of WEBWATCH: 3 issues per year.
Also mentioned in the new publication from the GA: Fred Martin's "e-Geography: Using ICT in quality geography" and also a few resources of mine on the CD Rom which is included with the book. Look out for Fred on Teachers TV too soon...
MENTIONS ADDED DURING 2007
Also a mention in 'The Matrix': a word document which has been produced by the GA to support the new Secondary Geography Handbook. The mention is for GeoBlogs project, which I now look back on with more pride. I hope the Google Earth product has the same lasting impact.
Check out the GA Secondary Handbook by the way - it's fantastic !
Featured in the WEBSITE ADDRESS BOOK for the last 2 years.
Listed in the list of useful KEY STAGE 3 websites produced by Jonathan Wolton for a session on the new KS3 at the RGS-IBG in February 2007, and this has now been added to the GEOGRAPHY TEACHING TODAY site.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2089745,00.html - Education Guardian May 2007
Geography and Blogging A new resources has just appeared on the Geographical Association website. It's a new online journal called GeogEd. The first item is an article by Phil Wood called Advances in E-Learning: The Case of Blogging in School Geography. This looks at blogging in geography, and name-checks the article I wrote for Teaching Geography in 2004, and then mentions some current Geog Blogs, though sadly not the 'original' GeoBlogs... Fame (ish) at last...
