Regards, Melissa Davies, Maesydderwen School.

Flood pictures as e-reminder

I work for Good Energy a supplier of only 100% renewable electricity. We have been looking at ways to contact people who have requested an information pack from us but not signed up. One of the ways we would like to contact them is by an e-postcard highlighting how easy it is to help reduce climate change by cutting ones personal CO2 emissions. To do this we researched a flood image and the one that we would very much like to use was on your website

Tor Brook

Many thanks for the great ideas in 'ready to use' format. Hopefully I will get back to you with some of my own. I believe AfL is one of the most important innovations in education and has the power to radically improve what we do with learning. It has always been with us in isolated pockets of our practice and dovetails so well with E.I., multiple intelligences and 'Thinking through..' and the whole thing is like a light bulb being switched on! Why didn't someone switch it on before!!! On reflection they all seem like the pieces of the same jigsaw puzzle. I am in the Cambridgeshire Outreach Network for Education -CONE Network Learning Community and teach at St Neots Community College of Performing Arts and Media Technology.

Lesley Warp www.co-net.co.uk 

Fantastic site by the way - I love the way it has really developed organically...a breath of fresh air! I'm a relative newcomer to SLN but hope I will be able to contribute more in future....as a geographer I think the site is really inspirational.

Mary Fargher, Masters student at the Institute in London

I was inspired by the classroom you had on the website and got to work with mine. The pupils have been involved in the classroom via decorating it. I am not sure how to create a virtual tour but I have plenty of pictures if you are interested !.

Alison

I love SLN geography, it is just the BEST thing for serious geographers - that and Geographypages (which is my homepage), is the sort of thing which geography teachers need more of. I actually use them on a daily basis! The only problem is that I still have difficulty in finding teaching resources which can compare in quality and amount to those found in www.schoolhistory.co.uk

Ava Khalfaoui British School, Kuala Lumpur

I am a student at Loreto Kirribilli,  a catholic private girls school on the harbour in Sydney. At lunch time when we sit down we can see the boats on the water.

We are doing a school project on Egypt. I was asking for permission to use the pictures on your websites as part of my project.  It was as it was very helpful. I will try to sent you an electronic copy of my project when I have finished. thanks Bridie Ohlsson 

I have milked your great site of goodies for a long time. Hope this little offering is acceptable.. some animated images of coasts..

I'll try be creative and send more Geo images. Thanks Peter Crawley Head of Humanities at Richard Lander School, Cornwall

I have used the '50 things to do' page with Y9 classes and adapted it for the '50 places to see'. We enjoy the SLN geography website - it is very inspiring - and keeps us northerners up to date with what is going on down south!!  Will look forward to attending your workshop in Birmingham.

Kind regards, Fiona Hart, English Martyrs School, Hartlepool

Guys, you're being brilliant. Thanks to you I think the class are going to have an exciting learning experience about rivers! Thanks again

Lucy Jackson
(A formerly very scared non-geography specialist!!)

I love this site!! It is the first place I go whenever I am looking for something new to try with my students.

Keep up the great work.

Richard E. Katz rekatz@seattleschools.org

Applied Geography Teacher, Eighth Grade, Social Studies Department Chair, Washington Middle School, 2101 South Jackson Street, Seattle, WA USA 

I know that I, and many other people, have said this before, but I've just been prompted to re-iterate what a fantastic site this is!!! I came along to get a copy of the coastal erosion mystery that I used last year on TP but stupidly didn't keep a copy of, and came across a brand new odd one out for coasts, "dominoes" for Bangladesh flooding, and mystery for Brazil - all of which will be useful in the next week and a half - as well as a number of other new resources that I will be able to use over the coming weeks/months. Makes me feel very guilty that I have contributed so little so far!! Thank you to all those who are providing resources - they are GREATLY appreciated!!!

Victoria Ellis Swanwick Hall School, Derbyshire

I am a regular visitor to your SLN Geography site and think it is excellent. It was through this that I saw the idea of using dominoes as a starter. http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/thinking_through_geography.htm

Helen Roberts

I have been a silent observer of the SLN website for some time and just love it! I have spread the word to many colleagues in other schools and I know they are likewise impressed. On behalf of my pupils, many thanks for the advent calendar - we followed it every day. As you will see, I hail from the presently frozen north. I have strong contacts with the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers but am enjoying ' eavesdropping' on the activities of some of you geographers south of the border. The networking is quite stimulating. The online forum makes a welcome change from the staff room gossip and was my first venture into making contact- I have been supplying Ian Murray with photos for his new website and enjoying some stimulating email discussion on the renaissance of photographs in the teaching of Geography , courtesy of the ICT revolution.

 Val Vannet, Head of Geography at the High School of Dundee.

I am a geography teacher and discovered the game "Who killed Chico Mendez?" on your site. I am working on a work book for my pupils where a chapter study the Amazonian forest. Is it possible to use the same idea, translated in French. Thank you, your site is great.

Jean-Claude Larouche, Québec, Canada.

As always the SLN website has given us a lot to think about. The Hurricanes web enquiry proved very valuable for our Year 13s. We have also tried out some of the mysteries which have really challenged our most able students.

Jo Brake, Finham Park School

Thanks for this support, we spent 90 minutes on the website and found some really supportive stuff. Keep up the good work

Richard West, Penkridge Middle School, Staffordshire.

I was most impressed by your Macromedia program on why erratics can be found in Cannock.

Ian Grant, Ysgol Uwchradd Caergybi in Ynys Mon

I enjoy the SLN geography site very much my classes liked the advent calendar.

Allyson Taylor, Slough Grammar School, Cheshire

I would like to congratulate you and the team for an excellent website which I use regularly. I've attached a word mat which you are free to use if it is helpful. Thanks,

Alison Bowers Le Bocage International School Mauritius

Thanks to all who contribute to SLN Geography pages for their inspiration. John has contributed a new thinking skills exercise on trade.

John Lewis, Padgate High School, Warrington

Emma Griffiths

I work for the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead and have been tasked with putting together a pamphlet on "What to do in floods?". I would like to include some non specific photographs of flooding in the pamphlet Bizarrely in spite of the extensive flooding in our area earlier this year most of us were so wrapped up with dealing with the incident, we didn't bother taking any photographs.

Eric Livingstone

Ed Note - I love this story! But it is really heartening that we are of use and also that Eric is doing what he should be looking after the people of Maidenhead

I am an AST based at the Beaufort School in Gloucester. As part of my AST role, I decided to support all the Gloucestershire schools by starting up a network support group. We run termly meetings which are very well attended (we had one on assessment last night, attended by 23) but I also provide support via e mail - I simply mail out worksheets, ideas, web sites, schemes of work, either of my own, or those that are contributed by the group. 

In terms of your web site - this just has to be the best Geography website that is accessible to teachers at the moment There is everything there that we Geographers need, and this was underlined by an e mail I received today from the FS adviser in Gloucester, who says that he uses the site on loads of occasions. I use all areas as much as each other, and when I have a few spare moments, I simply trawl through the various links. At the moment, I am more interested in the creativity pages - I like to think that I can keep abreast of the ideas at the forefront of teaching, but at the same time I like variety. So I'm always on the lookout for the unusual. I also constantly look for good images, so this is a favoured link.

I don't know if you get many e mails like this, but really, a big thank you to simply providing a user friendly and very valuable web site. 

Paul Bartlett, Gloucestershire

Editors note - If you have one, look after your local adviser because they need TLC - many have an impossible task to do general as well a special. It is only because Staffordshire are committed to expertise that we are able to provide this service. Thanks Paul 

I am writing to say a thank you to Johanna Hazel for her great Geography big concepts level diagrams. I am the FS consultant for Gloucestershire and have pointed many people in the direction of the site. I was a Head of Geography before and actually remember you coming to speak at Sheffield University about 7 years ago whilst I was training with Margaret Roberts. Small world.

Steve Brady, FS consultant for Gloucestershire

David Wailes, Head of Humanities, Moorside High School, Salford

Kevin Wells, Geography Teacher, Broxboune School, Herts.

We have been using the River Trent website in Year Six. The children enjoyed using the site and gained a lot from it.

Miss Catherine Dear, Stanburn Middle School, Stanmore. Middlesex

I am a calligrapher and have been looking for a poem on drought to use as a calligraphic piece. On searching the Internet I found just what I was looking for in your Geography section, a verse titled "Drought" from "Newcastle Community High School". Read it here

Bob Jones photograph of oil tankers in Jordan, has been used for a lecture in California about oil in the Gulf and Iraq in particular. SLN Geography reaches parts of the world others don't reach!! See the image here.

First response to on-line questionnaire received today - from an ex pupil now teaching geography in The Netherlands!  SLN reaches the parts other websites fail to reach!

I have recently used the globalisation of Chelsea football club exercise with Year 9 and they responded very well! 

At last I am glad to be able to contribute to your website which I use quite a lot even though I am a Cambs not Staffs teacher!

I have been impressed with development of particularly the Geography branch of SLN, and the resources it contains.

Thought you might like to have a look at our little effort. I've mentioned it to Sue Warn who thinks it's a sensible approach.

http://www.guilsboroughschool.co.uk/Geoweb/Pages/Geoweb%20home.html 

Thanks for the email and the complimentary remarks on the web site. I only wish it were true! But I still intend to carry on working through and my confidence has built enormously. I have led 10 IT lessons in the last 10 days and I wouldn't have done that three months ago! I

Further information and a sample at: http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/~cmteh/newgeogcontent.html 

As a new Head of Geography, I attended a conference for Heads of Geography last week. I was shown your web-site for the first time- a fantastic resource! I have really enjoying looking through the different and creative ideas and being inspired, even in the final days of term! I was impressed too by the work Jon Clarke presented at the conference on describing and explaining, both concepts my students struggle with and ideas I can hopefully use.

From John Hamshaw, Thomas Silverdale School, Sheffield

 I have not had a chance to look at the SLN site for about 6 months- but again I am inspired by the ideas & contributions! It seems to me that we could do with a period of non-contact time every week just to look on the net to see what might be of some help to us!

From Chris Spurr, Norwich High School for Girls

I am very impressed with the whole site - Staffordshire is obviously the LEA to work for!

From Jon and Rosie from www.geomatics.org.uk  

We were invited by Chris Durbin of Staffordshire Learning Net to speak to a group of geography teachers attending a training day. It was a chance for the teachers to get their hands on the resource kits and also register for the website. It was great to meet such enthusiastic teachers!
 

I registered today on SLN  geography, though I have told my French colleagues about the very good job you do. May I suggest you a look at Chronique internet.
Hope we may meet some day and that you find something useful.
Daniel Letouzey
Lycée Marie Curie 
14500 Vire (Normandie)
Chronique Internet et Revue Historiens et Géographes

Well done.
Kindest regards Ian Kenyon, Truro
 

I must say that one of the most enjoyable events of the year was your KS3 Conference which was informative and inspirational. Well done again.

Richard West, Penkridge Middle School.