A place for international Geography teachers to share thoughts, tips and strategies for distance learning. We aim to provide a support network enabling colleagues to connect once every three weeks.

Hosted by Richard Allaway (geographyalltheway) using his crystal clear HD webcam and Matt Podbury (this website!) in rural-French pixelated format!

Participants are encouraged to take part in the live webinar and all the details and themes of future webinars can be found on the following Facebook support pages:

​https://www.facebook.com/groups/IBgeographyteachers/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/geographypods/
https://www.facebook.com/geographyalltheway/

Webinar #4 Top Tips for IB DP Geography Teachers
Monday 08/06 + Tuesday 09/06 2020

This webinar was run twice over the course of two days. The 11am on Tuesday (CEST) was aimed at our colleagues in Asia and Oceania and the 8pm on Monday (CEST) at Europe. You can find both videos below (thanks to Rich). 
Apéro Time 8pm CEST - France, UK, Germany, Canada, Poland, Austria, ​Saudi Arabia.
Coffee Time - 11am CEST - France, Qatar, Switzerland, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Singapore.
Links
  • The 'gatw Summer Menu' is in development as a set of suggestions for students 'who want to do more' during the summer break. It is focused on students between DP1 and DP2 but could also work for students about to start the course. Make sure you keep an eye on the 'Updates Blog' (which also posts to Facebook) and Twitter for when it is ready.

Webinar #3 - Place - with Special Guest @Geoblogs
​Monday 18/05 & Tuesday 19/05/2020 

This webinar was run twice over the course of two days. The 11am on Tuesday (CEST) was aimed at our colleagues in Asia and Oceania and the 8pm on Monday (CEST) at Europe. You can find both videos below (thanks to Rich). 
8PM CEST - Session 1 (apéro time)
France, Switzerland, Guernsey, UK, Brazil, Poland and Canada.

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11AM CEST - Session 2 (coffee time) ​
France, Qatar, UK, North Cyprus, Hong Kong, Singapore, Netherlands, Philippines, Cambodia, Norway, Switzerland, Ghana, India, Poland and Kazakhastan.
  • The #ibgeog Podcasts online and smartphone app now includes the Urban geographic theme. A big thank you to Jonathan Butcher for sharing his list of podcasts.
    • The app now also works on tablets and desktops.
    • If anybody would like to work with me to add one of the other geographic themes - please get in touch!
  • I am working with my DP1 students to make Quizlets, as they prepare for their exams. The quizes we have produced can be found here and will be added to over the next couple of days.
  • I have produced a revision lesson on infographics - beyond the infographics resources page.
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Click to access Becki's Google Drive of posters.
Alan's Presentation Resources
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Alaric Maude (2020): The role of geography’s concepts and powerful knowledge in a future 3 curriculum, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education

Richard Bustin (2011), The living city: Thirdspace and the contemporary geography curriculum, Geography

New Geographies : New Curriculum PC (Post Coronavirus) School Geographies - A provocation & some curriculum making v4.0

Wired - Amid a Pandemic, Geography Returns With a Vengeance [14 April 2020]

Webinar #2 - Infographics 27/04/20

This webinar was run twice over the course of the day. The 11am (CEST) was aimed at our colleagues in Asia and Oceania and the 8pm (CEST) at Europe. You can find both videos below (thanks to Rich). 

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11AM CEST - Session 1 (coffee time) ​
France, Poland, Philippines, Vietnam, Australia, Singapore, India, Qatar, Belgium, UK, Hong Kong and Kazakhstan.

​Matt's Resources ​
Something Matt has been working on...

Still working on resourcing resourcing Option E
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Unit 2 (free to access until I have finished teaching and reviewing them) - https://www.ibgeographypods.org/2-tourism-and-sport-at-the-local-and-national-scale.html

Unit 3 - (free to access until I have finished teaching and reviewing them) https://www.ibgeographypods.org/3-tourism-and-sport-at-the-international-scale.html - interestingly, Iceland is hitting all the targets, even ‘Tourism as a Development Strategy’ given their unique post 2008 recovery. 

Some thing's that I've found useful...

Alan Parkinson's (Living Geography / @GeoBlogs) curriculum for Year 7 & Year 8. Document here. (Thanks to Alan & King's Ely Junior School). 

An excellent online CPD session by Kate Stockings - mostly aimed at KS3 but if you teach at that level - it would be a really advantages to watch the session. Some excellent suggestions for academic reading in Geography - perfect for any HOD’s out there.

Karen Corfield - Eyjafjallajokull eruption webinar next Tuesday at 4pm (UK time). Looks excellent for the Option D Geophysical hazards - volcanic eruption & covers often-neglected impacts such as upon human health, and the economic shift into farming. - Link to YouTube live here. 
8PM CEST - Session 2 (apéro time)
France, Costa Rica, UK, Canada, Switzerland, Brazil, New Zealand, Poland, Italy, Norway, Abu Dhabi, Belgium, Germany and Ghana.

​Richard's Resources ​
Something Rich has been working on... ​

Remote learning with geographyalltheway.com
Geographyalltheway.com pages that I have taught with during ‘lockdown’ and therefore have been evolved with more structured independent tasks.

Some thing's that I've found useful...

Flipboard magazines >
https://flipboard.com/@richardallaway

Kialo-Edu >
https://www.kialo-edu.com/

Examples > https://www.geographyalltheway.com/projects/the-geography-of-covid-19/ 

Infographics
The geographyalltheway.com IB DP Geography Infographics page [free access] which includes sources of infographics, articles about the production of infographics, help with 'visual vocabulary', useful infograèhics by unit and some exam style questions.


​Webinar #1 - Coping With Distance Learning 06/04/20

This webinar was run twice over the course of the day. The 11am (CEST) was aimed at our colleagues in Asia and Oceania and the 8pm (CEST) at Europe. You can find both videos below (thanks to Rich). 

France, Switzerland, Laos, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Qatar, Norway, Germany, UK, Thailand, Australia, India
11AM CEST - Session 1 (coffee time) 
8PM CEST - Session 2 (apéro time)

Matt's Resources 
Podcasting the rest of the G12/Y13 IB DP course - Document that was given to students to finish off outstanding parts of the course after exam cancellation.  Document here. 

Podcasting the rest of the G10/Y11 IGCSE course - Document that was given to students to finish off outstanding parts of the course after exam cancellation.  Document here. 

Preparing G10/Y11 for IB DP (IGCSE exams cancelled). Thanks to Paul Goodson in Brazil for this 6 week plan of activities. Document here. 

Analogue Geography Distance Learning Tasks - Thanks to Alan Parkinson (http://livinggeography.blogspot.fr/). Document here. 

Be an excellent home geographer - Lower school (G6/Y7) type Geography tasks in and around the home based on weekly themes - This one is 'roads'.  Document  here

Dollar Street - for inclusion in Option E (LST) and global change - Core. ​https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/matrix

Dinosaur Earth - Great fun - Continental Drift meets Google Earth. Great for Option D & IGCSE Hazards. Check out the 'Enter a city name' tab left hand corner.  ​https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth/#240

​Visual Capitalist - Excellent range of all things Geography presented in some outstanding infographic type formats. Great for inclusion into Global Interactions, Food & Health, Population etc. 
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/

BBC The Inquiry - Why don't we care about facts? - Excellent 22 minute podcast with clear links to current Covid-19 pandemic and TOK. ​https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csythf

Richard's Resources 
  • The gatw Spring Break Menu - a list of activities for DP1 students as they 'enjoy' there Spring Break 'lockdown' staycation! Highlights include:
    • ibgeog Podcasts app - 100+ categorised podcast episodes.
    • Pre-reading suggestions for ageing population and climate change.
    • Netflix series ROTTEN.

 
  • Remote teaching and podcasts - with the closure of schools, the 'changing goal posts' of cancelled examinations and the desire to reduce student's screen time I have put together some podcast based lesson ideas.
 

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