Geography and ICT

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Geography and ICT

• John Harris
• Head of Geography
• Radley College
• mjh_at_radley.org.uk

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Why ICT?

• Enhances learning teaching
• Topical - latest news and data
• Real world links
• Better quality work higher-level tasks
• Key skill for the future
• Promote the Dept and school
• Fun and variety

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• Departmental admin

• Messages

• Accounts

• Database

• Results

• Greybook

• Tests

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• ICT for Geog students

• News

• Cuttings

• PDF files

• Electronic ws

• Maps

• PowerPoint

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• Fieldwork

• Land-use GIS

• Coastal

• Urban

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• Email

• Lists

• Newsgroups

• ORs

• Hot news

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• Exploiting Word and Excel

• Drag labels

• Flow lines

• Prop.symbols

• Isolines

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• MetLink

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MetLink activities

• Database

• Graphs

• Worksheets

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MetLink work samples
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Daily reports
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MetLink media links
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Geog websites

• BBC News
• BBC Weather
• CIA
• Fast multimedia
• MetLink
• Met Office
• Multimap

• NASA
• NOAA
• Radley Geog Dept
• SSEC
• Study Links HMC
• US Census
• USGS