David Rogers

I think teaching about ' Citizenship' (still don't like that word) is vital. However, I don't believe that it should be a discrete subject. Geography is ideally placed to explore controversial issues and the develop the confidence to successfully engage in our democratic society. Took delivery of these rather nice purple books this week. The project is aimed at teachers of geography and suggests 5 'blot-on' units to existing popular topics. I hope that the book will help teachers to make simple changes to teaching in order to help young people take informed action. Informed participation is in the National Curriculum Geography orders and mentioned in the Curriculum for Excellence. I will be talking about some of the principles and ideas behind Citizenship THROUGH Geography at the SAGT conference this weekend and at the GA Conference next year. Themes covered: 1. What makes it so complicated to decide what's British? 2. Is food really glorious? 3. Every...

The Textbooks: everyone's guilty pleasure workshop is now available as 10 handy YouTube clips. The idea was to provide a resource that can be used for CPD. Here's my favorite clip: And also tip 2 that talks about Twitter The others can be found on the Folens website . Make sure you watch in High Quality to be able to see the slides.

Am back on the old laptop at the moment which has made me realise how easy the MacBook is to use!! Have just finished answering some of the queries attached to the latest resource I am producing. Here is a Wordle of the manuscript to give you a flavour: Details about the resource can be found here . There has been talk of Open Source textbooks on the SLN forum at the moment. I really like this idea and there are some plans underway for Folens to provide online updates of their Geography@Work series. I will let you know more as this develops. Wordle images created using www.wordle.net and used through a Creative Commons licnece