David Rogers

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.

What a week so far! Will get around to updating a number of blogs and conference posts tonight. In the meantime, here are the handout notes for the textbook workshop. The notes details about the ideas and the pages used to illustrate the ideas. The video will be available soon! The handout is available here

Thought I'd share a couple of the excellent ways in which my iPhone was employed at the GA Conference. Beer o'clock I received an email from Richard Allaway at the end of day 1. I'd earlier met Richard for the first time. As you can see Rich's email contained a link to this: The pin was the location in which Rich and some other colleagues were enjoying a post-conference ale. Needless to say I was able to use the map to join the others. What a great use of Google Maps, the iPhone and the GPS capabilities of the phone.

Professor Stuart Lane gave an interesting lecture on climate change. Certainly called in to question how this subject is taught in schools. A main point through the talk focused around using current events to illustrate the effects of climate change. If I think about it, this is a common method of communicating the possible effects of climate change to young people. However, the danger of doing this is that the events are often part of a more complex pattern, and nothing to do with climate change. I was also interested in the language used. For example, 'possible' all indicating that it is very difficult to find 100% consensus on the subject. Another interesting point was that those members of society that work the land have a better understanding of the changes happening. The majority of us are insulated from the effects of climate change and only really see the extreme events. The danger in using events to illustrate climate change was illustrated by using the following examp...