Case Study: Cumbria Floods.

Here are some resources based on the recent floods in Cumbria.

Cumbria Flooding

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Thanks to Geography teacher Mark Ollis who experienced the floods first hand and helped me with some of the information. To all the people in Cumbria and in the words of Prince Charles, 'Keep up that Cumbrian Spirit' :)

The 2009 Edublog Award

The Edublog Awards are for 'Celebrating the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology'.


-Best Resource Sharing Blog
Tony Cassidy (www.sharegeography.co.uk) is my biggest inspiration to my own teaching and i know that so many others would agree. My students love his work! :)

Floods in Cumbria...

This week has seen record levels of rainfall flooding parts of Cumbria and border regions. More than 1,300 homes were flooded and many left without power or mains water supplies. Cockermouth was one of the worst affected places, where water levels reached 2.5m (8ft 2in), more than 200 people were rescued by emergency services - 50 by RAF helicopters.




Lots more information can be found at:
BBC News
The Guardian
The Daily Mail
The Times

Stormy weekend...

Quite liked this image from the Daily Mail...
Storm-force winds lift this man off the ground in Dorset
Thanks to Angus Wilson via Twitter.

If the world were a village of 100 people...

If the world were condensed to a village of 100 people, what would it look like? Toby Ng has produced a set of 20 creative posters that capture these statistics in simple terms.



Thanks to @globaldimension (via Twitter) for the find.

Cadbury Ghana Advert....

Thanks to Ben in 8A for pointing out this advert in a discussion about Fair Trade.

Fallon has created a campaign, which features print ads designed and painted by Ghanaians using traditional Ghanaian techniques, and a TV ad filmed in a Ghanaian village. Tinny, one of Ghana’s biggest music stars, features in the advertising along with High Spirits, regarded as one of the country’s best dance troupes. The initiative is aimed at emphasising Cadbury’s 101 year-history of trading with Ghanaian cocoa farmers.



I am interested in your thoughts. What do you think about the ad? How does it portray Ghana?

QR Codes: Can you decode this?

QR stands for ‘Quick Response’ as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be downloaded at a high speed. It is very popular in Japan and is starting to catch on in Europe.

The idea is that with a mobile phone which has a camera, you can scan a QR code, and be taken to a website, or be given a phone number or piece of text.

Your phone will need a camera and a QR Code Reader so that you can decode them....

If you have an iphone, download Neo-reader for free from the Apps store. If you have a recent Nokia phone, you are likely to have a QR code reader pre-installed - check in the Office bit of your phone menu.

You can download a reader for many mobile phones- type "QR code reader" and the model of your mobile phone into Google. Alternatively, here is a website that provides a link to readers for other types of mobiles.

Once you've got your QR code reader sorted, have a go at decoding this....