Archive for November, 2007

Some images of Bangladesh…

The presentation I gave to staff tonight about part of my experiences in Bangladesh, the quality is poorer because I’ve had to save the slides as jpegs and reinsert them. Slideshare doesn’t seem to like complex presentations sometimes :) . Not much information as I wanted to speak from personal experience, but some interesting pictures showing school life in the country.

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Readability tool

Nice little tool for those educators using blogs

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I will have to up the language on this blog. Hat-tip Thinking 2.0 .

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Friends of Kirk Hallam Lake and Meadows

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Thanks to David, who directed me to the Friends of Kirk Hallam Lake and Meadows, a community group who have the aim of managing the attractive area around K.H.C.T.C .

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Schmap Internet travel maps

I’m becoming a bit of an amateur photographer, which just shows you how good digital cameras are, I received an email to say that one of my images, of the Sony Centre in Potsdamer Platz, has been used in the new Berlin Schmap travel map. The Berlin visit is a joint MFL-Humanities venture that takes place in Year 10.

 

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Lakeside campus -virtual tour.

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 Wordpress isn’t liking embedded Windows Media player and Mpg files, but I think I’ve come up with a solution. Click on the image for the virtual tour. The video might take some time to buffer. With thanks Atkins/Faithful and Gould. My room is on the second floor, but don’t tell anyone ;) .

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Ilkeston Partnership Sixth Form- Lakeside Campus

Artist impressions have now been released of the new sixth campus, with thanks to Atkins/Faithful and Gould, as a Geographer I always find images interesting, looks brilliant.

The following is an overhead view of the new campus superimposed upon a Google map image.

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The new campus from the outside as seen from approaching the drive.

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Part.2 Bangladesh Travels

Day.2 Journeying into rural Bangladesh and the awarding of title ’Chief Inspector of Bangladeshi Toilets’

Part.1 can be read here.

bangladeshflag After a decent night’s sleep in a comfortable bed, I have an early start at 6.00 a.m., luckily my mobile phone, which even better has a signal, wakes me up . Today we will to travelling into rural Bangladesh, 60 km outside Dhaka to Tanguil, we will visiting our host school which has a world reputation for providing vocational education. After a quick shower, spraying myself with insect repellent, dressing in light business wear, which is basically my College uniform, and packing my bag, I descend in the lift to breakfast.

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Assembly rural Bangladesh style…

With thanks Mike.

 

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