The first change is this blog, I’ve got rid of the old site and replaced it with a blog. After ten years of teaching I want to become more reflective with my practice, so will be using this space for my random thoughts about teaching and learning.

People speak about having an ‘audience’ for your blog, with the exception of student and resource sharing blogs, I always thought the audience was the writer, with comments from outside observers, contributing and developing the practitioner’s internal, but externally projected, dialogue.

So, gone but not forgotten are…

Pilot GCSE Radical Geography – this was my first blog, aimed at students following OCR Pilot Geography course, but the course expires this year and my final cohort are nearing the end. We have also changed to the CCEA examining group.

Radical Webcam Geography – a project I was involved in, but really didn’t do it justice.

Teaching and Learning Forum – again, just didn’t really work- though it was praised by OFSTED, I couldn’t engage with it, mostly because I think I was writing generally, rather than from a practice point of view.

Not wishing to lose some of the better posts, I’ve exported them to Share Geography, where they have been archived and can be searched.

Another domain discarded is we still love rocks , a bit of a joke really, after a conversation about Geographers not liking to teach geology…

I’ve have realised that I have, somewhat, an obsession with the longest domain names I can think of…

I’m also working on a Geography-free project, which ironically will need a short domain name-