Geographical Association

Blogging is an increasingly popular way of using the web to communicate your thoughts and ideas to other people. Many teachers are using blogs to talk to their students and other educators, and as ever, geographers are leading the way.

We've created an A-Z list of geography blogs which we hope will become the definitive directory - get in touch if you'd like to add or amend a listing.

Thanks to Pauline Wright and members of the SLN Forum for creating the original list.

Head over to Alan Parkinson's Living Geography Blog to find out more about using the 'social web' in the classroom.

Blog: A Blog's not just for Christmas!
Description: Or...using blogs to enhance year-round teaching and learning
Creator: Val Vannet

Blog: Abbeyfield Humanities
Description: This humanities blog has been created by Mr Drake to support learning in Geography, History & RS/Philosophy and Ethics at Abbeyfield School, Chippenham.
Creator: Dave Drake

Blog: AdvancedExtension@GeoBytes
Description: This blog supports students at St Ivo studying for the Geography Advanced Extension Award (WJEC)
Creator: Rob Chambers

Blog: Ayrshire Geography
Description: Information for pupils studying Geography in school ages 11 - 18 in Scotland. Geography 'in your face'.
Creator: Val Adam

Blog: CreAtive Minds
Description: Real World Learning for Katikati College, New Zealand
Creator: Mr Cranston

Blog: CromGeog
Description: Blog for geography students at Cromwell Community College
Creator: Matt Burdett

Blog: Cultural Geography
Description: Cultural Geography and Geography in the Media. For students and teachers of Geography.
Creator: Alan Parkinson

Blog: David Rogers
Description: Curriculum Leader for Geography in Portsmouth - a collection of thoughts, ideas and Ofsted news.
Creator: David Rogers

Blog: Digital Geography
Description: Juciy Geography's web log
Creator: Noel Jenkins

Blog: Dr Laurie's Geog Blog
Description:
Creator: Ewan

Blog: Everyday Geographies
Description: Created to share good ideas about primary geography with teachers and other educational professionals.
Creator: Wendy North

Blog: Funky Geography
Description: For young geographers at Seaford Head Community College and anyone else who is lost without Geography!
Creator: Lizzie Smith

Blog: gcse.geography@aps
Description:
Creator: Paul Sturtivant

Blog: GCSE Geography
Description: This blog has been created to assist Mr Beevers' pupils with their Edexcel GCSE Geography (shortcourse).
Creator: Mr Beevers

Blog: GCSE Geography @ BSCS
Description: This blog has been specifically set up for the 47 students who are taking Geography GCSE at Bradley Stoke Community School.
Creator: Tony Battista

Blog: Geo 11
Description: Resources and Information for Geography in South Gloucestershire and Bristol. Soon moving to http://southglosgeog.ning.com.
Creator: Tony Battista

Blog: GeoActive 2009
Description: This Site is all about supporting Geography and Learning
Creator: Richard Hancock

Blog: geogblog@bushloe
Description: The Geography Blog for Bushloe High School Leicestershire
Creator: Bushloe High School

Blog: GeoBlogBytes
Description: The department blog for St Ivo School Geography Department.
Creator: Rob Chambers

Blog: GeoBlogs
Description: Geographical contexts to everyday situations explained
Creator: Alan Parkinson

Blog: GeoBytesGCSE
Description: A blog to support students at St Ivo studying GCSE Geography (OCR A)
Creator: Rob Chambers

Blog: Geofactualidades - Geografias de cá e de lá
Description: A Portuguese blog which in English is called 'Geofacts - Geographies from here and from there'. Scroll down the page for a Google Translation gadget in the right hand column.
Creator: Pedro Damião

Blog: Geogalot
Description: geogalot is my blog about the use of ICT in Geography education and updates made to my online geography resources website - geographyalltheway.com.
Creator: Richard Allaway

Blog: Geogaroundtheworld
Description: This blog will inspire and support New Cairo British International School students studying geography.
Creator: Miss Mills

Blog: Geoggers Online
Description: 'Geoggers Online' is a spin off blog that has been created for all of the enthusiastic geographers at FitzWimarc School. Here you will find photos from our school trips as well as anything that is 'geography in the news'. Don't forget to check out the school website www.geoggers.net!
Creator: Briley Habib (managed by Julia Hammond)

Blog: Geog on the Spot
Description: A site for Mr Cowan's GCSE Geography students...
Creator: Mark Cowan

Blog: Geography and all that Jazz
Description: Random musings from the GeographyPages bloke...
Creator: Alan Parkinson

Blog: Geography at the Movies
Description: Short films for use in the classroom as starters or inspiration
Creator: Adam Lawson, but now managed by Mary Cooch

Blog: Geography GCSE
Description: This is a blog to help the GCS year 11s with their revision.
Creator: Helen Nurton

Blog: Geography: My Place and Yours
Description: I would like this blog to be a place where I can help you understand the wonderful world of Geography. Whenever I come across something which is relevant to the topics we are studying in school or to Geography in general, I will post it here.
Creator: Val Vannet

Blog: Blog: Geography Rocks
Description: A geog blog for GCSE students at Bury Church
Creator: Miss Sumner

Blog: Geography Schemes of Work
Description: Welcome to Geography Schemes of Work. This blog is made up of Geography SoW in word files. They are free to download and use as an education tool within Geography Departments.
Creator: Sarah Hack

Blog: Geography Songs
Description: Music/songs with accompanying lesson ideas for use in the secondary geography classroom.
Creator: Helen Gosnell

Blog: Geography Superhoops
Description: Supporting you in your Pilot GCSE Journey... (Barking Abbey School)
Creator: GeogQPR

Blog: Geography:You would be lost without it!
Description: A blog for my new GCSE Geography students, taking GCSE AQA Geography in June 2008? (and occasionally Year 8 students taking WJEC Humantities GCSE in 2009)
Creator: Sue Jackson

Blog: Geogtastic!
Description: Where would you be without geography?
Creator: Victoria Ellis

Blog: Give Geography Its Place (GGiP)
Description: Give Geography its Place is a campaign to raise the profile of Geography in the media.
Creator: Various

Blog: Google Earth Blog
Description: The amazing things about Google Earth (not officially affiliated with Google)
Creator: Frank Taylor

Blog: Google Earth Users' Guide Project
Description: A project funded by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) with an Innovative Geography Teaching Grant to develop teaching ideas for using Google Earth in the Geography classroom.
Creator: Alan Parkinson

Blog: Great Geography
Description:...for the great geographers at Okehampton College
Creator: Miss Blackmore

Blog: Guerrilla Geography
Description: Independent geographers, to cause thought, connected thinking, and stimulate the public and to wear down public resistance to geography, usually carried on by a number of small groups behind public(s) lines, or in occupied spaces. Partisan Geography or Guerrilla Geography is irregular (direct action) educating.
Creator: Daniel Raven-Ellison

Blog: HSD Iceland Fieldtrip
Description: A blog for students going on the High School of Dundee trip to Iceland.
Creator: Val Vannet

Blog: Humanities AST Wiltshire
Description: This humanities blog is designed with history and geography teachers in mind - a place to share ideas and resources.
Creator: Dave Drake

Blog: HUMS Learning Hub
Description: This hums blog has been created to support students who are studying History, Geography and RE at Dixons City Academy.
Creator: Various

Blog: IB Geography
Description: This blog site is aimed at supporting students who are studying IB Geography at St Andrew's College and forms a collection of articles and websites that can be used for extra reading and research for essay work, fieldwork and extended essays. While it is intended for the IB students, the site can be used by anyone studying geography.
Creator: Rob Micallef

Blog: ICT Across the Curriculum
Description: Using New Technologies in the Classroom
Creator: Rob Chambers

Blog: ICT in my Classroom
Description: Space for me to explore my ideas and experiences of ICT in my classroom.
Creator: Tom Barrett

Blog: igeog
Description: The online musings of a geography teacher with an interest in the use of online technologies to enhance the teaching and learning of geography in schools.
Creator: Rob Chambers

Blog: Impolite Geography
Description: Provocations on geography in education from David Lambert and John Morgan.
Creators: David Lambert and John Morgan

Blog: James's Blog
Description: Dr James O Jenkins is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management at the University of Hertfordshire. He created this blog for his university students, and anybody else who is interested in environmental and geographical issues, with the aim of helping to improve their learning experience.
Creator: Dr James O Jenkins

Blog: John Barlow
Description: Head of Geography, and Acting Head of Humanities, at Maghull High School, Liverpool. A collection of ideas and thoughts that relate to Geography and Education.
Creator: John Barlow

Blog: Katine: It starts with a village
Description: Latest news from our Ugandan development project
Creator: The Guardian
For every paying delegate at the GA Annual Conference 2009, we are contributing £1 to the Katine Project

Blog: KES Geography Department Pilot Geography Blog
Description: The key resource for KES students taking the GCSE (Pilot) Geography (OCR 1949) course, starting in September 2006 or September 2007. (No longer updated, but useful for planning for new OCR 'A').
Creator: Alan Parkinson

Blog: Kings Grove Geog Blog
Description: An online diary and resource centre for King's Grove Geographers
Creator: Various

Blog: Living Geography
Description: Dispatches from a Geographical life as Secondary Curriculum Development Leader of the Geographical Association.
Creator: Alan Parkinson

Blog: Living Planet Blog
Description: Interesting stories and news about our planet's natural history from specialist tour operator Discover the World.
Creator: Lorraine Silvester

Blog: Look at it this way
Description: A blog to provide ideas on teaching LANDSCAPES (a companion blog to the KS3 Toolkit book of the same name)
Creator: Alan Parkinson

Blog: miketidd.com
Description: Geographical thoughts and resources from a Head of Geography teaching in Dorset
Creator: Mike Tidd

Blog: Mr White does Geography
Description: A site devoted to Geography resources for GCSE and A level students.
Creator: Mr White

Blog: New Edexcel Geography for 2008
Description: Preparations for the new Edexcel Geography specification for teaching from September 2008.
Creator: Alan Parkinson

Blog: Noel Jenkins @ Court Fields
Description: This is the website for Noel Jenkins’s students. It will eventually contain useful resources for students, ideas for homework and independent study and examples of student work.
Creator: Noel Jenkins

Blog: Odblog
Description: A weblog designed to share Geography resources with students and colleagues
Creator: Kenny O' Donnell

Blog: OllieBray.com
Description: Deputy Headteacher at Musselburgh Grammar School, East Lothian, Scotland. Find out what life is like at the end of the bottom corridor as I share my thoughts on School Leadership, SQH, Outdoor Education and New Technologies for Teaching and Learning.
Creator: Ollie Bray

Blog: Pembroke Geography Blog
Description: Geography is EVERYWHERE and EVERYONE!
Creator: Adam Lewis

Blog: pilotgcseradicalgeography.co.uk
Description: GCSE Geography Pilot/OCR A
Creator: Tony Cassidy

Blog: Porcarorama
Description: Geographical imaginations, urban landscapes, scales and re-scalings around the world...
Creator: Giuseppe Porcaro

Blog: Radical Geography
Description: Radical Geography will be my online deposit for my teaching resources.
Creator: Tony Cassidy

Blog: radicalwebcamgeography.co.uk
Description: Using webcams in Geography teaching
Creator: Tony Cassidy

Blog: sharegeography.co.uk
Description: For Key Stage 3 and beyond…
Creator: Tony Cassidy

Blog: Strange Maps
Description: Weird and wonderful maps
Creator:

Blog: The Geographer
Description: The website for the geography department of The Coopers' Company and Coborn School, Upminster, Essex. It has been designed with their students in mind to aid their learning, motivation and enjoyment of what is a dynamic and exciting subject.
Creator: Paul

Blog: The Geography Department
Description: A blog for the students of Guildford County School
Creator: Helen Nurton

Blog: The Geography Room
Description: A blog for and by the A2 and AS Geography students at Boston Spa School, Yorkshire. A2 -Edexcel B As -AQA
Creator: Sue Jackson

Blog: The Higher Geog Blog
Description: This blog is designed to support HSD pupils (and pupils everywhere) who are studying Higher Geography.
Creator: Val Vannet

Blog: The Kingdown Geography Blog (K.G.B.)
Description: This blog has been created, by Mr O'Callaghan to share Geography online resources and websites with the Geography students of Kingdown Community School Warminster Wiltshire.
Creator: Mr O'Callaghan

Blog: Thinking Geographically
Description: These are some of the thoughts and ponderings of Tim Manson - an ICT-enabled Geography teacher from Ballymena, Northern Ireland
Creator: Tim Manson  

Blog: Timbuktu
Description: These pages have been created to support Year 7s at Bradley Stokes Community School
Creator: Tony Battista

Blog: Tudor Geog
Description: This was set up originally to help with revision for class of 2008 studying AQA syllabus B at Tudor Grange School.
Creator: Ruth Newlands

Blog: WorldlyWise
Description: A blog to support GCSE Geography Students at Chesterton Community College, Cambridge
Creator: Katharine Hutchinson

Blog: Ysgol Rhyngrwyd IGCSE Geography
Description: This a geography wiki for IGCSE Geography students at InterHigh - Ysgol Rhyngrwyd is Welsh for Internet School
Creator: Lindy M

Blog: Ysgol Rhyngrwyd KS3 Geography
Description: This a geography wiki for Years 7, 8 an 9 at InterHigh - Ysgol Rhyngrwyd is Welsh for Internet School
Creator: Lindy M