2008-9: a different view

a different view was the GA's manifesto for geography which was developed and published during the Action Plan for Geography, at a time when I was working for the GA. It was the brainchild of Professor David Lambert, and turned out to be one of the outcomes from that time which has had the greatest impact. I still see the posters up in classrooms I visit to this day.

The whole process took months to pull together, along with the associated materials including ideas from Fred Martin and a whole range of others adding teaching materials linked to the image sets which were developed.

Here's an image I came across recently. It's a screenshot of a folder from the time when we were working on, and trying to pull together the text and images. I was later asked to work on the promotional video for the project using Animoto. There's a few images here that made it into the final document, and some that didn't such as the one of the Quiraing and one of a ruined house at Hallsands.

You can still see some of the materials on the web as well.

Here's the video which I worked on, which itself took very many iterations before the timing, music, transitions and images worked nicely. I still show it myself from time to time.

A Different View: Promoting Geography from The Geographical Association on Vimeo.

More to come in other blog posts.

Everybody needs good neighbours

Karl Kennedy from 'Neighbours' was in the same hotel as the GA crew when we went to Wrexham in 2009 to take delegates through the 'Living Geography' series of events that took us around the country. Ruth Totterdell, Jeff Stanfield, Justin Woolliscroft and myself were presenting, and Lucy Oxley was there to welcome the delegates. 

There's a signed copy of the GA's manifesto for geography: "a different view" knocking around somewhere...

I've previously mentioned how John Craven was involved with a previous Worldwise Quiz.

Any other celebrity endorsements and links with the GA that anyone can remember from other events? I remember a (non-GA) event when Bill Oddie apparently ended up going on about how he hated the subject at school or some such... I asked on social media and heard from several people who were at the event and told me some more about it....

Image: Ruth and Lucy with Alan Fletcher

Updated August 2021

Alan Fletcher was one of the Celebrity supply teachers for the BBC