SIG Wales Seminar

You have a month from the time of this post to catch up with an event which I presented at on Wednesday this week for the SIG Wales Volunteer Group.

https://t.co/5IOA8ecjd0. Available for 30 days. Find out more about the Welsh Special Interest Group on the GA website, including details of the Curriculum Scaffolds mentioned in the webinar. You can also follow them on twitter @GASIGWales. 🌍

— Laura Gilleland (@LauraGilleland) November 11, 2021

You can watch me speaking from 4 minutes in - the sound gets a little muffled toward the end - which seems to be happening a little at the moment with my laptop.

The presentation slides are here:

Building a transition Curriculum from GeoBlogs

If anyone has any questions, please get in touch...

2003 : Geography Pages

GA News in 2003 gave an early mention for the Geography Pages website, which I ran for over ten years, and which was one of the top 5 most visited Geography websites on the web for a while (as shown by statistics collected by the Royal Geographical Society) 

It started out as 'Mr P's Geography Pages', back in the day when I had dial up internet access through Liberty Surf and then Tiscali. I also sold it as a CD for a while. It led on to a number of other early opportunities for me to get involved in the wider geographical community.

Memories of GeographyPages welcome - I've posted a few already and will be posting a few more as we get nearer to the present day. 

Follow the link here to access it via Archive.org. The domain is currently hosted by Richard Allaway.

GA Website

The GA website has been in existence since 1998.

The Wayback Machine allows users to go back in time to see how websites used to look.
Here's how it looked in 2002 for example.


Clare Brooks was the website editor before the arrival of Anne Greaves.

Here's how it looked in 2005

It has been refreshed several times since then, and may well be changing again before too long. The current website manager is Aaron Bohlman.

Geographical Association website - now free access for three months

Work has been going on behind the scenes to make this happen for the last few days and earlier today the necessary changes to the website were made for open access to the GA website to be enabled.

There are numerous resources on here which non-members will not have been aware of.
The work that we did for the Action Plan for Geography had to be made freely available, but a great deal of extra resources are provided on the website behind the members' paywall.

I am very pleased to say that I had a part in quite a few of them during my time working for the Association, and before and since, including numerous resources, teacher support and CPD courses.

I am also currently working on some extra guidance for teachers and resources which I hope will be added to the site in time for the Summer term, when we shall still probably be locked down.

We're committed to geography education. With most children now being asked to stay at home, we have made all our teaching resources fully open access for the next three months. You don't need to be a member or log in 👉 https://t.co/VDU8nhSelR #geographyteacher pic.twitter.com/wniSV8CGqQ

— Geographical Assoc (@The_GA) March 24, 2020

Please consider joining the GA during the next six months or so. 

If you think, for example about the amount of photocopying, green pens and Pritt sticks youll save on that makes sense. Also think of your personal commuting costs, Costa coffees and other things you are going to be saving by working from home too.

Perhaps order something from the shop too. The new digital fieldwork series are available as instant downloads.

My new book Fieldwork book with John Widdowson was due to be available but that won't happen for a while now.