Beyond these 4 walls

Preparing for a session I'm leading after the Easter break...
This is the view of Ely Cathedral from the Old Palace garden.

Image: Alan Parkinson

Ely Bypass work starts

We'll be following some of the progress on this as it gets underway...

Slip, Slide, Collide

One for Year 9 to try out...

BBC crew caught up in Etna eruption

e-waste Video from Greenpeace

For Year 8 to consider

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Dan's Wild Cities Walk

Dan Raven Ellison completed many changes last year, but one of them was to walk across all the cities and National Parks in the UK.
This involved over 2.4 million steps.

Dan wore a special headset as he was walking which was able to record his emotions, and the data from those trips is going to be released later this year.

We're looking forward to Dan visiting King's Ely later in the year.

If you're in Cardiff on April the 19th, why not go and see Dan speak... An Eventbrite page is here

‘What would it be like to walk 1,686km across all of the UK’s 15 national parks and 69 cities while wearing a mind-reading EEG? That’s exactly what Daniel Raven-Ellison did last year to explore how his emotions changed as he explored different kinds of places. Join us for this inspiring talk as Daniel shares stories, thoughts and ideas from his adventures before making the case for a surge of public geography activism. Daniel will go on to share his biggest public geography project, a campaign to make London the world’s first National Park City. You can connect with Daniel in advance of the lecture on Twitter at @DanRavenEllison.’

Wine reception (Viriamu Jones Gallery, Main Building) - 18:00
Keynote lecture - 18:30

Risky World - exposed by mapping

An ESRI StoryMap which shows the range of risks facing particular parts of the world...
Perfect for Year 9

Lego-ifier

Mapping tool which turns world maps into Lego... really excellent...
Nice work by John Nelson and Vanni Zhang.

Tweet tweet

I hope that if you're reading this blog, that you're also following the associated Twitter feed. One of the great benefits of this micro-blogging tool is that you can share a story that catches your eye, or that you'd like to come back to when you have more time, but you can make those public to others. The social bookmarking tools like delicious did this, but with less interactivity and networking potential.
The Twitter feed is @KingsElyGeog
It contains the stories which I find interesting but don't currently have time to work up into a
I usually add the year to which they are relevant as well.