1. 20 12
What happened next ?
Alan Parkinson
Freelance Geographer

2. Resources for students
Ideas to follow-up
The new curriculum...
Curriculum artefacts

3. Conclusions
• Geography is in very good health
• Fieldwork and exploration are on
the rise
• ‘Free’ is still a lot of people’s
favourite price

4. 1. Digital Explorer
• Digital Explorer.com
• Frozen Oceans Pack
• Sustainable Fishing - linked to nef report
• Google Seaview Survey Packs (2013)
• Mackerel story

5. 2 : esri UK
• GIS consultancy
• ArcGIS Online
• Subscription service - ‘live’ mapping in the
field & ‘cloud’ based service
• What do you want from GIS ?

6. 3: Writing
• GCSE Grade Booster
• The Ice Man
• Fieldwork through Enquiry (2013)
• Debates in Geography Education
• iBook (led to work on EBC)

7. 4: Guerrilla Geography
• Washington DC, November 2012
• Geography Awareness Week 2011/12

8. 5: Geography Collective
• Festivals: Hay, Latitude, Glastonbury
• Mission:Explore Food - creative commons
licensed - £15K raised through
crowdsourcing
• London Schools - water
• Sustainable transport

9. 6: GA Primary Champion
• Activity carrying on...
• Stephen Scoffham book
• Transition projects
• ‘Explorer’ workshops

10. 7: European Adventures
• Salzburg University -
geomedia courses -
Comenius funded
• I-USE project - 3 years
• digitalearth.eu
• Geneva Conference
• ‘Europe Academy’

11. 8: GA Activism
• CPD courses
• PGQM/SGQM moderation
• GA Conference
• Writing for GA Magazine
• Social media

12. 9: GoogleWorld Wonders
• World Heritage sites...
• Resources for Santiago de Compostela

13. 10. Discover the World
• Mission:Explore Iceland
• Place based missions
• The world awaits...

14. 11: Where next ?
• Defending my niche ?
• Sustainability ?
• Teaching again
• Change is good...

15. 12: Explorer HQ
• Watch this space...
Illustration: Tom Morgan Jones