How do you know what you don’t know? - Issue 52
Newsletter suggestions, workshop opportunities, a faster geographyalltheway.com and AI mapping.
⚙ Operational notes
Mock exams seem to have dominated the past month!
🌍 All Geographers
Two newsletters that may interest you.
📊 Daily Data Insights
Bite-sized insights on how the world is changing every weekday, directly into your inbox from the wonderful 🔗 Our World in Data. Click on Subscribe in the top right-hand corner.
It is possible to use a tool such as 🔗 Readwise Reader or 🔗 Feedly to subscribe to newsletters (and RSS feeds) so you can read them in one place rather than having them clogging up your email inbox.
🌳 Living Geography
The legend Alan Parkinson is doing a ‘weekly highlights’ version of his 🔗 Living Geography blog as a substack. Subscribe below →
🧑🎓 IB DP Geographers
📑 Getting your students exam ready - Saturday 22nd March 2025
The next workshop from Matt Podbury and I at International Geography.training is on Saturday, 22nd March 2025, from 10h00 to 13h30 CET.
Mock examination season is almost upon us, and it is time to take stock of the knowledge, understanding and skills that will underpin the likely success of our Geography students in their first attempt at a semi-realistic summative assessment. This workshop will introduce you to a range of strategies to aid student preparation, as well as the effective time management of revision to combat stress and aid well-being.
🇩🇪 International Baccalaureate Category 1 Workshop
Those of you who will be starting teaching IB DP Geography at the start of the next academic year, or those of you who have new staff joining their departments, may be interested in the 🔗 International Baccalaureate Category 1 Workshop I am leading in October 2025 in Berlin.
⬆ Updates
🏃 A faster geographyalltheway.com
geographyalltheway.com has got faster? Pages load faster, navigating between pages is faster, and searching for things like 🔗 Key Terms and 🔗 Exam Style Questions should be faster.
🔊 A call for testimonials
geographyalltheway.com has a 🔗 testimonials page. It has been a while since I chased anybody for a new testimonial. If you would like to offer a testimonial about your use of geographyalltheway.com, which will be added to the testimonial page and appear on the site's front page occasionally, please email me.
👓 Random
🧠 Some AI Mapping to explore
🔗 Godview - try the prompt “Show me five glaciers in France” or “Show me ten hot tubs in Iceland”.
🔗 The 15-Minute City - drop a pin on the map, click Generate, and review the AI-generated report of facilities within a 15-minute walk of the pin drop.
🔗 mapsgpt.com - all sorts of options to play with here for AI-generated maps from trip planning to ‘text to map’.