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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Obligatory 'on the train to GA' selfie :) Looking forward to seeing so many friends and colleagues from the #GeographyTeacher community very soon!

Katie, a red-headed person wearing a flowery shirt and green framed glasses, is sitting on a train. They are smiling at the camera.

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Dr Anjana Khatwa @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Loading new professional adventure 🫡🥳 First day as the new joint Head of Inclusion and Belonging at the @nationaltrust.bsky.social Amazing team of people, fantastic vision to make nature, beauty & history accessible to all. LETS GO! 🙏🏾💪🏾🩷🌸 #DEI #EDI #Inclusion #nature #nationaltrust

Woman smiling at camera standing in front of a building which is the headquarters of the National Trust. She is wearing a floral shirt and jacket.

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Dan Raven-Ellison @danravenellison.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Looking for some examples of great animations that make good use of maps. Any suggestions of things you've seen and loved??

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David Morgan (He/Him) @dav1dm0rgan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

#GeographyTeacher If you didn't see it the #OneShow on Monday evening was very #Geographical - two great geospatial stories - creating #DigitalTwins of graveyards ( and using Drones + Machine Learning + GIS to carry out seal surveys in Norfolk. Plus Simon Reeve... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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The One Show - 25/02/2025

Award-winning actor Chris O’Dowd and explorer Simon Reeve join Alex Jones and Clara Amfo on the sofa.

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Annatomix @annatomix.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A couple of sneaky foxes painted for the River Rea art trail in Longbridge, Birmingham. This was previously part of the MG Rover factory site, which took 15 yrs to clear of industrial waste. Now it's home to a clean stretch of river that's teeming with wildlife 🌿

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Hello followers - I'm back again looking at spatial variations in the names for common objects! Can you help me out by telling me (anonymously) what you'd call a particular spoon? Click the link to a 5 second survey! arcg.is/1qK1yr1 #Spoon #GeographyTeacher #NorthSouthDivide

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Steve Brace @stevebracegeog.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you are a #GeographicalAssociation member please do vote in our Presidential election. There are two excellent colleagues standing: Fiona Sheriff & Kit Marie Rackley. Full info on both & how to vote in link below: ❎💚🌍 geography.org.uk/election-ga-...

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Election – GA President 2026–27 - Geographical Association

Following the call for nominations for the role of GA President 2026–27, an election is now taking place. Make your voice heard...

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A pleasure to show MapMaker on the @lgfl-ngfl.bsky.social stand today at #BETT :) Some super primary school students showing off their impressive geography skills too! #TeachWithGIS

Katie grinning on the lgfl stand pointing at a screen showing Mapmaker

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I dug up a great Venn diagram by @tomgauld.

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

👇 ICYMI training in the north of England for teachers wanting to use GIS in their classrooms - with bursaries available to support schools to attend. #TeachWithGIS

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Hello #GeographyTeacher! We're pleased to announce our #TeachWithGIS workshops, taking place at the National STEM learning centre in York, are now available to book! More details and booking information can be found here: www-new.stem.org.uk/cpd/541869/b... #STEM colleagues welcome too! ;)

An orange background and picture of a globe. Text reads: GIS for STEM. Discover how you can implement a Geospatial approach in your classroom and empower your students to take Geospatial skills into their future careers. 10:00 - 16:00, National Stem Learning Centre, York. 29-30 Jan 2025. For more information www.teachwithGIS.co.uk

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Natasha Vizcarra @natashavizcarra.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Esri's GIS for Climate Action MOOC opens Feb! Reg here → ow.ly/qFyg50UprKq Join the free course to: 🔹Build new skills to tackle climate change 🔹Learn from climate science experts 🔹Get ArcGIS access Experts include @katharinehayhoe.com @deepseadawn.bsky.social & @globalecoguy.bsky.social

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Map_Addict @mapaddict.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This is what effective StoryMapping looks likes with Year 9 #EAL students and examining the geography of fear. This fieldwork is free! All you need is a device like a phone to collect the data. I am blown away. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e076... #geogchat #geographyteacher #GIS

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Safe Spaces in Barranco

An investigation using Valentine's Geography of Fear

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Steve Brace @stevebracegeog.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

#geographyteachers see below link to 'Geography for all our futures'. It sets out some of opportunitues & challenges facing geog as the GA develops our new 2025-30 strategy. & feedback & views welcome on chiefexec@geography.org.uk geography.org.uk/geography-fo...

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Geography for all our futures - Geographical Association

View our Geography for all our futures, an overview of the key challenges and opportunities for our subject...

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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I guess this is now a tradition from Mr Nelson...geography and Christmas rolled up into one! www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

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Tom R Baker @trbaker.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

You're looking at earthquakes from inside the Earth. 🌏 Created by Raluca Nicola with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript. 🔸Explore the app here: esri.social/BmH650UlkeR #ArcGIS #JavaScript #geoscience #geography #edusky

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A new low, I think, on this year's Wrapped... 🤣🤣🤣

A screen shot from Spotify wrapped declaring "September was your Victorian Tavern Soundtrack moment"

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Tom R Baker @trbaker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

From urban expansion to the shrinking of lakes, the Landsat Explorer app in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way for users to access and interpret #Landsat satellite data. 🛰️ 🔹Learn more: esri.social/OzBu50Uc3rv #ArcGISLivingAtlas

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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The National Archives has been commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to create the Government's new strategic vision for the archives sector. To support them, please complete this survey: smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ArchiveUsers/ #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

🦀🦀🦀🌊🌊⛱️🐚🐚🐚

The sea breaking on the sand at Aberdovey beach

Katie in a yellow jacket and shoes and blue hat, posing with two thumbs up on the jetty at Aberdovey

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

O what a pleasure to teach at Sussex University today, and a chance for this landlocked midlander to see the sea from the new house of old friends 🥲

Sunset over the sea. The sky is light blue fading to a bright red at the horizon. Dark clouds stream the sky. In the foreground the beach is a dark silhouette, the upright pillars of a ground like a fence across the beach.

Marina car park at St Leonard's, Sussex, late on a winters afternoon. The sea and sky are blue, just starting to shade orange, and some fluffy evening clouds are in the sky.

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Map_Addict @mapaddict.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

First StoryMap created by my multilingual students. They used Survey123 to collate the data and StoryMap to present. Fantastic work from Year 9 on Valentine’s theory of the geography of fear #geographyteacher storymaps.com/stories/ea54...

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Safe or Shaken? Exploring Barranco's Geography of Fear

An investigation to prove Valentine in Barranco, Peru

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Alistair Hamill @ahamill.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

#HowIUsedGISToday Great geographical (secondary)data collection today with Y14s. We used AGOL to familiarise ourselves with prior lava fields, then used this graph to find satellite images of each lava flow. Must all data collection be primary? Is remote sensed data collection still fieldwork?

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Alistair Hamill @ahamill.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I love being able to use ArcGIS Online to create bespoke basemaps. This one is a combo of Community basemap, a shaded topography layer with Multiply blending mode, with some Sketch Layers showing some of the key features. Pupils will be using this to analyse lava flows around Grindavik.

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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

An excellent day at #NCSS today. National Geographic MapMaker got a great reception from educators, lots of discussion about the different ways it can be used in the classroom. #freeforschools www.nationalgeographic.org/society/educ...

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

#GeogChat - if you're interested in Education Nature Parks, free GIS CPD or more about what's coming in the world of GIS, drop us a line ;)

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's been another epic week for the #TeachWithGIS team! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Launched the Nature Discovery Map Scotland toolkit! 👀 Previewed incredible virtual fieldwork resources landing in 2025 🖥️ Worked with fantastic DRET geographers on embedding GIS across their curriculum 🧑🏼‍🏫 AND with PGCE students today! Phew!!

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A bit of travel chaos couldn't stop @dav1dm0rgan.bsky.social and me having too much fun with the lovely Oxford Geography PGCE crowd today! #TeachWithGIS

A room of people around a long black table. At the front Katie and Dave are standing with their arms out in front of some aerial imagery in the Way back App on the main screen.

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 20/11/2024

BGS is hosting a free CPD session for primary teachers. Based in the Angela Marmont Centre For UK Nature at the Natural History Museum, the day will focus on expanding your knowledge of geology for lesson plans. Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/primary-sc...

A graphic for the primary teacher CPD course, named 'rocks, fossils and soils with the British Geological Survey'. To the right are images of Arthur's Seat, the Natural History Museum, a trilobite and a thin section of rock.

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This #RecyledRacer loves the snow so much, and was determined we'd walk up the hill today. I think she was right, worth it for the view.

Katie, wearing a buff that covers most of their face, sunglasses and a woolly hat, poses with a happy looking white faced greyhound.

Katie, wearing a buff that covers most of their face, sunglasses and a woolly hat, poses with a happy looking white faced greyhound. There is snow in the background and the dog looks so happy.

Bright blue sky, snow topped hills in the distance. Forest in the middle ground and snow covered tussocky heather in the fore. A beautiful freezing winter day.

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David Morgan (He/Him) @dav1dm0rgan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Happy GIS Day! Sneak-peek at an exciting project. Working with InView Assets to collect hi-res imagery & models of Northam Burrows, Devon. Specific teaching & learning resources using this coming in the new year! How would you use it to enrich your teaching? Explore it here shorturl.at/kKpcO

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David Morgan (He/Him) @dav1dm0rgan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Just realised I forgot to take advantage of yesterdays snow to share the 50 Years of UK Snow Days Map! It's snowy here today too, so we are almost halfway to our average 5.3 days per year! #TeachWithGIS teachwithgis.co.uk/apps/754e5e4...

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Addy Pope @gis4he.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Never have we needed #GIS more to solve the challenges we face. But we also need bright minds to drive it. Find out how to join the Esri family with the @esriuk GIS Day #careers webinar - register.gotowebinar.com/register/194...

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Michael Gould @mgould.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I just recorded a 12-minute video for universities that are celebrating #GISDay. It is focused on "Modern GIS". Let me know if you'd like to use it.

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

What a fantastic presentation to be part of! 💐💐💐 Thanks again to the fantastic Penny, Sue and Sam for taking us through the whys and how's of Nature Discovery Map Scotland today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.nature.scot/professional... to find out more if you couldn't be with us today in Glasgow #LearningPlacesScotland

Sam, Katie, Sue and Penny take a selfie on a blue stage at Learning Places Scotland

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Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I am at the Fredrick Douglas Academy in Detroit today to learn about their GIS Pathway Program www.detroitk12.org/domain/1963 Some impressive young men here! #geographyawarenessweek #geographyteacher

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Joseph Kerski @josephkerski.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Last chance to join me later today for my live GIS Day webcast! Free, fun, relevant. But you need to register beforehand to get the link to attend.

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

And here's Sam taking us through the apps in detail! #LearningPlacesScotland

Sam on stage taking us through the nature Discovery map Scotland apps

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Sue Munro now talking all things Nature Discovery Map Scotland! What the tools are, why they were developed, and how teachers in Scotland can use them in their classrooms. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌳🌲🧑🏼‍🏫 #LearningPlacesScotland

Sue Munro behind the podium on stage 2 at the Learning Places Scotland conference

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Penny Martin setting the scene for the Nature Discovery Map Scotland - when we think of a school is it just the classrooms? Or the outdoor spaces too as locations for learning? How can these provide opportunities for nature connectedness #LearningPlacesScotland

Penny Martin standing on stage behind a podium at Learning Places Scotland

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Silent disco vibes here at #LearningPlacesScotland as Nature Discovery Map Scotland it about to get it's moment in the spotlight!

Katie with a pair of red glowing headphones on, grinning at the camera

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Sam getting ready to talk all about the GIS tools that underpin Nature Discovery Map Scotland at #LearningPlacesScotland ! #GeographyTeacher you'll not want to miss these - an amazing way to engage students in learning outside and around issues of #sustainability and #biodiversity

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Fantastic to be in sunny Glasgow this morning for #LearningPlacesScotland ! Gillian Penny from Apple taking us through the importance of digital literacy in the opening keynote. It's not enough to just hand out devices. And it needs to be technology with learning in mind :)

Gillian Penny on the Stage 1 at Learning Places Scotland

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Katie Hall @geogologue.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Finally trying my hand at this #TrainKnitting malarkey as I travel north today for a conference in Glasgow tomorrow. It's a lot harder for me than @dav1dm0rgan.bsky.social makes it look!! 😅

A green ball of wool with two grey knitting needles struck through it, sitting on a train tray table. A dubious piece of knitting experiment vaguely reminiscent of a pea pod is in front of it.

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