What I learnt in Geography this week.....

My Geography teacher has started an experiment which involves me writing about what I have learnt in my lessons and about any geographical news that interests me. My Geography teacher is also going to write a blog about what she teaches me (and therefore what I should have learnt!) and hopefully the two blogs will match up. The idea is that this will not only help me to consolidate what I learn but that it will also help fellow students do the same and keep up to date with current issues.

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Sunday, 2 February 2014

Exploring Our Oceans MOOC

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Just a quick post - there will be more on the way! Are you a student trying to work out what to study at university? Or someone just looking...

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Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Where would the British be without the Gulf Stream!?

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Hello everyone! Hopefully everyone is enjoying the new climate module! Millie has written a very useful and succinct summary (something I ne...

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Friday, 23 September 2011

Geography Picture of the Week - Highest resolution global map of ocean surface salinity

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First up, the most observant of you will notice that I have changed my 'Geography Picture of the Day' to 'Geography Picture of t...

Thursday, 15 September 2011

ENSO: a kind of synopsis

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It looks like we are going to be doing a lot of purely Human Geography for a while and so, as well as writing a post about what I learnt abo...

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Friday, 2 September 2011

Met Office Work Experience - Day 5 (for 25-08-2011)

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I realise that these posts on what I did at the Met Office are like a week late but I thought that, because I had such a great time and lear...

Thursday, 1 September 2011

Met Office Work Experience - Day 4 (for 24-08-2011)

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Last week I was fortunate enough to go back to the Met Office for a few more days and, yet again, I learnt so much, so I thought I would try...

Monday, 22 August 2011

Geography Picture of the Day - Formation of the Gulf Stream

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I have spent some time this afternoon trying to create a way of representing the formation and journey of the Gulf Stream with minimal text...

Saturday, 20 August 2011

Inertia Currents

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You may have got the impression from some of more recent blog posts that I have been spending quite a lot of my summer holidays trying to le...

Some external forcing factors with the ability to distrupt the general ocean circulation

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As I have briefly discussed before, with reference to Heinrich events, the current ocean circulation pattern that exisits has not always do ...

Sunday, 14 August 2011

Heinrich Events

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Heinrich events were first described in 1988 by the German marine geologist, Hartmut Heinrich, whose study demonstrated that six times durin...

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Vicki The Geography Student: Whilst studying A-levels in Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Maths and History, I became completely fascinated by the Earth Sciences and found them particularly good for feeding my natural curiosity, providing answers to my never ending list of questions! Despite my relentless enthusiasm and frequent question asking, I was quite a quiet student in comparison to the rest of my class so my teacher asked me to start this blog as part of her experiment to test the benefits of incorporating social media into education. The aim was to find out if social networking can be a valuable educational tool and discover how much I actually learnt in lessons. It proved to be a huge success, for both myself and other students, with all my A-level notes still available for students use. I am currently at University studying BSc (Joint Honours) ‘Physical Geography with Oceanography’ and still asking way too many questions! In an attempt to continue to share my love for anything Earth Science-related, and to see if it can have the same benefits at Higher Education, I am trying to continue the blogging and use of social networking. I hope it proves to be a useful and interesting read!

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