Scribblemaps

Scribblemaps - is the quick and easy way to rapidly make and share maps! It locks onto Google Maps and allows quick and easy annotation and loads more. Another great find by my PLN on Twitter – this time from @colport via #edtech#ukedchat

River & Coast Studies

The Woodlands Schools site, as always, is alive with exciting content and up to the minute information. The two sections that caught my eye today as I was planning activities for PGCE students were about the River Severn and the River Thames.

This is what the site says for itself:

The longest river in England
In April 2007, Winnie the Pooh travelled down the River Thames in his boat. It took him several months and he had a fantastic time visiting many of the towns and villages along the way.

The longest river in the UK
In April 2009, Winnie the Pooh decided to meet up with two friends, Berty Beaver and Percy Penguin, to travel down the River Severn. On their journey they learned about the different features of a river.

Googlemaps meets Wikipedia

Thanks to my friend Angela Maiers in US for this:

Placeopedia, a simple site where you can connect Wikipedia articles with places, and then make use of our database either to browse, or syndicate the whole lot. We hope that lots of people will connect places they know with their corresponding Wikipedia article, and then our syndicated data can be used as a general geographic lookup table for Wikipedia.

Visual Geography

A new (?) web site, Visual Geography which lets you: explore the world through images, flags, money, language, maps and other information. is well worth the visit.

Thanks to the Kent Trust Blog for the ‘heads up’ on this one.