Archive for the ‘Innovation from Others’ Category

Weather and Climate by Tom

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Tom Biebrach has adapted my weather and climate task using webcams, he has produced a Google map with links to different webcams. The task is accompanied by a worksheet. Nice work.

Geography in Panorama

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Some nice work from Hugh Mothersole on the Wycombe High School website about the use of panorama images in the Geography classroom.

UK webcams in Google Earth

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

This one looks worth investigating, a set of U.K. based webcams linked to Google Earth. 

A brilliant range of live feed and static, but periodically updated, web-cams that covers the whole of the United Kingdom,  all nicely classified according to place marks. 

It could make a nice resource for a weather or place related task. 

The original file was produced by Google Earth Community member Weatherman 22. Hat-tip Google Earth Library.

New Webcam Wall

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Thanks to Paul Day who has sent me a webcam wall (138 k.b.), particularly like the use of timezones on this one.

Camstreams…

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Thanks to Helen, who has directed me to Camstreams , particularly like the Loch Ness camera. Helen has also sent me an example of a web-cam wall (PPT 139kb) she has produced.

Bushloe Live!

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Thanks to Mark for pointing me towards his website, where is he has already been making good use of Google Gadgets. :) He point out on Pilot Geography, that sometimes the webcam gadget lacks reliability. :(

Adding Webcams to your Blog or Website.

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Some of you may have come across this before, this Google Gadget allows you to embed webcams in your blog or website, sadly it doesn’t allow for live video streaming webcams, but it updates nicely. This is the Geographers favourite webcam from South Georgia, watch out for penguins.

I imagine though, that if you are devising a task based around certain webcams, this gadget may come in useful when devising a simple Intranet or Internet page, hence avoiding the need to access various links.

 

New from Hugh…

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Hugh has added two new useful pages of webcams on the Wycombe High School site.

The first mirrors a task that I produced, and is hosted on the SLN site ( scroll down the page.), a couple of years ago, Live Weather Links .

Also on the SLN site is another task I produced, asking students to find live cam pictures of places they would like to visit in the world, map them and write explanations. Looks a bit old hat now, but could do with a revisiting.

The second is a page relating to Time zones, it links nicely with a study of Longitude and Latitude.

Great work.

Hunt the webcam.

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

I like this idea, involving webcams and Google Earth by Noel Jenkins.