Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Showcase - 2 of 5 - Day 1

Day 1 of the event started with lunch, then it was into a series of sessions relating to the use of technology in fieldwork (naturally) I only knew a few colleagues who were present, but that wasn't a problem as we had an ice-breaker where I met the people sat on my table. I had worked with Brian Whalley from Sheffield University the previous weekend, and exchanged e-mails with several other folks.
We had a session related to iPads and various uses outside the classroom.

There was a carousel where we explored 5 particular uses of iPads...

a) measuring tree height and other measurements, using hypsometers
b) identifying aquatic creatures, or other things in nature, using keys
c) using Fotobabble and Flickr to manipulate and geotag images
d) getting real time hydrograph data in the field - next to the River Severn
e) using data-loggers of various kinds

We then had some free time to explore the grounds, and pop to the bar.
In the evening, after a nice meal it was over to the bar for a few glasses of red, and an excellent post-prandial talk by Richard Spalding from UWE. He talked about some of the changing pedagogy that he had seen through his career, and personal experiences of fieldwork through that time, including a suggestion that the vehicle of choice for geography fieldwork should be the bicycle...

Don't forget my FLICKR photos from the event are in this set.
Thanks to Chris Thomson of JISC, who did a DIGITAL STORYTELLING session for this image of me checking out an iPhone app....
More to come in the next post....

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