Blooks
I read this great article yesterday about blooks (blogs that get turned into books). Blogs like Frank Warren’s Post Secret which gets people to post their own homemade secret confessional postcards which are both funny and heart warming and very popular. One for all geographers out there…..
The most interesting part of the article was the part about “flicktion” (stories inspired by pictures on photo sharing sites such as flickr). The Doorbells of Florence is a collection of photographs of Florentine doorbells, each accompanied by a story about the people or things that are inside. Thses stories are fantasticlly creative. I love the one about the alaphbetical names.
Writing about photos is something I have tried with pupils, but this adds a whole new dimension. I could see some great applications in English especially. Some geographical images may inspire interesting responses. This is something i’m going to explore. Possibly an opportunity for some cross-curricualr work.
March 16th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
alright Neil, just came across ur blog from some random site so thought i’d say hey. Week’s are fairly flyin by now, jobs r pretty few n far between……..but its better than sitting 2 days a week in uni! Hope life’s treatin ya well durin the “exam crunch” season n ur not whitling ur days away downloadin u tube movies…….i’m truly addicted
March 21st, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Grat to hear from you. How are you getting on? Still in touch with anyone from uni?
i too am addicted to youtube….a big improvement on some of the slighlty (!!) dated geography films