Part 1 of a PowerPoint presentation that I gave at the TES Conference, London, 2nd October 2010: Discover a range of digital learning resources and internet sites which teacher's can use in innovative ways to develop children's creative writing, their geographical imaginations and personal geographies.

1. MapITPictureITWrite IT Geography:an essential part of everyday living in the world Part 1 of the presentation: MapITPictureITWriteIT (Wendy North - TES Conference 2.10.09) Photograph: Sean Flannery, Children from Oyster Park Junior School, Castleford

2. We navigate our way to the shop or the post box Photographs: Wendy North

3. ... or work. Photograph: Wendy North Sheffield

4. We get held up by traffic or have to drive for half an hour to the train station. View from Foxhill looking towards Parsons Cross & Tenter street, Sheffield Photographs: Wendy North

5. We visit places that we like Photograph: Wendy North Whitby Harbour

6. Photograph: brighton/2248514764/ Photograph: chrisjohnbeckett/ 480298779/ ...and avoid ones that we don’t All photographs taken on the Euston Road are from the Flickr website (shared under a Creative Commons License) www.flickr.com Photograph: nicohogg/390394712/

7. Identity Place Photograph: Wendy North Crane Moor, South Yorkshire We choose to buy a house in a particular location because of the way that we `feel’ about that location.

8. So when our teaching is focused on geography how often do we start with children’s everyday experience?

9. Map IT Year 5 children at Methodist J & I in Wakefield started with their `everyday experiences’ of their local area and explored how they `felt’ about places that they know well. Photograph: Wendy North

10. Methodist, J & I - Wakefield Methodist, J & I - Wakefield

11. I feel great at my gran’s because she makes nice toast http://www.quikmaps.com/full/47961 Map source = Google + Quikmaps Methodist, J & I - Wakefield

12. Rebekah’s mum runs the hairdressers – lots of children go here to get their hair cut. This is Shelley First School – we are in Year 1 See the `Young Geographers Project on the GA website: http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/younggeographers/ Map source = Google + Quikmaps

13. Mapping Everyday GeographiesPaula Owens Hirwaun Primary School http://geographical.ning.com/profiles/blogs/national-primary-conference

14. Words from ‘MYWALKS ‘ http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/mywalks/info.php It’s about voicing our own opinions on our neighbourhoods… It’s about exploring what you hear and/or notice yourself hearing as you walk through your local environment… It’s about running your fingers along a wall, picking leaves off a hedge, walking barefoot in the summer… It’s about the smells that take us back to very specific places and times in our past…

15. MYWALKS It’s about… What flicks our switches? What turns us on? What tickles us? What makes us look? What makes us listen? What makes us touch? What disgusts us? What makes us sigh? What frustrates or irritates? What intrigues us? What makes us ask 'how' or ‘why'? http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/mywalks/info.php If we are asking these questions about PLACES then it is geography.

16. How does this help our children to make sense of their own locality? What they know about their local area is essential geographical knowledge Their everyday experience is valued What they feel about particular places matters They begin to learn the layout of their place which helps them to navigate their own locality They begin to see that maps are a valuable means of representing the relationships between people and places, e.g. who lives where, where the swimming baths are located etc.

17. We have the best maps in the world (OS). The development of internet mapping and satellite imagery means that we can now share places with children where maps are non-existent. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113344337477774229301.00046503c2de872341844&ll=13.121141,77.500176&spn=0.005036,0.011222&t=h&z=17