“Around the world by mouse”
This is the title of a book by travel writer Harry Pearson, but with a difference. Harry went on an epic trip around the world, braving many adventures……all without leaving his office. The entire book is based on his internet reseach, drawing on facts, figures, photos, clips from YouTube and blogs to paint a picture of his travels.
As an experiment, my S2 class, in the remaining time available before the end of term are going to try their own small scale version, in which they write a collaborative travel article where each pupil is asked to
- write a description
- post a picture
- copy and paste a map,
of somewhere in the world that they would like to visit. They must try to convey a sense of place. so, they need to think about effective langauge, vivid phrases, accuracy and geographical detail. I am hoping, too, that they will learn something about collaborative working and begin to appreciate the facility of wikis to create, share and edit a piece of work. Their posts will go on the GeoWiki, a wiki I created initially for my own geography pupils, but which I hope to develop further.
