West Highland Way and A Long Way Down
Blogs are a great way of recording journeys, especially when they can integrate podcasts, videos and photos. Three of my sixth year students have been doing the West Highland Way this week, and in the processs raising money for charity. Will put details of the trip on the blog and have started to make up a google map to track their route. I am interested in how pupils can develop this facility,for example in their Duke of Edinburgh’s hikes or in invstigative work.
A good example of this which I have come across is the Long Way Down site, which tracks Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman’s latest long distance adventure on the BBC web site. Ewan and Charlie willl travel down through Europe, and then Africa – from Tunisia to South Africa, via countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia. It is a follow-up to the Long Way Round trip in 2004, where the pair rode their motorbikes from London to New York, travelling east across Europe, Russia and the United States.
