About
I’m Jim McDougall, born in Greenock; now living in Clarkston. In August 2007 I moved from St Columba’s School, Kilmacolm to become Depute Rector (Ethos) at Hutchesons’ Grammar School, one of Scotland’s largest independent schools. My teaching background is in Geography (and Modern Studies) and I was an examiner in Standard Grade Geography for many years. Previously have taught in St Stephen’s High Port Glasgow, King’s School, Guterlsoh, Germany and at Tarbert Academy. I have enjoyed each school-all very different! Have developed an interest in blogging and other “web 2.0″ technologies through following the work done by fellow geographer Ollie Bray, and more recently a host of other bloggers like Don Ledingham and Ewan McIntosh . Fascinated by how web 2.0 will impact upon learning and teaching-something I’d love to research.
Away from school I love cycling, walking, reading, especially travel literature, (eg Patrick Leigh Fermour and Paul Theroux, for example) history, nature (David Attenborough) and am passionate about jazz and classical music; currently trying to revisit scales and get to grips with some Bach inventions on the piano right now.
Hi Doug,
great to see you are interested in music too. Maybe we can to a duet using social medi technologies… No seriously, I studied piano and trumpet at University then decided to keep my music as a hobby. This might explain why I do a ot of podcasting with the children and encourage the use of voice rather than text. Look forward to reading about your new post.
Sharon
Hi Jim,
Have you considered using midi files for practice of the 2 Part Inventions? Try http://www.bachcentral.com/midiindexcomplete.html – it might make “hands separately” practice a bit more meaningful. In the case of the quick ones, there are various programs in which you can slow them down when first trying out a new one (just give me a shout if you need any further pointers on this). Enjoy your holidays!
Hi Jim
Just followed your details from the Teachmeet wiki.
Great to see another geographer there.
I have been blogging since 2003 at my GeoBlogs page, part of my GeographyPages website.
Been up to SAGT for the last 3 years – maybe you attended one of my sessions ? – and coming up again in October.
Very keen on Flickr and blogged about it lots http://geographyjazz.blogspot.com
Just started as Curriculum Development Leader for the Geographical Association after 20 years of teaching. Blogging my work there at http://livinggeography.blogspot.com
There may be some items of interest to you…
See you at Teachmeet
Best wishes
Alan