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		<title>Sea level rise and Google Earth / Maps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great day with Priory School yesterday, examining the issue of sea level rise  in the Portsmouth area. We trialled a number of hands-on sessions, which were great fun and will write about these when we have media releases completed to use the photos of students working on the beach. For now, here are some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitalexplorer.com/2012/05/19/sea-level-rise-and-google-earth-maps/</link>
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		<title>Google Geo Teachers Institutes announced for London and Dublin, June 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news that the Google Geo Teachers Institute will be coming to England and Ireland this summer. The two day professional development events are free and are designed to help teachers get the most out of Google&#8217;s suite of Geo tools including Google Earth, Google Maps and SketchUp. Dates for the events are June 13-14 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitalexplorer.com/2012/04/18/google-geo-teachers-institutes-announced-for-london-and-dublin-june-2012/</link>
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		<title>Lack of wellies &#8211; a shocking situation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo credit: Steinsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wellies.jpg) When we started with the oceans education programme last year, we were adamant that part of it would involve taking young people to experience the sea first hand. We had imagined that there would be various barriers &#8211; teacher time, cost of transport, perceived safety risks, etc., etc. I have now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitalexplorer.com/2012/03/27/lack-of-wellies-a-shocking-situation/</link>
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		<title>Hodder Education Blog #3: Where is all the sea ice going and why does it matter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hodder invited Jamie to write a short series of blog posts on Oceans learning; here is the third and final instalment. In his third and last blog post on the oceans, Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop, looks at the topic of sea ice, the possibility of an ice-free Arctic, and what this means for habitats, the climate, commerce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitalexplorer.com/2012/03/19/hodder-education-blog-3-where-is-all-the-sea-ice-going-and-why-does-it-matter/</link>
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		<title>Hodder Education Blog #2: Ocean acidification &#8211; the &#8216;other carbon problem&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hodder invited Jamie to write a short series of blog posts on Oceans learning; this is the second. In his second blog post on the oceans, Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop, looks at the topic of ocean acidification and how it can be investigated in the geography classroom. Ocean acidification is known as the ‘other carbon problem’. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitalexplorer.com/2012/03/12/hodder-education-blog-2-ocean-acidification-the-other-carbon-problem/</link>
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		<title>Are we wrong about Pakistan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the Journey to Pakistan team sent us this thoughtful Telegraph article this morning; what a relief to read it. Honest, uplifting, and definitely worth a read, if only that it&#8217;s rare to find such a piece! Ties in very well with our team&#8217;s experiences in 2010 which we&#8217;ve since turned into resources for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitalexplorer.com/2012/03/06/are-we-wrong-about-pakistan/</link>
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		<title>Identity.. home &amp; away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be a sudden overload of provocative programmes and articles cropping up, all examining that elusive beast, &#8216;identity&#8217;. Militant secularism threat to religion, says Warsi &#8211; BBC News Proud and Prejudiced &#8211; Channel 4. The story of two of the most controversial men in Britain. Tommy Robinson, a tanning salon manager, is the leader [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitalexplorer.com/2012/03/05/identity-home-away/</link>
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		<title>Hodder Education Blog #1: Why teach about the oceans?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hodder invited Jamie to write a short series of blog posts on Oceans learning; here&#8217;s the first. In the first of three blog posts on teaching more about the oceans in geography, Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop, tells us why the oceans are so important and gives readers some ideas about teaching about ocean currents when teaching climate. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitalexplorer.com/2012/03/05/hodder-education-blog-1-why-teach-about-the-oceans/</link>
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		<title>Digital Explorer shortlisted for two ERA Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very exciting that Digital Explorer has been shortlisted in two categories for 2012 ERA Awards. The winners will be announced at a gala event to be held at the National Mororcyle Museum in Birmingham on the second evening of The Education Show 2012. The Frozen Oceans resources have been shortlisted in the Best Secondary Resource [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitalexplorer.com/2012/02/13/digital-explorer-shortlisted-for-two-era-awards/</link>
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		<title>Gove&#8217;s yacht idea, a good one&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t likely to be the most popular blog post I&#8217;ve written, but I believe that in amongst Gove&#8217;s idea to buy the Queen a yacht are some genuinely good ideas. Here&#8217;s what happens in my mind&#8230; Before the much scorned memo is circulated, someone at the Department for Education gets hold of it and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://digitalexplorer.com/2012/01/16/goves-yacht-idea-a-good-one/</link>
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