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Flossie	Aug 3 2009, 07:21 PM Post #3886
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 6779 Joined: 12-January 09 From: N.E. England Member No.: 52007	QUOTE(bobziekins @ Aug 3 2009, 08:17 PM) QUOTE(Flossie @ Aug 3 2009, 08:15 PM) It's a good job I don't teach IT, then, isn't it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) You teach geography?! Oops (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif) Geography's great!!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Like a lot of subjects, Geography isn't really the same at degree level as it is in school, and I teach in the university sector. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

sarah-flute	Aug 3 2009, 07:26 PM Post #3887
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 25735 Joined: 14-December 04 From: Insomniaville Member No.: 2729	I can remember teasing geography friends at uni that it was a degree in colouring in (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) - but it did sound a lot more interesting at uni level than school teachers managed to make it!

bobziekins	Aug 3 2009, 07:32 PM Post #3888
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 739 Joined: 15-February 09 Member No.: 56010	QUOTE(Flossie @ Aug 3 2009, 08:21 PM) Like a lot of subjects, Geography isn't really the same at degree level as it is in school, and I teach in the university sector. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Probably a lot more interesting at degree level... Sorry, I wrote a whole section about how we don't do our work. But then I decided that was rude, and defacing the subject, so deleted it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif) I just hope it gets more interesting next year. The thing is though, we have it right have music most of the time, so we come from music buzzing after a performance, or learning something new, or a brain teaser with naming notes/transposing/key signatures etc. Then we come to geography (funnily enough, my friend groups are the same in geography and music) and we sit down. The teacher comes in, and says "Today we're going to learn about the different types of erosion!!!!" And step by step, we go through the same things we did in year 8, hydraulic action, attrition, abrasion etc. We do the hand gestures to describe the way a rock erodes "Crack, cave, arch, stack, stump, wave-cut-platform"

FluteDiva!!	Aug 3 2009, 07:50 PM Post #3889
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 300 Joined: 9-January 08 Member No.: 22854	Awww! I loved geography at GCSE, and I wish I'd taken it to A-Level, but it clashed with maths (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) But anyway, we spent the whole time doing projects and presentations, and I won a prize once for the best presentation about Italy because I brought in loads of Italian food that my mum had made for the class to sample (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Obviously the prize had nothing to do with my presentation skills... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/party1.gif)

pianist_flautist	Aug 3 2009, 07:58 PM Post #3890
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 226 Joined: 19-July 09 From: South West Member No.: 70913	I love Geography! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) I'm not doing it for A level though, I wanted to take loads of subjects, but we can only do five maximum! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) I had a really good teacher for GCSE, although he did pressure me slightly just before the exam saying "remember Jacob, nothing less than an A please, you should be getting an A*!" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) He was saying this to everyone as they went in, reminding them of their target grades! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) My favourite part of geography was the physical stuff eg. stuff about waterfalls, cliffs, wave cut platforms, caves, spits etc!

bobziekins	Aug 3 2009, 08:01 PM Post #3891
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 739 Joined: 15-February 09 Member No.: 56010	QUOTE(FluteDiva!! @ Aug 3 2009, 08:50 PM) Awww! I loved geography at GCSE, and I wish I'd taken it to A-Level, but it clashed with maths (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) But anyway, we spent the whole time doing projects and presentations, and I won a prize once for the best presentation about Italy because I brought in loads of Italian food that my mum had made for the class to sample (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Obviously the prize had nothing to do with my presentation skills... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/party1.gif) Projects and presentations? Wow, that sounds like heaven compared to what we do. The only thing is though, A level geography DOES sound fun! And it has nothing whatsoever at all to do with the fact that there's a trip to Ghana, and a trip to Iceland...

FluteDiva!!	Aug 3 2009, 08:09 PM Post #3892
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 300 Joined: 9-January 08 Member No.: 22854	Oooh Iceland (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) That sounds fab! Hmmph - the only school trip I went on this year was a biology field trip to a national park, where we stood thigh-deep in a river to collect...well...stuff (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) and we had to stay in tents (hate camping (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) ) Ahh! Avoid field trips at all costs! (But unoffical school trips are perfectly acceptable - eg. when it snowed, no-one in my village could get to school, so we all went sledging in our games kits (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Then we went back to school the next week, and realised it probably wasn't the smartest move to advertise the fact that we hadn't gone to school for 4 days!

Jacobi	Aug 3 2009, 08:10 PM Post #3893
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 571 Joined: 10-March 09 From: Nottingham Member No.: 58524	QUOTE(sarah-flute @ Aug 3 2009, 08:26 PM) I can remember teasing geography friends at uni that it was a degree in colouring in (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) - but it did sound a lot more interesting at uni level than school teachers managed to make it! Fondly remembers coloring in lots of stuff in Geography whilst at School... Do you get more coloring pens at uni then? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

bobziekins	Aug 3 2009, 09:02 PM Post #3894
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 739 Joined: 15-February 09 Member No.: 56010	QUOTE(FluteDiva!! @ Aug 3 2009, 09:09 PM) Oooh Iceland (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) That sounds fab! Hmmph - the only school trip I went on this year was a biology field trip to a national park, where we stood thigh-deep in a river to collect...well...stuff (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) and we had to stay in tents (hate camping (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) ) Ahh! Avoid field trips at all costs! They honestly can't be as bad as our geography trips... In year 7, we went to Bluewater and our local town. We recorded each type of shop, and then had to think of a questionaire to ask the shoppers at each place. The thing is though, there were about 200 of us there, on the same day, at the same time, swarming around the shoppers asking them pointless, instrusive questions "why do you shop here? how did you get here?" and each shopper had probably been approached at least 5 times, so just glared at us. Then in year 8, we went to a country park, and walked over fields filled with sheep ######, for miles and miles, before eventually coming to rest on a rainy day on a beach for an hour to eat lunch, then walking back. But the year 9 trip was an art trip, so we went to the National Portrait Gallery, which was AMAZZINGG!

CJB	Aug 3 2009, 09:32 PM Post #3895
Prodigy Group: Members Posts: 1957 Joined: 5-July 05 Member No.: 4076	QUOTE(bobziekins @ Aug 3 2009, 10:02 PM) QUOTE(FluteDiva!! @ Aug 3 2009, 09:09 PM) Oooh Iceland (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) That sounds fab! Hmmph - the only school trip I went on this year was a biology field trip to a national park, where we stood thigh-deep in a river to collect...well...stuff (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) and we had to stay in tents (hate camping (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) ) Ahh! Avoid field trips at all costs! They honestly can't be as bad as our geography trips... In year 7, we went to Bluewater and our local town. We recorded each type of shop, and then had to think of a questionaire to ask the shoppers at each place. The thing is though, there were about 200 of us there, on the same day, at the same time, swarming around the shoppers asking them pointless, instrusive questions "why do you shop here? how did you get here?" and each shopper had probably been approached at least 5 times, so just glared at us. Then in year 8, we went to a country park, and walked over fields filled with sheep ######, for miles and miles, before eventually coming to rest on a rainy day on a beach for an hour to eat lunch, then walking back. But the year 9 trip was an art trip, so we went to the National Portrait Gallery, which was AMAZZINGG! That has given me a flashback to doing my geography coursework in the (very) late 80s. A comparison of the central business districts of a 1st and 2nd order settlement (Worcester and Kidderminster). Everyone had to do the Worcester part, little miss obsessive decided to expand it. I was going to do my 2nd project on the water flow of the stream in the village I lived in but was persuaded that I'd already done enough (you could submit 1 long or 2 short pieces of coursework). My main conclusion was that the CBD in both towns was centred on Marks & Sparks - I never managed to get enough data to establish whether they sited their shops in the centre or the centre shifted towards their shops. My geography teacher did try to convince me to do A level saying that I could save myself a lot of work by submitting the same project. I think he got this wrong - the coursework was the thing that appealed to me most about geography.

barry-clari	Aug 4 2009, 07:53 AM Post #3896
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 40564 Joined: 10-January 06 From: South East London Member No.: 5804	If hello_cello wishes to win me in the forum raffle, his ticket must have a '0' or a '5' on the end... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

barry-clari	Aug 4 2009, 08:06 AM Post #3897
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 40564 Joined: 10-January 06 From: South East London Member No.: 5804	QUOTE(noodle @ Aug 4 2009, 08:58 AM) QUOTE(barry-clari @ Aug 4 2009, 08:53 AM) If hello_cello wishes to win me in the forum raffle, his ticket must have a '0' or a '5' on the end... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Do you want Hello Cello to win you in the forum raffle, Barry? What are the chances of him getting a '0' or a '5' anyway noodle?... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

barry-clari	Aug 5 2009, 08:05 PM Post #3898
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 40564 Joined: 10-January 06 From: South East London Member No.: 5804	andante_in_c's signature : (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rofl.gif)

Soph15	Aug 5 2009, 08:19 PM Post #3899
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 6074 Joined: 8-October 06 From: somewhere only I know!! Member No.: 7906	My Uncle made me feel wanted earlier... he rang and i told him only i was in... he said 'thats ok, i dont mind talking to you' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

barry-clari	Aug 6 2009, 08:18 AM Post #3900
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 40564 Joined: 10-January 06 From: South East London Member No.: 5804	The forum is being a bit slow this morning... Never mind, I can print off a pile of clarinet trios while waiting for this reply to make it online! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

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