Sunday, February 25, 2007

Dorset Coast Digital Archive

Here is an excellent resource on the Dorset coast which I have recently discovered. Having just marked your RLR prelim question (more of which tomorrow!), I am still amazed that so few of you have taken on board my advice about being highly specific about case studies. Remember .... name drop and give specific examples otherwise, as I discovered as I marked your scripts and you will find when you get them back, you could be talking about almost any coastal area in the country! You have to convince the marker that you really 'know' your case study area. You have to refer to issues which mark it out as different from other areas. Ah well.... there are still two months for me to convince you!!

In the meantime, you could do worse than browse through the resources on the Dorset Coast Digital Archive. There is a huge amount of material which you could use to supplement the notes you already have. For a start, try theme 1 topic 3, theme 2 topic 4 and theme 3 topic 3. There is also a 'Schools Learning Materials' section.

On another subject, the second Dales fieldtrip is next weekend. Those of you who are going on this one should have received a parental consent form by post. Please remember to return it to me as soon as possible.