Revision Day clarification

Jonathan Blundell writes that the Philip Allan revision conference that is threatened is run by Fionnuala Swann for the OCR. The AQA revision conferences which Jonathan does with Pauline Kendall and Andy Leach are definitely going ahead (23rd March in Manchester, 23rd April in London). For more information, contact Philip Allan directly via their website.

Revision AS Day

Glamorgan University are running an AS Sociology revision day on 13th April. For further information, contact the University directly and make sure you have places booked. Last year, centres were disappointed.

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Reminder that International Women’s Day means that this week is a good one to look out for lots of articles on feminism and the history of women. There are TV documentaries to check out and tape.

You can create your own online revision Blockbuster style quiz for playing in class very easily indeed if you go to http://www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/quiz-busters/. You only need to add twenty single words and some relevant questions.

We understand that Pat Mahoney of Coleg Gwent has retired. This is a very sad loss to teaching, but wish Pat a long, healthy and very happy retirement.

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Revision Day news

Fionnula Swann has written with a bit of information for anyone thinking of booking students onto the Philip Allan student AS revision conference.  Philip Allan are thinking of cancelling this event as not enough students are booked onto it.  It is a shame as previous feedback has always rated it as an exceptionally useful revision day.  It is being led by senior examiners and it is focusing on revising key themes in preparation for the June AS exams.  If you were thinking of booking places, then do so, before it gets cancelled.  The revision conference is in London on 27th April and can be booked via the philip Allan website.

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Thanks to the sweet little poppet in year 10 who told me in all seriousness that she wanted to do soliciting in University. I think she meant she wanted to study law, but maybe with student loans being so expensive, she may have hit on something

You may want to look at www.seesaw.com which is a Channel Four website where you can watch reruns of programmes including documentaries. There is an excellent short documentary about Wild children, the offspring of hippy communes in the 1970s and the impact of the life style on the children. It would be useful as a starting point for discussions on the family see http://www.seesaw.com/TV/Factual/s-12850-Wild-Things

Bill McDonnell writes that there is website accompanying the bestselling book Connected.

http://www.connectedthebook.com/ . It helps if you've read the book but there is a really useful collection of slides to be downloaded from this site. This book has been the most interesting and broad in perspective since reading Putnam’s 'Bowling Alone'. They also challenge Putnam on the net and social networks/social capital. It will be interesting in its own right, but support courses in community and culture. In addition, this lecture might help as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnS5yIXcFuA

For all those people teaching youth culture, there is a good article on the Guardian website about the current state of youth culture.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/25/emo-pop-tribes-mods-punks

Get in touch with your views and news! It’s your organisation and will only be as good as you can make it.