...and we're back in the room....

Image by Alan Parkinson

Back at my desk this evening after a week away and have spent most of the day going through e-mails to get back "up to speed". A nice pottering day tomorrow of uploading photos to my FLICKR account and setting out some reminders for the coming couple of months.
Between now and the end of October I have the following things to look forward to (in addition to the usual stuff that I have to do as well):

• Starting out on a major writing task creating teacher guides for a new KS3 textbook series
• Entering details of hundreds of teachers into database as part of Action Plan for Geography
• Creating new content and refreshing the Young People's Geographies website (and catching up with teachers from Phase 4)
• Meeting with the rest of the Geography Collective following the launch of our Mission:Explore iPhone app to discuss the next few editions of the Mission:Explore book
• Guest blogging at the W3G Conference in Stratford upon Avon
• Writing project bids for a few possible future projects
• Working with teachers in Bristol, Sheffield, Sussex, London, Gloucestershire and Brighton
• Kick-starting the new GA Wimbledon branch programme, and lecturing at Cambridge University 
• Attending the Engaging Geographies session in Manchester, organised by Kye Askins and colleagues
• Leading 2 seminars at the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers' conference at Hutcheson's School, Glasgow
• Kicking off the first of 20 proposed ESRI / GA GIS sessions around the country
• Planning NQT conferences for 2011
• Going to Iceland  !! 

Better get a good night's sleep tonight then...

All of the above will be blogged here of course....


Also, while I was away it was the 11th birthday of the SLN Geography Forum, without which I wouldn't be the geographer I am today... Happy Birthday to the forum and all members old and new...