https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020 en-us 2019-01-31 21:00:48 UTC 2025-12-10 04:05:44 UTC hello@padlet.com bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326484197 2019-01-31 21:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326484197 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326484230 1. Click on the pink button in the bottom right hand corner
2. A text box (like this) will open - you can drag it, resize it etc. 
3. Add your comment - these are visible to the class and me. Like adding a note to a giant pinboard. 
4. Have fun!  (you can leave videos/audio/text)]]> 2019-01-31 21:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326484230 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326499098 In another course that I teach we did a lot of work on the Galgael trust. I really recommend watching the video - Birdman of Pollock - it gives the history and background into the development of Galgael.
The photos here are from our visit to the trust.  Following our visit we began to think through ways in which we could work with others (young people, students, others) in that space and really think about it as a site for place-based education that took account of those people living in that place and how we could work with them focusing on social justice, sustainability and transformation of place.

I thought a 6th year placement or a university/ college placement was a great way to bring pupils into the project to learn work skills but also to get involved with some of the issues that the project is working with - community, traditional craft, social enterprise, mental health issues but also to learn how to work as a charitable organisation, secure funding etc. 

I'm not sure how it would work with primary age pupils.  But maybe there are ways to get people form Galgael out to schools to develop gardens or build wooden structures for playgrounds or something else a bit more creative but located within schools or a community site rather than the Galgael workshop.

This could be a good intergenerational project that could be tweaked to bring in a range of curricular links. 

]]> 2019-01-31 21:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326499098 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326503394 2019-01-31 22:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326503394 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326504788 2019-01-31 22:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326504788 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326505255 2019-01-31 22:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326505255 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326505579 2019-01-31 22:10:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326505579 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326609574 This is a recent book which talks through ways to develop partnerships or participatory practices for sustainable communities. It is in the library so you should be able to access it. what I really like about it is the way it gives practical steps and advice on how to develop and maintain partnerships and research underpinning the value of placemaking with young people.

Louise Chawla one of authors has done a lot of research into place, connection with nature and childhood experience - worth searching her work. ]]> 2019-02-01 09:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/326609574 https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/330542218  Great article on place-based education - draws on Grunewald / Greenwood, D. A. (2014). A critical theory of place-conscious education. In AERA Handbook on Environmental Education Research. New York: Lawrence-Erlbaum.

]]> 2019-02-12 20:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/330542218 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/330586900 2019-02-12 21:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/330586900 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/330587440 2019-02-12 21:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/330587440 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445747176 The McDonaldization of Society: Into the Digital Age 9th Edition EBook by George Ritzer

Here is a link to the first chapter of the book:

https://www.corwin.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/3239_4007_ch01.pdf

nd another link to a chapter by Ritzer: 
http://fasnafan.tripod.com/mcdonaldization.pdf]]> 2020-02-14 18:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445747176 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445753599 2020-02-14 19:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445753599 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445754560 2020-02-14 19:05:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445754560 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445757090 2020-02-14 19:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445757090 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445757739 2020-02-14 19:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445757739 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445760444 This is a good friend of mine (Helena Oladottir) who was working with the Circular economy concepts in an outdoor setting (just outside the university campus) with young people. She was taking the principles of the Circular Economy model (linked to just to the side of here) and by using an object found in the grounds she was working with chalk to work through the process. It was a physical way of engaging with the process and it was place-based in that she was working with objects found in their university grounds. It is in Icelandic but watching what is happening will let you see the different ways to work with this.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKZj4SvMoYo

]]> 2020-02-14 19:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445760444 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445764129 The Ellen McCarthur Foundation ]]> 2020-02-14 19:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445764129 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445765079 2020-02-14 19:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445765079 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445766257 2020-02-14 19:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445766257 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445766907 2020-02-14 19:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445766907 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445768606 2020-02-14 19:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445768606 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445770299 Loads of Lesson ideas from Juliet Robertson - worth a look now and when you are teaching : ) 

]]> 2020-02-14 19:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445770299 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445777426 Dollar Street. This website is great as a resource to stimulate conversation about different cultures, geographies and communities through everyday objects and contexts. Really worth a browse. It is a bank of images of everyday items, beds, houses, toys, hairbrushes etc. and each one holds a story. I have used the toothbrush set of images as a way in to so many issues related to sustainability. ]]> 2020-02-14 19:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445777426 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445806414 2020-02-14 21:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445806414 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445806752 2020-02-14 21:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445806752 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445807011 2020-02-14 21:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/445807011 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/841027835 This website is a great example of the ways in which people are actively engaging in the shape and development of their places and spaces. These talks are currently happening and show what is possible following the change in use in response to Covid. It will be interesting to see how this and similar projects evolve - will change happen?  

]]> 2020-10-19 13:48:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/841027835 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/849674204 Learning our Way to a Sustainable Future]]> 2020-10-21 17:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/849674204 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/849682266 Really fascinating article that captures a lot of what this week is premised upon. Worth a read and a follow up on the papers they reference as some great work captured in this one paper. ]]> 2020-10-21 17:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/849682266 https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/876591412 I actually discovered this project through the beautiful accompanying album. 'The Lost Words Blessing' that opens it particularly spoke to me and soundtracked my summer:

https://open.spotify.com/track/1c5Pmoh8KWedGYlu4wipPN?si=J8afRCahTUSyJ93sH-TcyQ]]> 2020-10-30 14:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/876591412 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/876998051 Delighted that you know this work already - yes, it may need to be adapted for different ages. I love the spirit and ethos of it and was just about to say there is. a soundtrack but you are already onto that! 

https://www.thelostwords.org/spell-songs/]]> 2020-10-30 16:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/876998051 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/877015583 You might enjoy this book - it is a children's story that draws in a number of issues in a metaphorical way - climate change, sacrifice, relationships, morality etc. He wraps these issues and challenges up in a really simple story, which means that you could work with this story as a way into any one of this complex topics. ]]> 2020-10-30 16:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/877015583 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/877038683 2020-10-30 16:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/877038683 bethchristie https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/877349475 Meinig - Beholding Eye]]> 2020-10-30 17:47:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/877349475 https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/879444847 The book has so much potential for interdisciplinary outdoor education activities and for the learning to be sustained back in the classroom and at home.]]> 2020-11-01 07:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/879444847 https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/879477436 Having been born in Quebec and never really been taught about the Premier Nations at school (30 years ago), I searched about current student exchange opportunities in Canada -if any- and was glad to find a few.... We have a lot to learn from the Premier Nations of our country and it's about time we start. ]]> 2020-11-01 07:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/879477436 https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/879934923 ... Here is a project my friends and colleagues (and last year's post-graduates in Outdoor Education and Sustainability form Moray House) have initiated and to which I had the pleasure to participate as part of our work in South-Ayrshire Council's Health and Wellbeing department. ]]> 2020-11-01 13:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/879934923 https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/881166678 At the Dolphin House Outdoor Learning Centre, we worked in partnership with our friend teacher and RAISE officer Jenn McEwan to map our IDL with the various E's and O's of the CfE, as well as the LfS and Children's Rights principles that underpin our programmes. ]]> 2020-11-02 05:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/bethchristie/outdoor2020/wish/881166678