Alistair Hamill
@ahamill.bsky.social
• Geog HoD • SLT (T&L) • Shared Ed • GIS enthusiast • Plate Tectonics Geek • Mainstage presenter Esri UC '19 • GA Excellence in Geog Leadership 24' • Edtech50 UK '21 Award • RGS OS Award '22 • PQH • ResearchED presenter • Author • Landscape Photographer •
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Delighted and grateful that Secondary Geography in Action is now published and on sale with @hachettelearning.bsky.social as part of @teacherhead.bsky.social's "In Action" series.
www.hachettelearning.com/geography/se...
www.hachettelearning.com/geography/se...
October 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Delighted and grateful that Secondary Geography in Action is now published and on sale with @hachettelearning.bsky.social as part of @teacherhead.bsky.social's "In Action" series.
www.hachettelearning.com/geography/se...
www.hachettelearning.com/geography/se...
Anyone have any views on or experiences of the age verification process on here? I guess it's inevitable now, but should I be concerned about the storage of my personal data?
August 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Anyone have any views on or experiences of the age verification process on here? I guess it's inevitable now, but should I be concerned about the storage of my personal data?
GCSE Fieldwork day! It may have been a bit rainy, but the spirits of my Y11s were anything but dampened!
Great to get out exploring geography in the real world!
Great to get out exploring geography in the real world!
June 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
GCSE Fieldwork day! It may have been a bit rainy, but the spirits of my Y11s were anything but dampened!
Great to get out exploring geography in the real world!
Great to get out exploring geography in the real world!
#HowIUsedGISToday
Prep for GCSE fieldwork on Monday meant using the Chromebooks to allow the pupils to explore the area we'll be visiting to familiarise themselves with the geology.
Embedding GIS as the norm involves little moments like this when I choose GIS over paper.
Prep for GCSE fieldwork on Monday meant using the Chromebooks to allow the pupils to explore the area we'll be visiting to familiarise themselves with the geology.
Embedding GIS as the norm involves little moments like this when I choose GIS over paper.
June 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#HowIUsedGISToday
Prep for GCSE fieldwork on Monday meant using the Chromebooks to allow the pupils to explore the area we'll be visiting to familiarise themselves with the geology.
Embedding GIS as the norm involves little moments like this when I choose GIS over paper.
Prep for GCSE fieldwork on Monday meant using the Chromebooks to allow the pupils to explore the area we'll be visiting to familiarise themselves with the geology.
Embedding GIS as the norm involves little moments like this when I choose GIS over paper.
Seagull Island at the Giant's Causeway, with some gorgeous painterly light.
May 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Seagull Island at the Giant's Causeway, with some gorgeous painterly light.
The glorious Lacada Point at the Giant's Causeway. It's quite the scramble to get here, but the views are always worth it!
May 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The glorious Lacada Point at the Giant's Causeway. It's quite the scramble to get here, but the views are always worth it!
This is the aurora you've been looking for.
Star Wars Day aurora around 23.35 on May 4 2025, beating both the twilight and the bright moonlight.
Star Wars Day aurora around 23.35 on May 4 2025, beating both the twilight and the bright moonlight.
May 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is the aurora you've been looking for.
Star Wars Day aurora around 23.35 on May 4 2025, beating both the twilight and the bright moonlight.
Star Wars Day aurora around 23.35 on May 4 2025, beating both the twilight and the bright moonlight.
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🌳 Explore meaningful local climate action through the #Geography curriculum, like mapping trees in Lurgan, championed by @ahamill.bsky.social, in our special #CoffeeGeogPod episode from #GAConf25.
WATCH: youtu.be/PMwo_b3E8nU #ClimateAmbassadors #GeographyTeacher
WATCH: youtu.be/PMwo_b3E8nU #ClimateAmbassadors #GeographyTeacher
Coffee & Geography 5x15 Climate Action at the Geog Association Annual Conference 2025 #GAConf25
A special on-location episode recorded at Oxford Brookes University for the Geographical Association Annual Conference 2025 (https://geography.org.uk/events-cpd/ga-annual-conference-and-exhibition/). Part of our season-long special focusing on #ClimateAmbassadors, Kit Marie explores the multitude of
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April 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🌳 Explore meaningful local climate action through the #Geography curriculum, like mapping trees in Lurgan, championed by @ahamill.bsky.social, in our special #CoffeeGeogPod episode from #GAConf25.
WATCH: youtu.be/PMwo_b3E8nU #ClimateAmbassadors #GeographyTeacher
WATCH: youtu.be/PMwo_b3E8nU #ClimateAmbassadors #GeographyTeacher
Excellent day yesterday on 6th form fieldwork around Belfast. We started collecting river data along the Colin River. It was great to see the pupils enjoying geography in the real world on the warmest day of the year so far!
May 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Excellent day yesterday on 6th form fieldwork around Belfast. We started collecting river data along the Colin River. It was great to see the pupils enjoying geography in the real world on the warmest day of the year so far!
As I continue to write my book, Teacher Hacks: Geography, I'm drafting something on the role of Big Ideas in creating geographical meaning, exploring the metaphor that knowledge had a topography.
Thoughts and feedback welcome!
Thoughts and feedback welcome!
April 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
As I continue to write my book, Teacher Hacks: Geography, I'm drafting something on the role of Big Ideas in creating geographical meaning, exploring the metaphor that knowledge had a topography.
Thoughts and feedback welcome!
Thoughts and feedback welcome!
Check out my video showing how Tectoglob3D can help you take fieldtrips to the mantle.
This is the presentation I made as part of the @gasigict.bsky.social session at the GA Conference this week.
docs.google.com/videos/d/1kL...
This is the presentation I made as part of the @gasigict.bsky.social session at the GA Conference this week.
docs.google.com/videos/d/1kL...
April 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Check out my video showing how Tectoglob3D can help you take fieldtrips to the mantle.
This is the presentation I made as part of the @gasigict.bsky.social session at the GA Conference this week.
docs.google.com/videos/d/1kL...
This is the presentation I made as part of the @gasigict.bsky.social session at the GA Conference this week.
docs.google.com/videos/d/1kL...
I was delighted to be able to share the story of my Climate Change Citizen Science project as part of @geogramblings.com's #GAConf25 session.
It's a powerful story of agency in action, inspiring hope.
Here's the video youtu.be/tTWvYb4tJlA?...
It's a powerful story of agency in action, inspiring hope.
Here's the video youtu.be/tTWvYb4tJlA?...
April 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I was delighted to be able to share the story of my Climate Change Citizen Science project as part of @geogramblings.com's #GAConf25 session.
It's a powerful story of agency in action, inspiring hope.
Here's the video youtu.be/tTWvYb4tJlA?...
It's a powerful story of agency in action, inspiring hope.
Here's the video youtu.be/tTWvYb4tJlA?...
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A whole new volcanic hazard map for the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland has been published by the Icelandic Met Office (Veðurstofa Íslands). Find out more about the redesign at en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...
April 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A whole new volcanic hazard map for the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland has been published by the Icelandic Met Office (Veðurstofa Íslands). Find out more about the redesign at en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...
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And...geology matters to public health. Support science. It helps us all🧪
Volcanic ash is a silent killer, more so than lava: What Alaska needs to know with Mount Spurr likely to erupt theconversation.com/volcanic-ash...
Volcanic ash is a silent killer, more so than lava: What Alaska needs to know with Mount Spurr likely to erupt theconversation.com/volcanic-ash...
Volcanic ash is a silent killer, more so than lava: What Alaska needs to know with Mount Spurr likely to erupt
When volcanoes like Alaska’s Mount Spurr erupt, the ash can damage people’s lungs, smother crops and kill animals, and the harm can continue to spread long afterward.
theconversation.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
And...geology matters to public health. Support science. It helps us all🧪
Volcanic ash is a silent killer, more so than lava: What Alaska needs to know with Mount Spurr likely to erupt theconversation.com/volcanic-ash...
Volcanic ash is a silent killer, more so than lava: What Alaska needs to know with Mount Spurr likely to erupt theconversation.com/volcanic-ash...
Thrilled to have been awarded the GA Teaching Geography Journal Award for the second year running!
This is for my second article on plate tectonics, Taking Fieldtrips to the Mantle.
This award is voted for by my geography colleagues, so I'm happy the articles are proving helpful.
This is for my second article on plate tectonics, Taking Fieldtrips to the Mantle.
This award is voted for by my geography colleagues, so I'm happy the articles are proving helpful.
April 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thrilled to have been awarded the GA Teaching Geography Journal Award for the second year running!
This is for my second article on plate tectonics, Taking Fieldtrips to the Mantle.
This award is voted for by my geography colleagues, so I'm happy the articles are proving helpful.
This is for my second article on plate tectonics, Taking Fieldtrips to the Mantle.
This award is voted for by my geography colleagues, so I'm happy the articles are proving helpful.
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'GIS: the key to understanding our interconnected world – seven ideas'
(at least seven!)
15.30-16.20 Wed 16 April
Chakrabarti room
#GAConf25 @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
#GIS #geospatial
sched.co/1snE4
(at least seven!)
15.30-16.20 Wed 16 April
Chakrabarti room
#GAConf25 @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
#GIS #geospatial
sched.co/1snE4
April 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
'GIS: the key to understanding our interconnected world – seven ideas'
(at least seven!)
15.30-16.20 Wed 16 April
Chakrabarti room
#GAConf25 @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
#GIS #geospatial
sched.co/1snE4
(at least seven!)
15.30-16.20 Wed 16 April
Chakrabarti room
#GAConf25 @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
#GIS #geospatial
sched.co/1snE4
Not long now to @doctorpreece.bsky.social & my presentation at the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social Conference where we'll discuss how to support ECTs & non-specialist teachers of geography in developing geographical meaning through the content they are teaching.
April 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Not long now to @doctorpreece.bsky.social & my presentation at the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social Conference where we'll discuss how to support ECTs & non-specialist teachers of geography in developing geographical meaning through the content they are teaching.
Moonlit aurora at the Giant's Causeway last weekend. I love the detail in the stones picked out by the moonlight.
April 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Moonlit aurora at the Giant's Causeway last weekend. I love the detail in the stones picked out by the moonlight.
A delightful moonlit aurora display from last weekend, at the glorious Wishing Arch near Portrush.
April 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A delightful moonlit aurora display from last weekend, at the glorious Wishing Arch near Portrush.
I loved meeting up with the folks from the Google Educators Group NI last week to hatch future plans for GEG NI. They are such an inspiring group of educators to chat with. I always leave fired up and enthused.
April 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I loved meeting up with the folks from the Google Educators Group NI last week to hatch future plans for GEG NI. They are such an inspiring group of educators to chat with. I always leave fired up and enthused.
I enjoyed recording a bespoke CPD video for the Two Counties Trust, East Midlands of a knowledge update on Tectonics. I tailored the content to their specific training needs.
If any other school/MAT in England would like to explore such training from me, please get in touch.
If any other school/MAT in England would like to explore such training from me, please get in touch.
April 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I enjoyed recording a bespoke CPD video for the Two Counties Trust, East Midlands of a knowledge update on Tectonics. I tailored the content to their specific training needs.
If any other school/MAT in England would like to explore such training from me, please get in touch.
If any other school/MAT in England would like to explore such training from me, please get in touch.
Excellent day at the launch of the Ulster University report into the c2k Microsoft Copilot Proof of Concept presented by Sammy Taggart. 86 teachers & school leaders from every school sector in NI spent last term trialling out Copilot GenAI in our schools, logging 629 use cases to inform this report.
April 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Excellent day at the launch of the Ulster University report into the c2k Microsoft Copilot Proof of Concept presented by Sammy Taggart. 86 teachers & school leaders from every school sector in NI spent last term trialling out Copilot GenAI in our schools, logging 629 use cases to inform this report.
Powerful outcomes from my 6th Form AI Pupil Pilot, exploring together how AI can be used to help them revise more effectively.
More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
April 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Powerful outcomes from my 6th Form AI Pupil Pilot, exploring together how AI can be used to help them revise more effectively.
More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...
It was excellent to be in Dublin last Thursday for the Esri Ireland Customer Success Awards. Ive loved partnering with the Esri Ireland guys in our various Shared Ed GIS adventures. And it was great to hatch plans for some future adventures!
April 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
It was excellent to be in Dublin last Thursday for the Esri Ireland Customer Success Awards. Ive loved partnering with the Esri Ireland guys in our various Shared Ed GIS adventures. And it was great to hatch plans for some future adventures!
Looking forward to presenting with David Preece at the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social Conference next week about our books for geography teachers on how we can support ECTs & non-specialists in teaching geographical meaning not just content.
More details here: gaconf25.sched.com/event/1snGX/...
More details here: gaconf25.sched.com/event/1snGX/...
April 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Looking forward to presenting with David Preece at the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social Conference next week about our books for geography teachers on how we can support ECTs & non-specialists in teaching geographical meaning not just content.
More details here: gaconf25.sched.com/event/1snGX/...
More details here: gaconf25.sched.com/event/1snGX/...