Watch the Flight Attendants suddenly burst into a dance!!! Great way to catch attention of bored travellers. This video has been watched 9 million times on youtube, and yes there is even an all male version as well! Which can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnOfFma6p88 As a matter of interest I have taken part in an earthquake dance in Japan...If I get enough interests I might upload it!
Showing posts with label edu4drr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label edu4drr. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Zombie Preparedness! An effort to get people thinking about emergencies differently!
In an effort to highlight emergency preparedness in general, the US Centre for Disease Control has set up a page offering advice about what to do in case of a zombie attack, which is of course being tweeted about and written about in blogs such as this one as well as zooming around the Twitterverse! I think it is a great idea as it gets people talking and reading and is really about preparing emergency kits for the home! Kudos to the CDC for attempting a novel way of engaging those who may not think about emergency preparedness normally!
Monday, May 16, 2011
Educational Resource of the Week!
Here is a great resource I found on Save the Children Website. It is also available in Thai, where it was carried out as an education project and would certainly be a lot of fun to carry out with very young children who make puppet shows as well as maps and go-bags and seems to be a great way of involving the whole community in being better prepared!It revolves around an alert rabbit who mistakenly takes a tsunami test warning to be the real thing and panics others in his community. After the village head hears o this it is decided to hold a meeting and preparedness is discussed and practiced!
Alert Rabbit information and story: Alert_Rabbit_part1.pdf
>> Resources for the classroom: Alert_Rabbit_part2.pdf
>> Info, story and resources in Thai (on external website) Thai Resources
Friday, September 19, 2008
Edu4hazards.org now available in Chinese
Following the success of translating the entire site into Spanish and in an effort to cover the major written languages of the world, www.edu4hazards.org is now also available in Chinese (simplified). While you may also notice that this site has had a redesign, so has http://edu4drr.ning.com which I have done in an effort to get members to do the same! I want member sto use the site more and I thought that if I 'pimped' the site, they might do the same thing!
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Edu4hazards.org available in Norwegian - More translation needed.
Over a year ago I designed and built a website aimed at enabling
children and youth to know what appropriate measures to take before
during and after a hazard event. The initial idea came about because
the students I teach often travel abroad on holiday or visiting
family in areas where there are high risks of earthquakes, tornadoes
and hurricanes. Consequently the design of the site reflects this and
the front page of the site is a suitcase with eight labels that say
'earthquake', 'hurricane' etc. Once clicked on the main information
about how to react to the hazard appears. It i purposely not too
wordy and the advice is simple and widely accepted. The site has been
very successful and without marketing generates 50,000 hits monthly
and growing. I have used the site to deliver DRR messages in schools
in London very successfully; using the site as a stimulus and then
carrying out some of the advice with children such as 'duck, cover
and hold' for earthquakes, practising the 'lightning crouch' and
deciding what other action may be taken in the event of a thunder and
lightning storm. Students have made their own films in a wide variety
of languages - Mandarin Chinese, Turkish, Russian, Urdu, Punjabi,
French, German and English in order to show what action to take for a
wide variety of these hazards. These are available through youtube
teacher tube and as video podcasts through the itunes store (type in
'edu4hazards').
The site and the multimedia techniques that I have been pioneering
have been accepted well in the international community of those
involved in DRR and was included as an example of good practice in
the UNISDR publication earlier this year. This is all well and good
and I am glad to receive recognition, but this was never the reason
for me carrying out this project. I wanted to make a difference and
highlight what I thought was lacking in education for DRR in
mainstream education - experiential learning techniques that make a
real impact on children and youth, allowing them to be prepared and
not scared. I have come to the attention of the UK Government, the
Council of Europe and many emergency managers in many local
authorities, where I have given presentations about this project.
However when I have asked for help for site translation their has
been an initial buzz followed by a hiatus, followed by a negative
response at a later date. But following my presentation at the
Council of Europe Meeting on Disaster Reduction at school, a
Norwegian colleague, offered to translate the site into Norwegian.
The main information on each one of the hazard pages has now been
translated, although the further information parts have not been. The
site will automatically come up in Norwegian if you are in Norway,
whereas the rest of the world currently gets the English site, but it
does not have to be like that! I am attaching a word document with
this principal information on and would appreciate any help that
colleagues could give in translation. I would add a link on the site
as I have done from the Norwegian version of the site to that
person's organisation! The Norwegian site can be viewed at: http://
www.edu4hazards.org/index_no.html
There has been a lot of discussion on this forum about education and
how to motivate children and youth to become agents for change for
DRR and I have seen this site coupled with the activities alongside
it do just that. Children show me there Emergency go-bags for
instance and I have even had parents talk to me about what to include
in them (there are photograph's on the site). There is now a
teacher's page on the site where teachers can explore how to use the
site with lesson plans and resources as well as a link to the new
social network for teachers wanting to make a difference in disaster
prevention at: http://edu4drr.ning.com
Please contact me if YOU can help make a difference, as doing this by
myself is not easy!
children and youth to know what appropriate measures to take before
during and after a hazard event. The initial idea came about because
the students I teach often travel abroad on holiday or visiting
family in areas where there are high risks of earthquakes, tornadoes
and hurricanes. Consequently the design of the site reflects this and
the front page of the site is a suitcase with eight labels that say
'earthquake', 'hurricane' etc. Once clicked on the main information
about how to react to the hazard appears. It i purposely not too
wordy and the advice is simple and widely accepted. The site has been
very successful and without marketing generates 50,000 hits monthly
and growing. I have used the site to deliver DRR messages in schools
in London very successfully; using the site as a stimulus and then
carrying out some of the advice with children such as 'duck, cover
and hold' for earthquakes, practising the 'lightning crouch' and
deciding what other action may be taken in the event of a thunder and
lightning storm. Students have made their own films in a wide variety
of languages - Mandarin Chinese, Turkish, Russian, Urdu, Punjabi,
French, German and English in order to show what action to take for a
wide variety of these hazards. These are available through youtube
teacher tube and as video podcasts through the itunes store (type in
'edu4hazards').
The site and the multimedia techniques that I have been pioneering
have been accepted well in the international community of those
involved in DRR and was included as an example of good practice in
the UNISDR publication earlier this year. This is all well and good
and I am glad to receive recognition, but this was never the reason
for me carrying out this project. I wanted to make a difference and
highlight what I thought was lacking in education for DRR in
mainstream education - experiential learning techniques that make a
real impact on children and youth, allowing them to be prepared and
not scared. I have come to the attention of the UK Government, the
Council of Europe and many emergency managers in many local
authorities, where I have given presentations about this project.
However when I have asked for help for site translation their has
been an initial buzz followed by a hiatus, followed by a negative
response at a later date. But following my presentation at the
Council of Europe Meeting on Disaster Reduction at school, a
Norwegian colleague, offered to translate the site into Norwegian.
The main information on each one of the hazard pages has now been
translated, although the further information parts have not been. The
site will automatically come up in Norwegian if you are in Norway,
whereas the rest of the world currently gets the English site, but it
does not have to be like that! I am attaching a word document with
this principal information on and would appreciate any help that
colleagues could give in translation. I would add a link on the site
as I have done from the Norwegian version of the site to that
person's organisation! The Norwegian site can be viewed at: http://
www.edu4hazards.org/index_no.html
There has been a lot of discussion on this forum about education and
how to motivate children and youth to become agents for change for
DRR and I have seen this site coupled with the activities alongside
it do just that. Children show me there Emergency go-bags for
instance and I have even had parents talk to me about what to include
in them (there are photograph's on the site). There is now a
teacher's page on the site where teachers can explore how to use the
site with lesson plans and resources as well as a link to the new
social network for teachers wanting to make a difference in disaster
prevention at: http://edu4drr.ning.com
Please contact me if YOU can help make a difference, as doing this by
myself is not easy!
Saturday, May 24, 2008
New social network by and for teachers who want to make a difference in disaster prevention.
I have created a social network by and for teachers who want to make a difference in disaster prevention. There are many teacher carrying out disaster prevention worldwide, using a variety of different techniques and pedagogical approaches. This new site is to highlight examples of good practices and while allowing teachers to upload resources or plans and attach them to their discussions. When we have a reasonable number of teacher signed up, we will host a series of live chats where practitioners and teachers can share experiences and ideas. Vist the site and sign up for an account. It is free and easy to get going! http://edu4drr.ning.com
Sunday, April 06, 2008
New UK based Education and DRR Social Tagging Site
In order to collate what projects are, have been or will be going on in the UK in terms of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) so that the curriculum materials that I am developing will use current best pracice as well as new ideas and methods, I have created a social tagging site called edu4drr, which can be found at: http://www.geo-world.org/edu4drr/ - I will eventually move it onto its own site but for beta testing, this is fine.
I am very excited about this mainly because I have never used PHP before, but have even managed to adapt and use the open source scuttle social tagging code as well as the del:icio:us API to do some other cool things. The idea is not mine though, and wsa developed initially about 6-9 months ago by UNISDR for the purpose of gathering good practice worldwide on DRR in general. As you can imagine the site is getting more users and there are 25 pages for DRR education alone. I thought about using their site and just filtering with a UK tag, but have learned a lot more by doing it this way!
I have also added it as an rss feed to this site in the menu on the right »»»
I am very excited about this mainly because I have never used PHP before, but have even managed to adapt and use the open source scuttle social tagging code as well as the del:icio:us API to do some other cool things. The idea is not mine though, and wsa developed initially about 6-9 months ago by UNISDR for the purpose of gathering good practice worldwide on DRR in general. As you can imagine the site is getting more users and there are 25 pages for DRR education alone. I thought about using their site and just filtering with a UK tag, but have learned a lot more by doing it this way!
I have also added it as an rss feed to this site in the menu on the right »»»
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