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 •
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.
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?...
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.
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.
As for my description of this having powerful impacts, when the pupils make reports like this, I'm happy to use that description..
April 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
As for my description of this having powerful impacts, when the pupils make reports like this, I'm happy to use that description..
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.
This is the one I'm working on.
April 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This is the one I'm working on.
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/...
An excellent update on today's eruption at the Reykjanes Peninsula from lavashowiceland.
April 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
An excellent update on today's eruption at the Reykjanes Peninsula from lavashowiceland.
36/ With the footage of the largely non-structural damage to buildings in Bangkok on social media, this video from Myanmar shows what can happen when a building is not seismically resistant. Notice the vertical columns breaking. That's what can lead to the deadly pancaking.
March 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
36/ With the footage of the largely non-structural damage to buildings in Bangkok on social media, this video from Myanmar shows what can happen when a building is not seismically resistant. Notice the vertical columns breaking. That's what can lead to the deadly pancaking.
I always teach it - and enact it! And all associated with the story of Tilly Smith and how she saved hundreds of lives in the Boxing Day tsunami - all by listening to her geography teacher!
March 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I always teach it - and enact it! And all associated with the story of Tilly Smith and how she saved hundreds of lives in the Boxing Day tsunami - all by listening to her geography teacher!
Yes, Tilly Smith. I always tell her story to my classes.
March 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Yes, Tilly Smith. I always tell her story to my classes.