How could my students use followthethings.com?

We’re starting a library of followthethings.com teaching resources, lesson plans, guides, coursework, anything that the site’s users are producing to help their students to learn from the site.

A new ‘teaching resources’ page has been added (look right!).

We’ve started it off with a handout that we used this summer to organise university students’ explorations of the site at Exeter University. A shorter version was also used with 6th form students who were on campus for a ‘Discover Geography’ day.

They’re word documents, which you can download and edit for your own students.

If you have a handout that you’d like to share with other site users, please email it to us on followthethings@yahoo.com.

If you have any questions or comments about site (its Twitter feed, its facebook page and/or its shopping back flickr project) and how you and your students could best make use of it, please submit them in a comment to this post or email us at the address above.

Thanks!

School teachers: send us an ftt lesson plan and get 50 ftt shopping bags

A paper mockup of our ftt.com bag

We’re keen for school teachers to use followthethings.com, to produce lesson plans which encourage school students to learn from the site, and to make those lesson plans available to other teachers via this blog.

If you are planning to do this, we can send you a box of 50 followthethings.com reusable shopping bags – made in the same Chinese factory as those of the UK’s major supermarkets – to give to your students, colleagues and friends.

We want our shoppers to take photos of these bags full of shopping, upload them to our Flickr page, locate them on a map, and add some comments about where they went and what they bought. The map will fill up (we’re planning to send them all over the world), the comments will be fascinating to read, and there may be much to discuss.

If you’re interested, please get in touch with us at followthethings@yahoo.com .

We expect them to be delivered to us in 6-8 weeks time.

let us know about your shopping

followthethings.com is a new website.

We would be fascinated to hear about your reactions to it, how you plan to use it, what you think is missing and what we could do next.

Make comments and ask questions about specific pages or the whole site here.

Write your own post, or comment on one that’s already here.

We look forward to hearing what you have to say.