Svalbard e-Portfolio

OK, so we've now had a lesson and a bit to add the framework for our e-portfolio.
We need so far to have a title slide and contents page, which then HYPERLINK to other slides containing the content. Put everything in one folder (and make a backup if you can with a flash drive...)

You should also have downloaded the PDF of the Svalbard brochure from SVALBARD.NET

At the top of the post are some images from Steve Johnston, who visited Svalbard in 2004 and 2006. These could be used as the BACKGROUNDS to your slides, or even made smaller and used as icons for Hyperlinks.

The additional enquiry question that we threw in today was:
"In what ways is Svalbard 'extreme' ?"
We need to start thinking about the landscape.

Homework task from today.
We are going to look at the EXTREMES of the world, and have a starter where you provide me with some records, perhaps from the Guinness Book of Records ?

Spitzbergen Article

Thanks to Danny O' C for pointing out this ARTICLE in The Observer looking at something called 'champagne tourism'.
And some reminders of why people go there. Pictures courtesy of Steve Johnston.


Extract from article:

Ten years ago there were 35,000 visitors a year to Spitsbergen. Last year there were more than 70,000 - with the number of British visitors growing most sharply, up threefold since 1997, from 815 to 2,065 in 2004.

'The average tourist to Spitsbergen is a 55-year-old male, with a high income and good level of education,' said Jan Sverre Sivertsen, managing director of Spitsbergen Travel, which handles 80 per cent of visitors to the area.

'Many of those who come here are very interested in the environment and feel strongly about preserving it. But there are others who, even if they have environmental sensitivities at home, feel that, after making the effort to get all the way here, they have the right to push all the envelopes of experience as far as they can go, regardless of the local consequences.'

Half way through this book at the moment, and it doesn't make for cheery reading when we consider the evidence. A book that everyone should read !