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9 February 2026
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‘If you have not had an opportunity to view them all, it is a worm hole well worth exploring.‘
Jon Cannell
One of the GA’s greatest strengths is its amazing sense of community. Opportunities to share, model and debate a range of thoughts, approaches and perspectives are rarely missed, in fact they are actively sought out and embraced. Whether attending a thought provoking lecture at GA Conference or through a meeting of divergent minds over a cuppa outside the very same lecture theatre, geography connects people and place.
‘Blog: a regular record of your thoughts, opinions, or experiences that you put on the internet for other people to read.’
Since Alan Parkinson’s first blog post for the GA on 6 October 2022 the informal nature of blogging has opened up a whole new world of opportunity, empowering a number of long term members to take the plunge and share their anecdotes and ideas in writing for the first time.
We love the collective and therefore eclectic nature of the GA blog and genuinely welcome the ever increasing number of posts that are coming through each week. However, it is not just the quantity of posts that needs celebrating but how well such a diverse range of content has landed. To be honest, the GA blog is brilliant!
The blog posts, whether providing classroom tips, knowledge boosts or sharing personal experiences, have all stimulated interest and excitement, as evidenced by not only the subsequent flurry of emails after each posting, but the self-sustaining nature of the blog supply chain.
The image below takes one word from each of the 100 blog titles, telling a story in and of itself about the multiple voices that have contributed to the first 100 posts.
If you have not had an opportunity to view them all, it is a worm hole well worth exploring. You never know, you might be inspired to jot down your thoughts, if only to help provide clarity around an idea, issue, question or topic in the first instance. But then… WHAM! Without setting out to do so, you have created an insightful and inspiring blog post and can add your voice to the GA collective!
Will yours be the 101st or even 1001st blog post? Give it a go and ‘Write for the GA Blog’.
Written by Jon Cannell, GA Primary Curriculum Lead
© Jon Cannell, and the Geographical Association, 2026
