The postcard part of the HOTW project is now in the second section phase with schools who participated in the first phase being allocated a new set of schools to send postcards to. Hopefully schools will now receive postcards from three schools this month or next month. In December last year, there was lots of valuable learning taking place where children were creating postcards or selecting shop purchased postcards that represented their home town/ country. Pupils decided what should be written on the postcards alongside what th QR codes should link too. Schools that received postcards have been very excited about what was behind each QR code to learn about their global peers. All this wonderful learning has been shared on the HOTW FB group which has bee wonderful to read, the only problem is the main people, the children are not seeing this. To capture this wonderful learning, this blog will now be the place where teachers and students can share their learning and communicate with their peers. A one stop shop rather too many pieces of technology.
To be able to track the Postcard part of the project, teachers and students should use the label 'postcards', so that all posts related to postcards can then be narrowed down. Other labels that can be used is the school's name, country etc. What is important is using the 'postcard' label.
This is the same for those involved in the Teddy part of the project. Any posts should have the label 'Ted' so that Ted's posts can be found among all the ones that are placed on this blog.
The following video was created by Mirela Dješka in Croatia of her pupils receiving a postcard and engaging with it.
This has been such a wonderful project. It provides me with a great opportunity to teach social studies to my students and connect them with a global community of learners.
Well done.. this is amazing and shows wonderful pupil involvement.
ReplyDeleteIt's a really good idea to keep everything in one place as it can get a bit confusing using different modes of technology
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful video, thanks for sharing!
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ReplyDeleteThis video is a perfect demonstration of how a simple postcard exchange has brought children's curiosity to life 🙂
ReplyDeleteThis project is amazing.I believe all our pupils love it and they really involved in it.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! Looking forward to sharing more videos like the one above as children engage with postcards - and Bear!
ReplyDeleteThank you all! My students are really excited about postcards and seeing what's behind codes. :)
ReplyDeleteYour video is really great and shows just how much learning can take place within a project.
DeleteSo happy to see that a simple idea can turn into a project that really excites our pupils and us!
ReplyDeleteSo happy to see that a simple idea has turned into a project that excites both our pupils and us!
ReplyDeleteThis has been such a wonderful project. It provides me with a great opportunity to teach social studies to my students and connect them with a global community of learners.
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