I have joined this year’s Global Postcard Exchange organised by Melissa Schur where we have 50 schools participating from a variety of countries (https://goo.gl/oDfHXC) The schools in Australia and South Africa begin their school year in January and end in December which means that they will be finishing up with their students ahead of those in the U.S. WE have asked if we can send our postcards digitally instead of by ‘snail mail’, and we started creating them in ICT lessons this week. The Grades 2-3 used Microsoft Publisher, and Grades 4-7s used Google Draw. I have already written about how I conducted the lesson with the Grade 2s and 3s so will concentrate on the classes that used Google Draw in this lesson. I have been wanting my classes to explore using Google Draw so this was the perfect opportunity. Here is the presentation that I used.
The lesson went really well, with the students as excited as I am. We have already had a few folk from other countries write to ask if we can exchange postcards.
What to put on the postcards
An email from Melissa suggested that it would be nice to have some facts about where we live (weather, history, famous people, government, sports, etc...), information about the geography, a link to our school webpage or blog, things the students enjoy doing at school and in their free time, etc... In the past, it seems, participants have opted to put their postcard in an envelope when they mail it to prevent it from getting ripped along the way. This is definitely going to be a fun part of pur student's learning process.
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