Category: News
Lessons learned from The Great Big School Swap
Given that most of the Northern Hemisphere schools are on summer break, I’ve taken the summer off too here at Schoolswaps. In the meantime, I’ve been very busy thinking about the next swap and reflecting on the last Great Big School Swap and getting ready for the new term, so I thought I’d write a […]
My Extraordinary Imagination opens at The Penny School Gallery, Kingston
On Wednesday 29th June, 2011 The Penny School Gallery in Kingston had a special preview of our postcard show, My Extraordinary Imagination as part of the Kingston International Youth Arts Festival. The turnout was good, with invited guests from the local area including Robin Hutchinson, the director of Creative Arts, who are the lovely people […]
Schoolswaps network now upgraded!
Today, following huge demand from schools for partner classes since the Great Big School Swap, I’ve decided to splash a tiny bit of cash and upgrade the schoolswaps network. I’ve had so many teachers asking me to connect their classes with other classes I realised that I’d never be able to do this in a […]
Schoolswaps launches
Schoolswaps is a personal project by me, Andy Hoang I’m a UK-based mailartist and postal fanatic, but also a trained teacher and educational technologist. I have run a website called my REAL wall since 2008, where I display pictures of all the post that comes through my letterbox every day. Since I started that project, […]
Schoolswaps Postcard Map Swap a huge success!
After a few months build up, Schoolswaps second big postcard swap has now finished, with all classes having sent their postcards (with one notable exception in Bangkok as they have been flooded and their school has just reopened and will be sending their postcards out this week) Over at the Schoolswaps network, some of the […]