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		<title>Handmade postcard swap and exhibition &#8211; Let me introduce myself&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://schoolswaps.net/2012/03/12/iyaf-2012-postcard-swap-exhibition/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iyaf-2012-postcard-swap-exhibition</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second year running, Schoolswaps is working with the organisers of the International Youth Arts Festival in Kingston-upon-Thames, UK to bring you the biggest international postcard swap and exhibition of the year! We want to invite you and your children to take part in the 2nd IYAF/Schoolswaps Exhibition in Kingston, which will be running as part of the Kingston International Youth Arts Festival 2012. Last years swap was great fun, and we received over 800 postcards, which went on display in the Penny School Gallery in Kingston, with sponsorship from John Lewis of Kingston-upon-Thames. This year we think we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schoolswaps Postcard Map Swap a huge success!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 teachers have been uploading pictures of the post that they sent and received and writing up what they did in class with the idea. In Hull students used an OS map of Hull and the surrounding area. They used a section of the map on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using postcards to teach &#8211; Teachmeet London presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I attended Teachmeet London and gave a brief presentation on the use of postcards in teaching. I referred to Schoolswaps too, so here&#8217;s a link to the presentation]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard or digital art competition open to all &#8211; £30 Amazon vouchers up for grabs!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all &#8211; thought this would be a welcome distraction and a chance to make some art and perhaps get involved in a creative conference in London. I&#8217;m involved in running a conference in London for creatives involved in wellbeing, which includes you! This competition is open to all. In conjunction with the conference, we are running a little fun competition, with £30 in Amazon vouchers up for grabs. All you need to do is send in your images of what a good day looks like to us, Escape Artists, at the address on this site. You could also submit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some ideas for teaching geography using postcard maps by Professor Simon Catling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guest post for Schoolswaps was written by Professor Simon Catling, who is a Professor of Education and tutor in primary Geography education at the School of Education at Oxford Brookes University.  His specialist interest is in children&#8217;s geographical learning and he has written much on the subject of geography and map learning for teachers and children and is an avid collector of postcard maps! The following teaching activities can be used with or adapted to a wide variety of postcard maps.  They are suggested to encourage children to look out for postcard maps and to collect them, to see what they show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Big Schoolswap #2 &#8211; Map swap!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a teacher and think your students could benefit from sending and receiving some postcards this term, the Great Big School Swap #2 is for you! The idea is simple. Get your class to send one postcard each and, hopefully they should all get one back! How does it work? You need to have a class of your own and a school address to take part. Fill in the form below with your class details by November 4th, 2011. After I have all the class details in, I’ll look for similar classes and assign partners. It&#8217;s a pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons learned from The Great Big School Swap</title>
		<link>http://schoolswaps.net/2011/08/22/lessons-learned-from-the-great-big-school-swap/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lessons-learned-from-the-great-big-school-swap</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that most of the Northern Hemisphere schools are on summer break, I&#8217;ve taken the summer off too here at Schoolswaps. In the meantime, I&#8217;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&#8217;d write a quick summary of lessons learnt from that last swap to give you an idea of what went on behind the scenes. Timing is everything! My first mistake was announcing the swap with a deadline date in June. I hadn&#8217;t realised that schools in the USA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postcards arriving at their destinations!</title>
		<link>http://schoolswaps.net/2011/07/07/postcards-arriving-at-their-destinations/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=postcards-arriving-at-their-destinations</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With The Great Big School Swap in full swing, hundreds of postcards are currently making their way across the world to and from the 66 classes signed up and it&#8217;s been really exciting to hear about all the cards coming in by email, on twitter and right here on schoolswaps in the schoolswaps network my first @schoolswaps postcards arrived today &#8211; from Korea! Furthest to come and first to arrive less than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyMarion Fmaz_blaze90 The first display to go up of postcards received was in Coventry, in the UK West Midlands! As a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Extraordinary Imagination opens at The Penny School Gallery, Kingston</title>
		<link>http://schoolswaps.net/2011/07/05/my-extraordinary-imagination-opens-at-the-penny-school-gallery-kingston/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=my-extraordinary-imagination-opens-at-the-penny-school-gallery-kingston</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 responsible for putting on the whole festival. He&#8217;s the one below gesturing, and he&#8217;s gesturing at Zoe Thomas, the person responsible for coming up with the idea of the show and getting the team together to make it happen with Andy Hoang of Schoolswaps. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than 600 postcards received for the IYAF show!</title>
		<link>http://schoolswaps.net/2011/07/01/more-than-600-postcards-received-for-the-iyaf-show/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=more-than-600-postcards-received-for-the-iyaf-show</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kingston International Youth Arts Festival got off to a flying start today, with the opening of the Schoolswaps/IYAF collaboration, &#8220;My Extraordinary Imagination&#8221;. The show is a postcard show featuring contributions from children all over the world. You can read a lot more about it on the IYAF schoolswaps subsite, but I thought I&#8217;d put the gallery up here too so that you can all see what extraordinary pieces have been coming through. Enjoy!]]></description>
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