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Learning Postcards

During Links you will be asked to prepare a Learning Postcard. This is a short,
incisive piece of writing accompanied by images which you believe are worth
sharing with other leaders. The activity is based on the principle that an idea
worth thinking about is also worth keeping, and anything that is thought-
provoking is worth sharing with colleagues.

A Postcard contains a message and a picture that when taken together provoke a
thought, a smile, a conversation, a reaction, or even, we hope, change.

Some of the different purposes of a Postcard may be to:
1. Share a problem you are facing at school (written of course to protect
the innocent, and the guilty).
2. Share something you have learned recently, either at school,
during PD, or from life in general.
3. Share an issue about which you want to provoke a reaction or
challenge people to think in a different way.
4. Pose a question you’ve always wanted answered, but can’t quite
get to.
5. Share a technique or something interesting you’ve come across
that will improve your colleagues’ leadership or lives.

6. Share something relatively unimportant but fun.
In short, the purpose is to stimulate both your thinking and others’ learning. It
is also to make your learning more relevant. In other words it comes from YOU
– so it is more applicable to your own life and those you wish to reach than if
someone else were to write it.
A Learning Postcard is like a commercial one, with a picture on one side and a
brief statement on the other. It should be postcard-sized and able to be posted
in either hard copy or online. We’d like you to send it to us in digital format so
we can print it out and then post it, if appropriate, just like a standard postcard
in the mail.

You will write one Links Postcard during the programme, and this will be
distributed to all Links participants. You will be given a schedule of when yours
will be due.

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