The final tour

Wednesday, the last day of this great and educational trip. After disembarking and losing some participants, we went to Patrick's school by bus.

At the cruise terminal Laura wanted to get everybody together to see if everybody was present. But somehow our overactive tour guide had some other plans. a group photo. Guess who won?

so here is the group Photo.

At the school we could see how they use SMARTBoards. There was even one at the library. students gave us a schooltour. It wasn't what you would name a normal school. the school was devided in units and the classes consist of about 15 students. It was like a dream come true, only 15 children per classroom.

Part of the tour was attending a class, so we could see how the teachers used the boards in their class. But for us to understand the lessons, they had to be in english and that's not the language an average student is formiliour enough with to answer comlicated questions from the teachers. So every once in a while the language changed to swedish. The class I attended was a lesson about diktators, democracy and anarchy. thanks to youtube and writing over youtube the teacher had an "easy" job in explaining the differences between the three systems. So never block youtube from your school network when working with SMART!

After lucnh, provided by the school cafetaria everybody said goodbye and went home/to the airport. most people went to the airport, so there was a small reunion at Arlanda.

At Arlanda the dutch participants decided that in august we should come together again. but than with some collegues to show what everybody tought their collegues, and at what level they are then.

I think I speak for everybody if I say that we all learnt a lot from this trip. Theachers as well as SMART Tech.

I would love it if the participants could give some quotes in which they summarize the SMARTBoard Sweden User Forum.

Many thanks to the organisation and kind regards to everybody.