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Amazing what one of the young teachers has started after Shady Hook. 

Grade 2 students introduce themselves via video. Such a wonderful glimpse into the class of Leigh Ray in Alaska!

The Flat Classroom Project for 8-10 year old students (Grades 3-5). Wonderful handshakes shared via a Symbaloo interface. Excellent!

"I wanted to create a post about our current project we are exploring in 6th grade. I am working with a small group of students for a global debate project, Eracism, conducted by Flat Class. We are debating the following topic: "The use of Facebook by students around the world to communicate with one another does more harm than good.""

Honor Morman, a Flat Classroom Certified Teacher, shares her thoughts about introducing global collaboration into the curriculum. "Here's what two of my students said about our participation in the Flat Classroom Project, a 12-week project in which we collaborated with 15 other classes in seven different countries to create a vision for the future of education and society based on emerging technologies and the characteristics of the net generation: "[I learned] how important it is to be a member of a global society-communicating globally and working together as a global community is the only way we can solve global issues and improve the lives of all of us. Communicating and collaborating via the web with global partners is how we will do it in future." -Lara "[Participating in this project helped me become] a global leader, able to communicate important global ideas and different perspectives across cultures and borders and share those ideas for the betterment of my community and the world." -Katherine"

Yong Zhao's new book in 2012 - "The book is about preparing global, creative, and entrepreneurial talents. It is my attempt to answer a number of pressing questions facing education today. These questions are exemplified by two new stories that have dominated the media recently, one around the Facebook IPO and the other the debt and jobs of college graduate"

Thank you to Duane from Manitou, Canada for sharing his class wiki and how the Personal Video piece is explained to his students. This is excellent teachersourcing!

Great Class shared by Cathy Wolinsky.

Louis Morgan shares her discovery of global projects for her Gr2 class.

Video created by Flat Classroom teacher Avylon Magarey as part of the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher course http://www.flatclassroomproject.net/certified-teacher-program.html

Theresa Allen @tdallen5 - workshop leader and presenter at Flat Classroom Live! Hawaii recently blogs about the event.

The Manitou Springs High School featured Flat Classroom in an online article.  :)