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An outstanding post from Jodi Amri from Stafford Primary School as she shares her end of project reflection via this teacher blog for the A Week in the Life project, a Flat Classroom Project for Grades 3-5 (8-10 year old). Her last paragraph: "We are teachers and students who want to make a difference in our world. We know we can do this when we reach out to others around the globe to share our common interests and concerns and build bridges of understanding between us. The Week in the Life project has given us this opportunity. It has also shown us what technology integration should look like. In this season when we give special focus to the things we are grateful for, we want to acknowledge the opportunity we have each day to learn with and from each other, as well as to be inspired by the learning all around us."

Tasha Cowdy from the Yokohama International School shares some final comments based on her experience with Very young students and global collaboration while she was doing the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher course last semester.

The official Flat Classroom channel on YouTube

Thought provoking quad blog post about global awareness and digital citizenship from Flat Classroom Certified Teachers

Flat Classroom will run another global live event in Hawaii, July 24-26 2013. plan to join us now! "Educators and students interested in global issues and improving their international connections should join this conference."

The AAS students are doing an excellent job (many of them) leaving comments on their edits, this is something that all Flat Classroom teachers should work towards. My compliments.

I want to point out Terry Smith, a judge for Flat Classroom this past 8 weeks, and what he did as he did his judging. He used the process of judging to see what the students were saying about edtech and current trends as well as to have current information to share his students, but he also modeled excellent feedback by leaving messages for the students he judged. It is the words that communicate presence and the students who received messages from him came to me with excitement. While many of our amazing volunteer judges do this, I wanted to point it out because he did it so well. This is the link to the thread where we talked about what he did but you can also click on his name and see the kinds of comments he left and the videos he reviewed. This is the kind of "flattening" that creates mutually beneficial symbiotic learning relationships but also gives us good feedback for improving what we're doing with the students. You can volunteer to judge projects on this website as well.

Vicki, this link does not seem to work? It takes me to a blank comment form on the Ning.

Excellent video create by Maureen Tumenas as part of the 'Flat Classroom Project for Teachers'. Historical overview of wearable technology and a review of real world scenarios for use.

Flat Classroom Certified teacher Aaron Maurer shares his frank views and strategies for global collaboration and global education with Dr Z from the University of Northern Iowa. Excellent insight into how to flatten the classroom walls and meet challenges headon to globalize attitudes and experiences of students. Thanks Aaron!

Collaborative Writing Rubrics - this is the rubric used for the video artifact and wikis on the Flat Classroom project. 

Created by Theresa Allen @tdallen5 to support the ISTE presentation Do you co-create at the elementary level? Flat Classrooms Do More info at http://tinyurl.com/flatiste

Announcing! Michael Furdyk Frank Guttler Anne Mirtschin Chris Betcher Kristina Stoney Ann S. Michaelsen Flat Connections Conference @mfurdyk @frankguttler @murcha @betchaboy @Kristinastoney @annmic

Global Project starting in December for upper elementary/middle school Aaron Maurer - Flat Classroom Certified Teacher

Those of you who teach filmmaking will find this set of filmterms very helpful to share with students as they consider filmmaking. This is a great list to use with Flat Classroom filmmakers as well.

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

Join Kyle Dunbar and the next Flat Classroom virtual book club! Meetings will be on Mondays at 7:30pm EST on the following dates: January 7th January 21st February 4th February 18th March 4th March 18th

Created by Lisette Casey, as part of the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher course

A list of the many Flat Classroom Teachers presenting on global collaboration and learning at the Global Education Conference, November 12-16. All details at http://globaleducationconference.com

Home for the Google hangout by Australian Computer group. This weeks hangout featured Flat Classroom with Vicki and Julie