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

A Global Journey - the Lern2Talk (mini-keynote) I gave at the Learning 2.012 conference, Beijing October 2012

Global Virtual Classroom portal. Connects classrooms around the world for collaboration. Mystery Skype - call for classrooms now.

Helen McConaghy and teachers at her school created this interdisciplinary global project

Global project from Jason Graham and Tasha Cowdy

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.

Flat Classroom Certified teacher, Aaron Maurer, has designed an implemented this global project that shares the excitement of the Bald Eagle life cycle with friends around the world.

If you have experience with debate and are an educator, we need you. Will you take one or two hours of your time (at most) and serve as a judge for the Eracism global debate project? We have students around the world debating now and need a few more educators. Here's information on signing up. We'll train you on how to share. it is done using voicethread. Thanks for your consideration. If you coach debate, you might want to familiarize yourself with this new debate format "simulated sychronous" using voicethread.

"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.""

"Cultural awareness in the context of a global project reaches further than using correct 'netiquette', inclusive language and knowing what time zone your group members are from. At the core of cultural awareness is respecting and embracing cultural difference and valuing the cultural learning taking place." A collection of resources for looking at digital citizenship through the areas of awareness 'cultural'.

My presentation at the TICAL School Leadership Summit today

This short United-Eye Productions video employs free-style animation to show five key ways that education is improved by technology: Global learning Game-based learning Virtual worlds, digital simulations, and models Mobile learning Real-time data-based decision making

My friend Toni Olivieri-Barton mentioned this in a FLAT Session yesterday where we were talking about global collaboration. It is a Video mail sharing site where you flip and send video back and forth. Toni said she'd like to try it with students. This would be interesting to try. This is better than text email for families separated by time - you can do a video message. Interesting. There are also apps for it.

Another active network of educators implementing global opportunities for their students

Aaron Maurer, middle school teacher with student teams participating in Eracism 12-2, shares his thoughts about the final debate where one student team debated in the HS round.

@langwitches, Silvia Tolisano reviews the wonderful book written by @kathycassidy for elementary level classrooms to being connecting with the world. Excellent review! Excellent book!

Studnets of @ebrownorama share their experiences presenting virtually at the flat Classroom Conference, japan this year.

A 'must read' article about the changes and opportunities in online learning globally.