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I agree with some of these reasons - there are two mains issues - 1) lack of good quality e-books (in other words 'e-books' that are really PDF format with limited hyperlinking, interaction and social media 2) a lack of vision amongst teachers to encourage students to write their OWN text books.

Published by Action Stations authored by Anne Mirtschin, my Australian friend and colleague and Flat Classroom enthusiast. Congratulations on your excellent book!

Slideshow by Silvia Tolisano @langwitches. Excellent!

Some excellent tips from Jennifer Carey. I know classrooms CAN move beyond the central control of a school imposed LMS - the students are ready, let's get the teachers ready!

Thinking of ways we can use this concept for Flat Classroom: AWL, K-2

Flat Classroom in conjunction with Taking IT Global scheduled sessions for Connected Educator Month, August-September 2012. Highlight: Flat Classroom Book Club with TIGED - starts Wednesday August 22, 5pm EST

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Tom Whitby writes a provocative blog post about Connected Educator Month, August 2012. He states: "No, to be a good teacher, one does not need to be connected. However, the question is if you are a good teacher and unconnected, could you be a better teacher if you were connected? Shouldn't we strive to be the best that we can be? It's not only an Army thing. Being connected offers not only exposure to content and ideas but also the ability to create and collaborate on ideas. Being connected fosters transparency and debunks myths of education that have been harbored in the previous isolation of the education profession. This is the stuff of a true learner's dreams, and, as educators, are we not all learners?"

a way to extend the classroom with quizes.

Would this be a fun one to use for final projects in AWL?

 A search engine that gives you readability options. TWURDY stands for too wordy.

This is a cool website.  Check it out. Turn your PDF files into a book on the web. Thanks to Betsye Sargent who gave me the link.

Vicki has this at the end of her email and I clicked it to check it out!  Great Stuff!

Wanted to research what are the twitter hashtags for teachers and found this.

Student - Led conference in Hong Kong in March of 2012.  Great idea. Wish I was still teaching upperschools.

Whiteboard on line that we can try.

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