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.

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!

Global project from Jason Graham and Tasha Cowdy

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

An interesting panel session that will also be streamed to the world coming up this week.

"Teacher Preparation for the Global Age: The Imperative for Change, highlights promising practices identified during this meeting and subsequent discussions and suggests a framework for internationalizing the education of all pre-service teachers and increasing the number of world language teachers, especially in less commonly taught languages."

Students from the A Week in the Life Project 12-2 talk about their schools.This is an excellent artifact for comparing similarities and differences between lifestyles and cultures.

Interesting brainstorming and research tool.

Site by Wesley Fryer. Great resources

Wesley Fryer created this excellent portal leading to ideas, tools and resources for media in the curriculum. I love this!

"SpeakingImage is an application for creating interactive images and share them with others. You can also create groups, add wikis and set different permissions to manage collaborative work "

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."

"After more more than a decade of e-safety work in UK schools, the evidence suggests that most young people, who are supported and informed, know the key e-safety issues and are able to stay safe online."

Publication by Steve Katz,Technology Integration Specialist Korea International School South Korea @stevekatz. Very useful and thorough, highly recommended for teachers across all disciplines.

This is an excellent article written by Wikispaces founder, Adam Frey, and James Byers.

Ed Tech Crew interview Julie Lindsay and talk about teaching and learning in the 21C including all things Flat Classroom

"Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Use your web browser to combine video and audio with content from the rest of the web - from text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds. "

Excellent collaborative work by teachers in the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher 12-1 cohort re designing a handshake for Middle school students using Glogster.

This blog post really resonates with me. Content delivery is only part of the answer to teaching and learning now. All teachers and schools need to broaden their horizons.