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Great reflection blog post from Sunny, a teacher in Australia who ventured to the Flat Classroom Conference in Japan! Full of ideas I've headed home - collected my thoughts and hope to put some of the plans we made as teams into action - because flattening our world - connected across the globe to share experience, help each other and learn together is what education should be about. Final presentations and more about the conference can be accessed at http://conference2013.flatclassroomproject.org/home

Great upgrade for Wikispaces!

We all tend to think we are more central to a project than we really are. This is no surprise but is very important for those who think they are indispensible because you're not. ;-( I just think being realistic is important. This is also a challenge for us in Flat Classroom because students think they are important and central EVEN if they aren't communicating and reaching out to partners and this is a problem. I've had kids claim they "did all the work" and when looking at the words, it doesn't bear out. They are shocked when they realize how little they've done. I think this thought process is a a problem for collaboration. No matter what people do, they think they did it all even if the wiki says otherwise or data says otherwise. For this reason, it is important to point out this disparity to teammates and also how to quantify the participation of others. "Do you provide information or materials which are necessary for them to do their job? To what extent are the tasks you each do related? Now imagine that everyone in the group does a similar exercise, quantifying their own relationship to everyone else. According to research from Jonathon Cummings of -Duke's Fuqua Business school, you are likely to overestimate the degree to which others on your team depend on you!"

@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.

Informative article by Vicki Jan 31, 2013 about global collaboration and Flat Classroom.

Database by Larry Rosen, author of "iDisorder" and "Rewired". Might be helpful in teaching digital citizenship in the classroom.

I am excited to be attending the ECIS IT Conference in London as a Keynote speaker this year. I will also be facilitating the Leadership Workshop, pre-conference event. Hoping to meet lots of new educators wanting to flatten their classroom!

Take courses and create your own courses! Could have potential for the classroom.

A set of resources including the presentation slideshow from ISTE 2013. This was a real as well as virtual presentation, using Blackboard Collaborate.

Good luck to Eva Brown (Flat Classroom Certified Teacher), this is her Google TA application video. I love it!

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!

I met Jutta Treviranus from the FLOE project. This is about creating open resources that are translatable, move from place to place, can be modified and made accessible to everyone. It is has tools that will make your content accessible for all learners. If you're making free content, you'll want to go to this website and look at their tools to help make your content accessible to everyone. This is great because it can help translate into other languages for the content we're creating for Flat Classroom.

Love watching this classroom make applesauce for the K-2 flatclassroom project. They are showing others about food in their region.

"My best advice is to tap into an existing project. There are lots of them! But before you begin your search, take a few minutes to define what kind of project you're looking for. What areyour project goals? How will you incorporate your content area standards in addition to giving your students opportunities for developing global competencies? What time frame do you have in mind? Are you looking for a long-term project or a short-term one? What scope do you have in mind? Are you looking to connect with a single teacher/classroom/school or multiple partners? What kind of partner(s) are you looking for? Grade level? Subject area? Location?"