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Written by Flat Classroom Certfiied teachers in the 12-1 cohort as a 'quad-blogging' challenge "Much like a mature garden, becoming a teacherpreneur takes time, a focus on the big picture and attention to the small details"

Good Creative Commons Photos.

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?"

"ISTE is proud to introduce the white paper, Technology, Coaching, and Community: Power Partners for Improved Professional Development in Primary and Secondary Education."

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.

A site that takes most large newspapers and translates it into other languages.

Whiteboard on line that we can try.

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

Might be fun to find the closest one where the students are and share these.

Someone just showed me this. Looks like Livebinders but fancier.

Resources recommended by @heyjude

Great stuff from Wes Fyer

Interesting comparison between ISTE NETS and IB Learner Profile by @seantm

I can't believe how cool this is. It is a Conference Calendar for Educators.  CHECK IT OUT!

book club

Thanks to CEM organisers for setting up our Flat Classrooms Global Network on the Connected Educator Month website. We invite educators globally to come and join our network NOW and tell us, via this website form, what you like about this connected community.

Vicki shared during our last meeting.

The Manitou Springs High School featured Flat Classroom in an online article.  :)

Makes a URL of your to do list.

This would have to be synchronous but it might be fun to try.