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The Ning for the upcoming conference in January -- it is REALLY Happening - I'm so excited!

The conference in January.

In this case, arts, entertainment and leisure influences science and health -- viral videos and the new way that information spreads is fundamentally changing activism and promoting change. Talk about something to another person and just have a "jab session" -- make a video that goes viral and you can change the world.

Interestingly, inconvenient youth is built on the Ning platform. Fascinating use. This video from the blue man group on the environment has been widely viewed around the world. Such videos spark social change -- these are not TV commercials but viral videos that spread from blog to blog and email to email. How information travels has fundamentally changed.

Ning for flat classroom project with Don Tapscott and Grown Up Digital

This project is known as one of the best uses of web 2.0 tools in education.

This is the Flat Classroom Project Ning holding our reflections and partner communications for this year's project betwen 7 classes in Qatar, US, Australia, Austria, and China.

Social network for flat classroom project.

Helpful page describing Virtual Communication

flatclassroom virtual communication ning, fifth

A letter from "Joe the Student" to President-Elect Obama. He needs to keep his BlackBerry and Joe the Student wants to keep his cell phone in school so they both can be part of the 21st Century.

This is the largest group of educators and is a ning -- something you should discussion the the education area. Also has virtual communication tools in here as well.

Two Carnegie Mellon students are going to study the dynamics of Classroom 2.0. So, this session is going to be on Monday, October 20th -- find out more information here.

This photograph snapped by five students from five different countries at the flat classroom conference says it all.

I love this reflection from the flat classroom conference. This is my favorite movie that I like to share.

This is what happens when students connect online. They learn to trust people.

I love this article from Pennsylvania about Suzy Nestico's class participation in the Flat Classroom project and the Flat Classroom conference. Many in pennsylvania have struggled because of their restrictive rules. Suzy gets it done. "The Flat Classroom Project, cofounded by Julie Lindsay, Beijing, China and Vicki Davis, Camilla, Ga., speaks to the very heart of Pennsylvania's Classrooms for the Future initiative and 21st Century learning, Nestico said. It utilizes technologies such as a Ning and Wikispaces that allow students to collaborate with other students around the world to peer edit and design a variety of multimedia, despite location and cultural barriers, much like how the real world is starting to work. Each student works with an international partner to create a multimedia presentation based on one of the 10 "Global Economic Flatteners," as described by Thomas L. Friedman in his book "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century." Nestico learned of the Flat Classroom concept while completing her master's degree in education at Wilkes University, and felt it would give her students an opportunity to explore cultural and political issues without ever having to leave home. After participating in the projects with multiple classes over the past year-and-a-half, new doors opened and, now, students are beginning to meet face-to-face, she said. Students are not just doing education, they are living it, creating it, and ultimately, reshaping what it will look like for others in the future, Nestico said." Great byline that gets to the heart of what we're doing.

Article highlighting Mount Carmel Area's participation in the Flat Classroom Conference in Mumbai, India

A great example of a student handshake video/blog with proper image citations as part of the blog post.

Excellent overview of Thomas Friedman's lecture at MIT which gives essential information on the history of globalization as written by a tenth grader. This is excellent writing and a nice overview of what he says in the fifty minute video. (She also embedded the video.) Excellent work. Miller also writes for Terry Freedman out of the UK, in a column called "Ask Miller" and I think her writing skills have been honed and improved as she has written for Terry as a ninth grader. She is a product also of the flat world as she has worked to write in a Google Doc for a person across the Atlantic Ocean!