Flat Classroom Project

Definition of the World Wide Web - "The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them by using hyperlinks. "

This website is a centralized location for crowdsourcing US government initiatives, grants, contests, etc. Here are some great contests to engage your grad students and high school students if you're here in the US (or just about anyone.)

US government is crowdsourcing problems and ideas on this website.

Work will become less routine, characterised by increased volatility, hyperconnectedness, 'swarming' and more," said Tom Austin, a Gartner fellow, in a media announcement.

New "social television" - you rate your shows, watch them, "check in" on the show. This is going to be very interesting.

"social television" Definitely worth "watching" This could make for a very interesting movie in the Flat Classroom project.

Some examples of crowdsourcing in the classroom.

"We realize that teachers across a wide range of disciplines are embracing multimedia as a means to engage students and bring subjects to life. We have created a series of sample lessons that can be incorporated into many aspects of the school curriculum. The lessons are intended to provide inspiration to teachers and provide them with the resources they need in order to build interesting and stimulating classes. You can browse the lessons from the menu on the left and each lesson can be downloaded as a PDF from the appropriate links. Different institutions have various rules and regulations when it comes to using recording equipment and the internet - please find below a few issues you may need to address before embarking on any multimedia projects."

Some people love the iPad while others don't. Read this reflection to get the full picture.

Providing a social platform for the collaboration and production of video content! A business model, but interesting for Flat Classroom projects.

Lots of research starting to come in that smartphones make great study helpers and curricular delivery tools. This from the Jacksonville daily news: "Onslow County students using smart phones in math courses not only outperformed their peers in math but also went on to take additional math courses. A Project K-Nect Evaluation Report, prepared by Project Tomorrow for Digital Millennial Consulting, noted that Onslow County Project K-Nect students - including students at Southwest and Dixon high schools - were more likely to achieve proficiency in algebra and algebra II than other students in their school district or state in the 2008-09 school year. Numbers for the 2009-10 school year will be released later this year."

"The topic of Mobile and Ubiquitous is seen today as personal devices that are used for communication purposes and can be taken anywhere. Common examples of these devices are computers and cell phones. "

this is a great wiki page

Congratulations to Honor Moorman for her winning a PBS Teachers Award for her work with Flat Classroom.

Online collaborative research project by Dr. Leigh Zeitz with his masters students. Great sample for those looking for examples of this type of project at the masters level.

These are the revised wiki rubrics that I highly recommend using. They are on Flat Classroom 10-2.

This is how most teachers grade the wiki for this project.

Interesting how my quotes from my kindle are aggregated in one place on Amazon's website. This whole tweeting from Kindle thing is fascinating. Love the theme of this site "Read. Review. Remember."

Children have more access to cell phones than "books on paper." My answer - redefine books and deliver all educational content via handheld. Stop defining the future of our children with the tools of our past.