Flat Classroom Project

This blog post shares the results of a QR Code hunt. As I learn more about hardlinking, this is a fascinating topic.

Mobile phones and learning - a presentation from the UK

QR codes create a hyperlink between a picture in the real world and th eonline world -- this is called mobile tagging and the act of linking is called a hardlink.

QR Codes are a tool that is becoming used to link moble and handheld users with the web in a process that is called making a hardlink or mobile tagging.

For the NetGenEd project, students at Suffern Middle school created a video to challenge and deliver the keynote for the project. It is amazing the script that these students wrote for the project!

These students from a middle school in New Jersey shared wrote and created this keynote address for NetGenEd 2009, a Flat Classroom project. It is phenomenal.

I love this video that George Haines and the students made about the experience of having students from around the world come together at the Flat Classroom conference. This is what they said about the conference - a phrase that the students coined and carried through the conference. Boy, what a great experience.

When the students got together at the conference and came up with this saying. Learning not to stereotype and how to connect to solve our world's problems. This is what we are doing!

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.

The progression to help students meet face to face. Steve Says: "The Project alone is already unique and very amazing considering the fact that we are actually working together with students around the world with the help of technology. So what better way to finish the project off by actually working with the people we have been working with online."

Looking back, this is the blog post for me that changed it all - Thursday, October 12, 2006, I reflected on my students writing about Thomas Friedman's book with some great responses -- but Julie Lindsay responded with an idea to join our classrooms together to study these trends and thus, Flat Classroom was born.

Peace through education - this fits so well with what we're doing and seeing in Flat Classroom. Oh, if I could get an audience to learn but also to just connect for the vision with flat classroom.

This important story from 3 cups of tea is one you'll want to include as part of connecting the world online.

There is a silent player to this whole thing in Iran -- Google maps.

"A 21st Century Education" compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen. A set of videos about 21st century learning

1000s of videos, articles, answers & people, here to help you. You can do anything & Videojug will show you how - it's all free, so get involved and get good!

The latest effort by the New Humanities Collaborative to tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web. What does it mean to write? to read? to publish? The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined. Can the educational system rise to the challenge of preparing students to live, work, think, and thrive in an environment of ceaseless change?

Victorian govt netbook initiative wiki for teachers to share resources and collaborate.

Imagine, your very own CO-BRANDED version of TeacherTube filled with just your K-12 school, college/university or organization's media content. Post your class videos, your school district documents, or audio recording from one of your organizational meetings. You decide how your educational site works. Remove, approve, add, upload -- literally at the click of a button.

Excellent resource from Alec Courosa!

Application lets smart phone users send a message and a link to a map marking their location.

Glympse, a Seattle-area startup, is the latest in the field. Its application, also called Glympse, lets smart phone users send a message and a link to a map marking their location to anyone in their address book.