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Are you looking for a definitive book on embedding global collaboration into the classroom and managing global projects? This book cover that and more. Written for classroom teachers K-12 as well as teacher trainees and teacher educators. The pedagogy is transferable and shareable by all. Thank you to all those who have been tweeting and sharing that they are reading and using the book! Julie Lindsay, co-author

"The efforts of the Connect All Schools consortium and like-minded programs, such as Flat Classroom, Edmodo, Twitter chats, Global Read Aloud Day, Skype in the Classroom, Microsoft's Partners in Learning, Global Classroom Scrapbook Project, and the Intel Teach Program, have vastly increased the diversity and number of students gaining global awareness and empathy beyond what would be possible through study abroad alone. Still, only small fraction of U.S. K-12 students currently have access to some kind of international experience, whether physical or virtual."

Go global in your classroom this year and join a cohort to become a Flat Classroom Certified Teacher!

Julie Balen's blog - One of our new Flat Classroom Certified Teacher graduates from the 12-1 cohort. A thoughtful and committed educator who now flattens the classroom wherever she can!

Join us March 7-10 at the Flat Classroom Conference 2013 Japan. Use social media to connect and collaborate! Students and teachers together.

Honor Morman, a Flat Classroom Certified Teacher, shares her thoughts about introducing global collaboration into the curriculum. "Here's what two of my students said about our participation in the Flat Classroom Project, a 12-week project in which we collaborated with 15 other classes in seven different countries to create a vision for the future of education and society based on emerging technologies and the characteristics of the net generation: "[I learned] how important it is to be a member of a global society-communicating globally and working together as a global community is the only way we can solve global issues and improve the lives of all of us. Communicating and collaborating via the web with global partners is how we will do it in future." -Lara "[Participating in this project helped me become] a global leader, able to communicate important global ideas and different perspectives across cultures and borders and share those ideas for the betterment of my community and the world." -Katherine"

My friend and Flat Classroom teacher Anne Mirtschin @murcha from Victoria, Australia writes a sincere and enlightened review about ISTE 2013.

Interesting opportunities for classrooms to connect with the world via Skype.

Join Kyle Dunbar and the next Flat Classroom virtual book club! Meetings will be on Mondays at 7:30pm EST on the following dates: January 7th January 21st February 4th February 18th March 4th March 18th

Created by Julie, Jason and Tasha as their 'quad-blogging' assignment for the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher course 12-1 Excellent resources and comments!

The Horizon Report Preview is out! Below are the selected emerging technologies that will be written up in the full report by February. Flat Classroom invites interested teachers with High School classes to join the NetGenEd 2013 project that focuses on collaborative student research and multimedia development based on these emerging trends. Read full details here: http://www.netgened.org/ Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less - Massively Open Online Courses - Tablet Computing Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years - Big Data and Learning Analytics - Game-Based Learning Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years - 3D Printing - Wearable Technology

AJ Juliani interviews Julie and Vicki on their book, 'Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds'

Slides with embedded videos for the Flat Classroom Conference 2013 Closing Ceremony. Students shared ideas for the theme "How do we help each other?

"Connected Learners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Global Classroom"

@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.