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A webinar I presented for the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration on August 12. In 25 minutes I cover the attributes of a global educator and how to get started with online global collaboration. Registration for my course 'The Global Educator' can be found on the CILC website at http://www.cilc.org/Professional-Development/Get-Certified-with-Courses/Global-Educator-Certification.aspx

Yong Zhao's new book in 2012 - "The book is about preparing global, creative, and entrepreneurial talents. It is my attempt to answer a number of pressing questions facing education today. These questions are exemplified by two new stories that have dominated the media recently, one around the Facebook IPO and the other the debt and jobs of college graduate"

Read about how 'flat' learning, digital technology and innovative leadership support online global learning and collaboration. The first of two blog posts featuring concepts from the new book 'The Global Educator: Leveraging technology for collaborative learning and teaching' by Julie Lindsay

A webinar by Julie Lindsay, 'The Global Educator' author and Founder and CEO of Flat Connections along with other global educators. August 2016

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"

Informative article by Vicki Jan 31, 2013 about global collaboration and Flat Classroom.

If you are interested in networking with others participating in the Global Education Conference, please leave your information here. Partners, sponsors, presenters, volunteers and attendees are all welcome! This spreadsheet will be public, so that others can find you. For more information about the conference, please visit http://globaleducationconference.com where you can sign up for general information updates and to present on this site. Our social network supporting the conference will be the Global Education Collaborative: http://globaleducation.ning.com.

Five minutes of the Best of WISE 2012! World Innovation Summit in Education, held in Doha Qatar November 13-15, 2012

This is an excellent article written by Wikispaces founder, Adam Frey, and James Byers.

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

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!