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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"

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

The Global Schools Assessment is the best way for a school to benchmark where they are in supporting students' global competence. It is an assessment tool to help determine how global your school is and offer ways to strenthen practice.

"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."

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

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

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.

Great article about how educational leaders can support and encourage global competency within their schools

Official press release

Great review of GlobalEdCon and Vicki Davis' session!

As Vicki and Julie state, "Once you go Flat, you never go back!" My passion for global education has only gotten stronger through the participation of this project. All of these students that I had the opportunity to work with through both teams that we operated have done nothing but remind why I love my job! Kids are amazing! Simply put. When they shine and show their talents and you know that it is all them that have done the work, then as a teacher/leader you know you have done your job. I simply sat back and watched them blow my mind. It is amazing what kids can do when you place them in a situation where there is no ceiling but the ones they place on themselves. When they remove that ceiling WATCH OUT! because it is a spectacle to behold.

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