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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"

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

Inspiring initiative from New Zealand - creative ideas for how to share over 100 days. This could be the catalyst for an interesting global project!

I always love reading Jason Graham's blog - it is rich with shared learning experiences, and about students (he teaches 6 year olds!) connecting, collaborating and co-creating.

Studnets of @ebrownorama share their experiences presenting virtually at the flat Classroom Conference, japan this year.

Follow Jason Graham on Twitter and read his blog, @jasongraham99 A Grade 1 teacher out there doing it and sharing it!

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

World reporting. For students, by students. An exciting initiative by the Washington International School that now includes schools all over the world. Journalism and other students writing blog posts and sharing images of news events globally.

A great example of a fairly simple global project that involved 33 classes in 17 countries around the world.International Dot Day encourages creativity in people around the world on Sept 15th. Students drew a dot using an iPad app. These dots were shared via dropbox, flickr or email to Chrissy Hellier who created the project. She put this great little video together.

Sharon Peters shares ideas to promote our Global Social Entrepreneurship Summit happening in Mumbai end of February 2014. Come and join us! It is not too late.

Delighted to see this article in THE Journal about global collaboration, including Flat Connections projects. hats off to Theresa Allen and Avylon Magarey for also sharing their ideas and practices as they join classrooms around the world.