So excited to be co-leading the Flat Classroom Live! event in Hawaii with my friend and Flat Classroom co-founder Julie Lindsay. This event for students and educators is a life-changing way to learn about new technology and make powerful connections between schools. Join us July 24-26. 

Hope some of my new Tumblr friends can make it. It is going to be a blast - I’m taking 15 students and parents on the trip!

If you want to collaborate and do something globally but just have one or two days and have no budget, a sounding board for one of the Flat Classroom projects is a great way to get started. This is the website where we have information on what sounding boards do and how you can sign up now. The window of opportunity for this semester is closing so if you’re interested, sign up now.

“A Sounding Board is a classroom that reviews the collaborative wiki pages created by students in the Flat Classroom Project.
Sounding Board classrooms are not part of this project in other ways, they come in specifically to review collaborative wikis and provide feedback to participating classrooms and students. They can be classes from typically Grade 6 and older.
Sounding Board classrooms will sign up to give feedback to assigned Topic / Wiki teams as shown on the HomePage.

The amount of time it will take to peer review will depend on the experience the class has with online global collaborations. Students will need to carefully review material posted on the wiki (including watching the videos or presentations associated with that group) and then provide thoughtful feedback using the linked Peer Evaluation Criteria.

More details can be found on the Sounding Board wiki of the project you are applying for. The current project is FCP13-1. See further instructions and method at http://bit.ly/WGBzUt

More information about Flat Classroom Projects can be found at http://bit.ly/WLJaXp”

This is my public evernote notebook where I’m sharing notes about global collaboration in education, technology, and my notes from conferences. If you’re following the leading edge of technology and use evernote, you can use this notebook to keep abreast of the things I’m collecting in this area. I’ve added Julie Lindsay to the notebook, so, we’ll look to collect there as well.

Evernote shared notebooks are great ways to share collections of information in a slightly different format than bookmarks.

Kyle Dunbar is opening up a virtual book club about the book I coauthored, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds. She has the schedule and information posted on her blog post (linked from title above) and the group will be meeting on Mondays at 7pm. if you’re interested in global collaboration in the classroom as well as differentiation and project based learning, she’s a great one to spend time with. (Of course, i think the book is good because I poured my life into it, but the conversation about global collaboration using a common framework is great.) If you want to join - go to her website. Students are the greatest textbook ever writen for each other but why are so many schools afraid to link students and open that book?

Julie Lindsay and Think Global School and Flat Classroom have partnered to create the World Wide Think Tank and organization for students to brainstorm and take action on common issues. If you want to join - here is their wiki.

My friend Julie has written a great blog post on how to attend the Gloal Education Conference. You’ll want to use this as a reference.