eT@lking: Flat Classroom Projects and Global Collaboration

Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis were the guest presenters on eT@lking. These two innovative, creative, forward thinking teachers have created the Flat Classroom Projects. They have won many awards for their work and I love their mottos:- “Creating the Future” and “Building the Bridges of today that the society of tomorrow will walk across.” In this session, Vicki and Julie spoke about what is a flat classroom, how do you know when you have one, levels of collaboration and the seven steps to flatten your classroom. New projects will be commencing soon and there is  Flat Classroom Leadership Workshop and Summit coming up in Feb 2011 in Beijing, China.

Here is the link to the recording.

Tech Talk Tuesdays -What I do with Web2.0!

Jess McCulloch – an early uptaker of and innovator with web2.0, a young mother, a treasured colleague and vivacious presenter, talked about “My Use of Web 2.0”. Jess ably walked us through her blog and other favourite websites, featuring a number of web2.0 tools, answered questions and demonstrated their purpose. Jess talked about the Interactive Whiteboard Challenge which she organises and showed the wiki that is used for this project. Her audience came from a large number of countries – Germany, England, Canada, USA, Australia, Vietnam, South America and Ukraine. Listen to the recording.

From the chat:

• The link for Diigo Classroom 2.0 is http://groups.diigo.com/group/classroom20
• Plurk is conversations, twitter = announcements
• http://schoolnotes.com/
• PhotoPeach is a slide show with a quiz
• photopeach allows you to annotate your slide show with text as well as add music or audio to it
• http://edgate.com/ and http://snhelp.edgate.com/
• Top 100 Web 2.0 tools for educators at
• Storybird is a site for collaborative storywriting.  Uses work from professional illustrator work, students write about it and can create a story book.
• Sample photopeach work from Peggy George
• Tweetdeck or hootsuite both for managing twitterfeeds
• Tweetdeck just as useful for tweeting from multiple Twitter accounts
• Emapey’s blog is his PhD
• http://www.diigo.com
• Tutorials and resources on diigo from Peggy George.Thanks
• you can actually save your Diigo lists to iGoogle because it has an RSS feed
• Interactive White Board Challenge
• Online teachers could also use Google Docs new Drawing collaborative tool for online WB as well, I suppose. I haven’t worked with large groups, but we have used it with up to 6 people at a time.
• http://popurls.com
• For those of us who want to get fit, lose weight etc http://www.dailymile.com
• #pics4school
• you can add photos to that page you saw just by tagging your pics with pics4school
• don’t forget the Reform Symposium this week too-starting on Fri 🙂 http://reformsymposium.com/schedule/day-1-friday/
• Virtual worlds – book club http://grou.ps/twitterlits
• Fantastic work by a US teacher using Reaction Grid
• Powertunes