The brief overview of the Flat Classroom project as shared at princeton University

2. Teacher

3. Blogger

4. Co-Founder

5. Webcaster

7. Research Based Best Practices

8. Differentiated Instruction

9. Authentic Assessment

10. Cooperative Learning

11. Project Based Learning

13. Taking IT Global Collaborative Project Contest First Place 2007 ISTE SIGTel Online Learning Award Winner 2007

14. Flat Classroom http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com Winner: ISTE’s Online Learning Award 2007 Taking IT Global Best Online Project 2006 Featured in: Thomas Friedman’s Book The World is Flat P 501-503

15. Horizon Project

16. 7 countries

17. Horizon Project http:// horizonproject.wikispaces.com http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com

18. 400 + students

19. Let’s join our student’s together from the ‘other side of the flat world’ And the result has fundamentally changed the way we as individual educators approach what we do in the classroom….. how we do it…..and who we do it with……

20. What does a flat classroom look like?

21. TWO types of communication methods: SYNCHRONOUS and ASYNCHRONOUS

24. Traditional Classroom Austria Qatar USA Separated by Time

25. Flat Classroom Student in Austria writes a blog post USA student responds Group Blogging Platform Unified by asynchronous communications

26. Traditional Classroom Austria Qatar USA Separated by Space

27. Flat Classroom Wiki Cooperating Teachers unified space via Internet

28. Unified by asynchronous communications (wiki)

29. TEAMS “ Working with people across the world has challenged me.” “ The majority of my partners wanted to contribute something meaningful to the project.” Horizon Project Students http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com

30. Principle The effective FLAT classroom structure has BOTH ASYNCHRONOUS and SYNCHRONOUS communications methods.

33. 6 Senses of Conceptual Age

34. The Methods

35. A Whole New Mind Design & Innovation Story & Empathy The Fun Factor (Play) Connecting the World Online 1A 1B 1C World Wide Web 2A 2B 2C Work Flow Software 3A 3B 3C Uploading 4A 4B 4C Web 2.0 5A 5B 5C Globalization & Outsourcing 6A 6B 6C Google 7A 7B 7C PLE’s Social Networking 8A 8B 8C Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing 9A 9B 9C Virtual Communications 10A 10B 10C Wireless Connectivity 11A 11B 11C

36. Student Produced Video

37. Collaborative Group Wiki

38. Westwood Schools Summit http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/Summits

43. This precious isn’t evil.

44. Tools are Morally Neutral

45. Is a cupcake good?

48. Ban Cupcakes!

49. Cell Phones

50. iPods

51. Online Videos

53. Other Dangerous Weapons

54. The most dangerous weapon ever invented

56. Don’t change me!