September 2008 Blog Posts (5)

Remember to join the Group Flat Classroom Project 2008

Hello All:

Please remember to join the Group entitled Flat Classroom Project 2008. This is where discussions about the 2008 project will take place.

At the moment the group only has only 23 members and many more students have actually joined this Ning in recent days.

To summarise, you need to have:

1. Joined this Ning

2. Joined the… Continue

Added by Steve Madsen on September 28, 2008 at 8:47am — 1 Comment

Admin Students and Teachers together - Why do we use the Ning?

Hello everyone and welcome to our Flat Classroom Ning and also to our Flat Classroom Project 2008.

If you are new to the project you may be wondering why we use the 'Ning'.

Vicki and I like to call this 'educational networking' rather than the term 'social networking'. We expect all students to learn how to behave and use the ning to interact, blog, discuss and share with others from the project.

The Ning is where we connect. It is where we blog and discuss things. This is… Continue

Added by Julie Lindsay on September 23, 2008 at 5:38am — No Comments

Teachers Hello from Oman

Hello all,

It's great to be among you in this project. I am sure it's going to be a good experience for me and my students and we will benefit from it.

Thanks Vicki and Julie for this opportunity.

Regards,

Salim Al-Busaidi
Osama Bin Zaid School
Oman

Added by Salim_Al-Busaidi on September 20, 2008 at 12:35am — 4 Comments

Thanks for wonderful opportunity

I am glad to have the opportunity to meet so many teachers and students through this flatclassroom initiative. My students will ofcourse love this class too. They already dig computer period and now they'll get to make so many new friends. I would like to thank Vicki and Julie for their support. Thanks.

Added by minhaaj ur rehman on September 19, 2008 at 4:16am — No Comments

Admin Flat Classroom 2008 Schools Announced

We're so excited to share this announcement - we had so many schools apply and have done our best to get a good fit for the project AND find ways for every teacher who applied to be involved in some way. Unfortunately, we've had a few challenges reaching everyone who applied as some firewalls won't let us through. If you are one of those teachers who applied and you have not heard from us -- PLEASE check your spam folder -- we've been trying to reach you. Here is our official… Continue

Added by Vicki Davis on September 16, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments