Awards and Mentions
The Flat Classroom Projects and founders have received many awards and recognitions since the founding of the projects in 2006.
Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis have co-created award winning global collaborative projects linking over 1000 students in more than 40 classrooms within the last 3 years.
Recent Awards
SHORT-LISTED (September 2009) for a World Innovation Summit for Education award in the pluralism section. http://www.wise-qatar.org/
FIRST PLACE in the Best Wiki 2008 category of the 2008 Edublog Awards http://edublogawards.com/2008
FIRST PLACE in the Best Wiki 2006 category of the 2006 Edublog Awards.
FIRST PLACE in the SIGTel Online Learning Awards for 2007. Special Interest Group Telelearning is part of ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). The SIGTel Online Learning Awards recognize international innovation.
FIRST PLACE in the Taking IT Global collaborative project contest 2007
Selected Awards and Featured Events:
Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis have co-created award winning global collaborative projects linking over 1000 students in more than 40 classrooms within the last 3 years.
Recent Awards
SHORT-LISTED (September 2009) for a World Innovation Summit for Education award in the pluralism section. http://www.wise-qatar.org/
FIRST PLACE in the Best Wiki 2008 category of the 2008 Edublog Awards http://edublogawards.com/2008
FIRST PLACE in the Best Wiki 2006 category of the 2006 Edublog Awards.
FIRST PLACE in the SIGTel Online Learning Awards for 2007. Special Interest Group Telelearning is part of ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). The SIGTel Online Learning Awards recognize international innovation.
FIRST PLACE in the Taking IT Global collaborative project contest 2007
Selected Awards and Featured Events:
- Guests on the ISTE Eduverse Talks show, April 2009. Filmed and broadcast from Second Life, the series highlights innovations in educational technology, in both real life and Second Life. http://www.iste-eduverse.org/blog/iste-eduverse-talks-episode-5.html
- Keynote presenters for K12 Online Conference 2008 in the 'Kicking it up a notch' section. http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=293
- The Horizon Project
- Finalist Edublog Best Wiki in Education 2007
- included in Don Tapscott's book Grown Up Digital, November 2008
- The Flat Classroom™ Project:
- SHORT-LISTED (September 2009) for a World Innovation Summit for Education award in the pluralism section. (Laureate winners to be announced end of September 09). http://www.wise-qatar.org/
- winner Edublog Best Wiki in Education 2008
- winner SIGTEL's Online Learning Award 2007;
- winner Taking IT Global Best Collaborative Learning Project 2007;
- winner Edublog Award for best Wiki 2006;
- included in Thomas Friedman's 3rd edition of The World is Flat, (Julie and Vicki collaborated with Friedman online to write the excerpt in the chapter called 'If it's not happening then it's because you're not doing it')
- featured extensively in ISTE's recent book publication Reinventing Project Based Learning: Your field guide to real-world projects in the digital age by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss
- Featured in the book by Laurence Peters 'Global Education: Using Technology to Bring the World to Your Students'
- Featured in the book by Curtis Bonk ‘The World is Open: How Web technology is Revolutionizing Education’
