Over the past 2 weeks students and teachers globally have been voting for the top student and teacher projects. They were asked to vote for the ideas that would have the most potential if implemented.  We are excited to announce the results.

Student Projects:
First Place: Team 9 Movement 9
Second place: Team 19 Enermeter
Third place (tied): Team 1 Culture Connect and Team 6 Clear Water

Top Teacher Project - Team 10 Tackling Transport Together

Congratulations to the above teams who have been recognised by supportive viewers virtually. All conference material can be found on or linked from the Flat Classroom Conference Ning, and the Conference 2011 wiki.

A culmination of the Flat Classroom Conference was a student-led celebration and ceremony featuring student and teacher work. The top 6 student ideas had been transformed into videos that clearly showed what they wanted to happen in terms of action in the future. There is a global VOTE on now to determine the top 3 videos.
The vote is open until March 12. All details on the Voting wiki page.

Some fun, some frustration with ice and cold.....but the Flat Classroom Conference at Beijing BISS International School was not deterred by the snow!

We are about to start Day 2 of the Flat Classroom Conference 2011 here in Beijing, China. Already the Student Summit has been meeting for 1.5 days and teams are working furiously towards their 'animatic' presentation before lunch today. The Leadership strand have provided feedback to the student teams for their oral pitch of concepts and ideas. They have also developed their own curriculum ideas for implementing a project or idea that joins classrooms around the world and flattens the classroom walls and will pitch these to student teams this morning for feedback.
This conference is about global collaboration, it is about flattening the learning experience. Students, teachers, leaders are learning and leading from each other. We are excited, we are exhausted! and we have great expectations for what today will bring!

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Beijing (BISS) International School is abuzz with activity preparing for the Flat Classroom Conference. Educators and students from more than fifteen countries are coming to Beijing to learn about and do global collaboration.

This conference is unique because it is project based. Spotted with short, high energy presentations, adults and students will design and create global collaborative projects while being coached and taught by some of the leading thought leaders in educational technology.

As a conference, co-organizer, I'm amazed at the superlative effort being put forward by this school and the lovely hospitality shown by our host country of China. While there are certainly technological challenges (as there are with technology differences in any country) we will be able to discuss and experience global collaboration as we work to envision the future of education.

The students are arriving and my seven students and I have been here since Saturday. We've loved the food and enjoyed seeing the beautiful scenery in Beijing as well as kung fu theater, Chinese opera, and acrobatics as well as a delicious Peking duck dinner.

The world is coming to Beijing and I believe that some very impactful learning experiences and projects will emerge from this conference and that connections will be made that will make an impact on global collaboration as we know it. We have over fifty virtual participants registered who will participate as full members of our teams.

OK, gotta run - there is a lot to do! We have people coming in to meet us at the W.A.L.L. "where we all learn and lead." I am hearing bustle and hustle in the hall as they prepare to leave for their tour of WAB (Western Academy of Beijing.)

Vicki Davis, Conference Co-organizer.