The Windows to the World global project is an intercultural ‘penpals’ experience where students in Grade/Year 3-6 (8-12 year old) write, respond, and communicate with peers, and develop online learning and digital citizenship skills. Tools like Edmodo and Padlet are used for communication and interaction between students leading to collaborative outcomes.

The Windows to the World project focuses on developing literacy and online communication skills while connected beyond the immediate classroom. The topics shared and discussed are real-world scenarios that aim to pique interest amongst students as to similarities and differences between classes and cultures.

Starting end of February!

See Windows to the World collaboration showcase from 2018-2!

The Friends for Sustainability Project is for students in Grade/Year 5-8, of approximate ages 10-14. Students connect, communicate, explore global topics and issues and share ideas and solutions through co-created digital artifacts.

The Friends for Sustainability Project curriculum focus is Interdisciplinary, including concepts for how we live, how we communicate, cultural understanding and global awareness and uses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a focus for global issues. The project also uses Design Thinking as a model to foster better understanding of the process of collaboration.

Starting mid-February!

See Friends for Sustainability collaboration showcase from 2018-2!

Turn all your students into successful poets!

The Poetry with Passion and Performance project is for Grade/Year 3-6 (approximate age 8-12). It has been created by the award-winning Australian educator Chris Trimnell, a Flat Connections Global Educator and Project Manager.

Poetry with Passion and Performance is designed to ensure student success by using carefully scaffolded poetry examples. Students will enjoy having a genuine audience as they are allocated to teams representing students beyond their own classroom walls. The final challenge will be to use any multimedia of their choice to co-create new versions of the poems with fellow team members.

Starting mid-March!

Read more on the website.

If you are on Facebook please come and join the Global Educators and Collaborators Group. With over 400 members now it is a great place to reach out and find global partners. You can post your own projects and find new opportunities.

If you can get to Chicago on March the 15th this is one event not to be missed! It is organised by GlobalEd Events (Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon) in partnership with ASCD.

Terry Godwaldt, Executive Director, the Centre for Global Education will deliver the opening keynote address, “Supporting Student Agency in a Rapidly Changing World."

Read more and register to attend!

If you are a single global teacher in a school the TEACHERPRENEUR subscription gives you access to our global community and to one project for one semester.

If you have 2-3 of classrooms (at any level or mixed levels, up to 50 students) who want to join (to one or more projects) the BRONZE subscription is best for you.

If you have a variety of student groups across levels and across projects, up to 100 students, the SILVER subscription gives you great flexibility to mix and match.

The GOLD subscription is for those schools who are really focused on global collaborative learning and building intercultural understanding and global competency into their whole school programs.

What about......

• If you have more than 200 students wanting to join projects?
• If you want to talk about a customised approach to global learning that offers a unique approach for your school and maybe even includes teacher professional learning?

Then...contact Julie and let's talk!

Connect with us at Flat Connections to discuss possibilities for you, your school and your students today!

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• Email Julie - julie@flatconnections.com to talk about how your school can embed online global collaborative learning into the curriculum.