Student Summit

     Hi, my name is Anna and my flattener was Connecting the World Online. During the project I collaborated with students from different schools and different countries. Together we were able to effectively communicate and share information through online tools such as Flatclassroom. From the flatclassroom project I learned how to communicate appropriately through creating online videos, presentations, blogs and attending online meetings.
     In my research I discovered that today's society is collaborating more online than ever before. Web tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Tumblr make communicating easier and faster. They allow mass information to be seen by hundreds of people at once. They allow users to talk and share information across the globe, give immediate feedback and create something new.
     I have learned that with all this access to information that I have to be extremely careful about what I say and do online. Once it's out there, I can't take it back. I have learned about new web tools like Prezi, Tagxedo, Faceyourmanga, Evernote and Blogger.
     The aspect that I enjoyed the most from Flatclassroom was meeting and collaborating with new people. I enjoyed being able to bounce my ideas off others, hear a different side of the problem and work as a team to accomplish the assignment. There were some challenges though. Not every member was online at the same time so it made hard to communicate at first.
     To make this project better I would suggest that everyone works hard to be on the same part of the project. What I mean is that some classrooms were behind while others were ahead, which made it difficult to communicate at times. To make the project more meaningful, I would have liked to make more of a connection with the other students. We only got a brief snippet of each others lives and it made it hard to let total strangers do some work that counts for my grade.