A Professor and IT Director, Vicki Davis, is a teacher in South Georgia. She teaches her students every type of technology so they can connect to the world with research and communication. Davis likes the CoolCatBlog, where over 6000 readers come together to learn. The CoolCatBlog won the edgy blog award for best teacher blog last year. She loves having computers and all types technology in her classroom rather than the standard pencil and paper work. She allows her students to form groups and teach the class. This helps the students to become empowered and more aware of the classroom. Davis motivates her students by using new software and new vocabulary so they can learn to look it themselves. Davis and Julie Lindsey created a global collaborative project called, Digi Team. This lets students around the world study digital citizenship by researching, writing, and blogging on two different portals. Digi Team post blogs on assigned topics, which lets students and teachers share and blog about their ideas. Davis and Julie also created the Flat Classroom Project. This helps students learn about trans technology by writing reports and posting blogs to other students around the world. In January 2009, Davis was able to take some students to the Middle East for the Flat Classroom Conference.
I admire everything Davis and Julie are doing for students and classrooms. The new software is an amazing opportunity for students to learn how to communicate and share with students around the world. This type of communication will bring the world together in many different ways. I feel this is an amazing opportunity for myself and other students to learn various languages and to speak better and more proper English. This gives me a chance to enhance my vocabulary and learn new software that I may encounter in the future at work or in a classroom setting. If these programs and new software are available for our students, this will open a whole new world to new jobs and higher learning.
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