Attending the Flat Classroom Conference...Will You Help?

This semester my students and I have been priviliged to participate in the 2008 Flat Classroom Project created by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsey (my mentors, whether they realize it or not!). The project is based on Thomas Friedman's best selling book, The World is Flat.

Participating in the Project is incredible. My students are producing content on the Flat Classroom Wiki with students from around the globe. What they are creating is simply phenomonal to me. Tony Wagner would be proud of the type of "redefined rigor." ::smiles:: I never ceased to be amazed at what students can do whenever teachers get out of the way.

I digress...

The culmination of this year's Flat Classroom Project is the Flat Classroom Leadership Conference and Student Summit to be held in Doha, Qatar this coming January. I have been given permission by my School Board to attend the conference with 9 of my students involved in the project. We REALLY want to attend this conference! My students will come away from this experience enriched, engaged, and ready to succeed as they go off into college.

But...I trip like this costs big $$$. We are in the process of fundraising. I'm posting this out in the blogoshere looking for Angels who see the benefits and will help our students. My students and I have started a "Conference Blog." You can follow our Project progress on this blog...we've also posted a Sponsorship Brochure , which includes a Donation Form. All donations are tax deductable...

Will you help?

A Mobile 'Twitterventure'

This past summer I took the plunge and upgraded my mobile phone...I purchased a Blackberry Curve. I love this phone. I can manage both my work and home email accounts, store a plethora of contact information, browse Facebook... ... ... the list goes on... ... ...

What I want is a Twitter application for my Blackberry. You'd think this would be a simple request, right? I know that I can pull up Twitter via my mobile browser, but, well, I'm spoiled. I want an application, darn it!

The Twitter Fan Wiki has a page devoted to Mobile Apps. There's a laundry list there of mobile apps. So far I've tried Quakk, Twitter2Go, Shozu (boy that was a disaster), and Blackbird. The only one that works at all (on my phone) is Blackbird. It's a nice interface, but it doesn't show me updates automatically. With Facebook, I get notices when there are updates, but not with the Blackbird. I guess I shouldn't complain, maybe there isn't a mobile application out there to do what I want it to do.

Ummm...if you know of one, would you let me know? Thanks!