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Your Name and Title: Eva Brown, Instructor/Developer

School, Library, or Organization Name: Red River College, Teacher Education, School of Learning Innovation

Co-Presenter Name(s): Carl Pfahl, Taryn Fenwick, Kate Hallett, Sheldon Hamp, Jennifer Kasprick, Dylan Power

Country from Which You Will Present: Canada

Language in Which You Will Present: English

Target Audience (such as primary school teachers, high school administrators, students, etc.): Secondary Teachers, Pre-service teachers, Teacher Education

Short Session Description (one line): Pre-service teachers experiencing global collaboration, one step at a time.

Full Session Description (one paragraph minimum):

Pre-Service teachers enrolled in an integrated business/technology teacher education program at Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada, are experiencing global education in a real way. They are working as the lead teachers in the Eracism project, one of the Flat Classroom Projects founded by Julie Lindsay and Vickie Davis. The pre-service teachers are gaining the experience of flattening classrooms and will take this invaluable education and experience into their classrooms to continue the move to global collaboration one step at a time, regardless of the curriculum topic. Their instructor, Eva Brown, is a Flat Classroom Certified teacher and a Microsoft Innovative teacher who believes that global collaboration must be a literacy in every curriculum. Pre-service teachers will share their experiences about their involvement in this project and the importance of global education as a literacy in all curriculum areas.

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:

http://eracism.flatclassroomproject.org/Home

http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/

http://www.rrc.ca/

http://me.rrc.mb.ca/Catalogue/ProgramInfo.aspx?RegionCode=WPG&ProgCode=BUSHF-DP