1.  What is your story of global collaboration? As a teacher? As a student?

2.     How important is it to have a global collaborative experience before leaving high school?

3.     In the school of the future, do you think ALL school levels (K-12) should have a global collaborative experience? Why?

4.   What are the advantages for later in life of being globally minded and understanding the world through connections with others?

1.       My story of global collaboration as a student is brief. This class is the only time that I’ve ever communicated globally. Well, I have talked to one of my friends that live in New Jersey when he was traveling the world if that counts. Otherwise if got a few Facebook friends that live around the country. When I first started to communicate globally, I thought it was cool, but then my shyness kicked in and I didn’t want to talk to people I didn’t know.

2.       It’s important to know about how to communicate globally before you go off to college because when you get there and have to start communicating with people around the world to complete a project, it becomes difficult because you don’t know what to do. I definitely think that this class has helped me a little; I still believe I have a lot to grow in communicating globally, but this was my first step to something greater.

3.       I strongly believe that the younger generation should start learning how to communicate globally, so that way it helps with their socializing skills in the future. Plus, it helps get them into the technology world at a younger age, but not as fast as a smartphone or tablet. I believe that global collaboration experience will help anyone learn to communicate globally in a smart manor.

4.       I don’t really understand the 4^th question so I’ll try and talk about it as best as I can. I think that being globally minded helps you remember that people in different parts of the world might have a different opinion then what you initially think or that people in a different country might want to make slight changes to possibly make it better. That would then help you gauge as to what the people in that country want, instead of what you want.

Flat Classroom

2 Paragraphs on your reactions/reflections to the content. What did you learn? What surprised you? What did you agree/disagree with?

Through out the World is Flat project I have learned a lot.  Starting with the imported goods map we did. I learned that we, the USA, rely on importing foreign goods to survive. From there we learned in Digital Communications the 10 flatteners; Collapse of the Berlin Wall, Netscape, Workflow Software, Uploading, Outsourcing, Offshoring, Supply-chaining, Insourcing, Informing, and “The Steroids.” These 10 flatteners helped me understand Thomas Friedman’s case on the world is flat, which is that we are creating value horizontally, which I had never heard of. I can’t say that I agree or disagree with creating value horizontally because I don’t understand how value was created horizontally.

I’ve learned a lot through the World is Flat project. One of the things I’ve learned is the 3 Globalizations, Globalization 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. Each Globalization shrank the world 1 size smaller. Which I agree with because of the things that have been created has shrunk with each upgrade. Another thing I learned is that Netscape started is all on August 8^th, 1995. Netscape had started the “.com” world. The third thing I learned is that the Internet has changed our lives more then a politician. Which I think is completely true.

1 Paragraph about how you are feeling about the Flat Classroom Project: concerns, worries, questions, what are you excited about etc.

                I have a few concerns about the Flat Classroom Project. The main concern is that I won’t remember any of this by the time I graduate from college. I feel that this will lead to something important in the future, but in the mean time, I think this isn’t important. I still enjoy the class, but I’m getting a little bored talking about the same stuff over and over again.

Digital Citizenship

Digital citizenship is one of the few words that people hear about in the world. Well, in my eyes, I think digital citizenship means to be smart, responsible, and thoughtful with what you are saying to your digital media community. Because you never know what will happen if someone takes something you said wrong.
I think they should be more respectful to other students and not criticize anyone or anything. Secondly, I think they should have the freedom to say whatever they want, as long as it won’t offend anybody or anything. Also, students shouldn’t post any inappropriate or harmful pictures or videos that could potentially ruin someone’s reputation. Lastly, students should think about what people consider them to be, because that might change how people act around you.
My personal online profile on Facebook and Twitter are pretty clean. I might on occasion say something that someone doesn’t like, mostly my parents. My parents keep a close eye on everything I write on Facebook and or Twitter because they don’t want anything I say to come back and haunt me. My friends on the other hand, well they swear everywhere, they pick fights with other friends, and they say hurtful stuff to people.Collapse this post

Hey, I'm a 16 year old junior at Valley High School in West Des Moines. I'm one of the few bowlers that Valley has. I've been bowling since I was 1 and now I bowled the first 300 game in Valley history, and I also hold the highest 2 game series, 515, in Valley history. I currently have bowled three 300 games and two 800 series'. My most recent 300 game and 800 series were yesterday in Waterloo at Cadillac Lanes. Bowling is one of the sports I will be doing for the rest of my life.

This blog that I am creating is for my high school class, digital communication tools. In that class we do many things, mainly relating to Twitter. Whatever we do, whether it’s on Twitter, Evernote, Blogger, or anything else related to digital media, we have to tweet it. This class has defiantly increased the amount of digital media that I use. I mainly watch TV, listen to Pandora, Facebook and text. I’ve recently tried to decrease the amount of digital media that I use, so I could go to a bowling center and practice more.

What is your favorite sport? And what do you like most about blogging?