Day 7 in Beijing, China

Today it snowed! Lots of white stuff we call snow, but slightly different than what we get in Iowa. Round very small pebbles of snow - made by the government? This is what is being said, I'll have to do some research into this possibility.

2nd day of the Flat Classroom Conference. We started the morning with the leaders presenting their ideas to the students and the students giving back constructive criticism.

Then the students went back to their work areas to finish up their storyboards and presentations. I again worked with groups 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15. It was very interesting to see the student bring their ideas to concrete explanations.

At noon each student group presented their ideas to the leaders and 9 other student groups.  Then another excellent lunch at BISS.  After lunch there was a conference photo in the snow! The winning student groups were announced: #1,  5,  9. 13,  15 & 19.

Those groups went with Frank and Bernajean to work on their movies and the other groups broke into two large teams to work on differnt projects.  one projects was to design the closing ceremonies of the Conference the other group went to work with Kim on Digital Kung Fu.

Week 2 & More to do!

We have been in contact with Julie Lindsay and hopefully she will join us this Tuesday evening for a few minutes.

Here are some things Julie has given us to look at:

Conference Tours - She is also getting a list of bus drivers if we want to plan our own tours.

Leaders 

Here is another site to look at: 

Instructional Design Graduate Students, Iowa

and now we need to fill this one in with information about you!  Yes, International fame and glory. You need to write something about what you are aiming to do at the Flat Classroom Conference. I will start a new page, Flat Classroom, on our wiki for people to start putting down ideas. (Julie wants to know if you want a picture here of the "Beijing Babes"?)
February 3, 2011 is the first day of the Chinese new year - Year of the Rabbit.
Read the book or watch the video your choice.
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman