It really is so much fun for the Sounding Board students too – every year they are so amazed at the scope of the project and how the participating students are able to collaborate across distance and time to produce such amazing work. So glad to be a part!

Just wonderful work that you do- you add so much to this process. We’re continuing to put the call out on all of our networks to find elementary classrooms. Interestingly each time there is a “new” project sometimes people don’t know about it. It has often helped to call it a “flat classroom project’ and then people go – “OH, OK.”

It is interesting to see the people that are early adopters who will jump on such a thing and others who hang back because they’ve never heard of “netgen” — well, I’d never heard of it 3 months a go and you hadn’t either and here we are, again.

And yes, with Don Tapscott involved it is very very special.

No worries about missing the planning meeting. The main focus of what we will do is go over questions and answers (I can help you via e-mail) and then sign up for which NetGenEd Student groups each class will peer review.

If you could take a look at the Sounding Board page, add yourself to the table, and then check the SB Feedback page to see which groups your class would like to peer review (and then add your name next to those groups) we’ll be all set.

Let me know if you have any questions

Yes! You can definitely have mixed age/grade groups! In fact that was one thing that the fifth graders really wanted to do the next time around.

You will have a time frame of at least 2 weeks to complete the Sounding Board process (will probably take you around 4 hours total), but I would recommend working with the same group of students the whole time. I use flex scheduling to organize two 1.5. hour sessions and then do a final 45 min session as a wrap-up after they’ve done the project.

Please feel free to join the wiki and add your name to the project if you’re interested

Thanks!