Thing 13: Creating a Globally Connected Classroom

I am playing catch-up, and so I didn't get to hear the "live" presentation of this (only the iPod downloaded version), but the presenter went so fast in the downloaded segment that it would take a superhuman to gather up all the information she was putting out there. I think that creating a globally connected classroom sounds like a fabulous idea, but from the idea stage to the implementation stage, it sounded like a tremendous amount of work, when really it's no different than what we do, as teachers, for any of our classes, especially if we're using technology.