Vicki Davis is a teacher and the IT director at Westwood Schoolsin Camilla, Georgia. Vicki co-created five award winning international wiki-centric projects, the Flat Classroom® Project, the NetGenEd™ Project, previously known as the Horizon project, and Digiteen™,  Eracism Project™, and A Week in the Life Elementary Flat Classroom® Project with teacher Julie Lindsay, currently in Bejing, China.  Vicki is also a cofounder of the Flat Classroom Conference,  a bi-annual gathering.

These projects have linked more than ten thousand students in both public and private schools from nineteen countries. These collaborative projects harness the most powerful technology tools available while operating on a minimal budget. Vicki has been featured in various media including Thomas Friedman’s book, The World is Flat, Don Tapscott’s Grown Up Digital, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Boston Globe.

Vicki blogs at the Cool Cat Teacher blog which won the 2008 Edublog Award for Best Teacher Blog and was named 2nd runner up in 2009 for Edublogs Best Teacher Blog Award. She was named a pioneer in Open Source Virtual World Technologyin October 2009. Vicki is a Google Certified Teacher and Discovery S.T.A.R. Educator. She lives in Camilla, Georgia with her husband and three children.

Monday Keynote Talk

21st Century Influencer

Influencing technological change requires not only an understanding of technology and global collaboration but an understanding that the only person you can influence is YOURSELF. This presentation covers motivational principles and how to flatten your classroom by incorporating global curriculum and connectedness into your curriculum.
Vicki will also present two breakout sessions on Monday.
Thank to Street & Co for their support of Vicki’s appearance at VSTE2013.