User:Coolcatteacher

Vicki Davis is a teacher and the IT director at Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia. Vicki co-created many award winning international wiki-centric projects, the Flat Classroom® Project, the NetGenEd™ Project, the Digiteen™, Eracism Project™, and A Week in the Life Elementary Flat Classroom® Project and a new K-2 pilot project with teacher Julie Lindsay, currently in Bejing, China. Vicki is also a cofounder of the Flat Classroom Conference, a 501(c)3 nonprofit which has held conferences in Qatar, China, India, and others to be announced.

Vicki is co-author of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds from Pearson Publishing and is working on her second book, Collaborative Writing in the Cloud from Eye on Education. She has keynoted at more than 20 state, teacher, and librarian conferences over the past five years but keeps her focus in her classroom.

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 Technology in October 2009. Vicki is a Google Certified Teacher, a Discovery S.T.A.R. Educator, an Adobe Education Leader, and has served as a judge for the Microsoft Partner's in Learning Program. She lives in Camilla, Georgia with her husband and three children.