Vicki Davis

Bio

Vicki Davis is a teacher and the IT director at Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia. Vicki co-created four award winning international wiki-centric projects, the Flat Classroom project, the Horizon project, NetGenEd (with Don Tapscott,) and Digiteen with teacher Julie Lindsay, currently at Qatar Academy. These projects have linked more than 1500 students from both public and private schools in such countries as Austria, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Japan, Spain, Qatar and the US. These collaborative projects harness the most powerful Web 2.0 tools available including wikis, blogs, digital storytelling, podcasts, social bookmarking, and more. Vicki is a cofounder of the Women of Web 2 and has been featured in various media including Thomas Friedman's bobestteacher08.pngok, The World is Flat, Don Tapscott's Book, Grown Up Digital, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe. See http://coolcatteacher.wikispaces.com/About+Me for her full bio.