I recently returned to New Zealand on the 2^nd of October after having been away for 77 days. In that time I travelled on 15 Flights, 44 trains, countless hours on buses and in cars visiting 13 Countries on 3 Continents and meeting  28 amazing educators educators and visited  18 learning institutions and schools and attended some face 2 face professional development. I kept in contact with my colleagues via Instagram, Twitter and email. I also kept a blog and an off line journal and took over 4,500 photos.

My presentation will focus on my TeachNZ13 Sabbatical, which allowed me to establish connections with educators around the world. Schools in Europe and then in Asia were visited and different learning environments observed. The educators who allowed access to their domain were educators who have had a history of sharing professional practice and some use Technology in Transformative Ways.

The Flat Classroom conference in Hawaii

The brand new Billunds School near Legoland in Denmark

School Design from an educator in Roskilde Denmark

Jyvaskula the Educational Centre of Finland

The Goldau School Project in Switzerland

The Hole in the Wall, the Granny Skype project and now the school in the cloud in Delhi, India

The Slideshare Headquarters in Delhi.

The Confucius Mandarin Language Programme in Shanghai, China

A nursery and an elementary school that are beginning to learn English in Osaka, Japan

The annual Google Apps for Education Summit in Seoul, Korea and a visit with a school running 1:1 iPads with Grades 3 & 4 children.

Take away from this session some ideas that could be used in your own schools, details for where you can read more about the different projects and make connections with the educators involved.

I look forward to you joining me virtually as I share my Face2face journey of my round the world experience.