Origins

**The World's //First// Global Education Twitter Chats**
The #globalclassroom hashtag was devised by Deb Frazier (@frazierde) as a medium for teacher communications in the first Global Classroom Project, which ran in early 2011. The monthly #globalclassroom chats were later created by the project co-founder, Michael Graffin (@mgraffin), as an offshoot of Global Classroom: 2011-12.

Our inaugural chats ran in November 2011, and generated significant excitement in the international global education community,. Since then, we have expanded our time-zone coverage (with the addition of a Europe / Australasia chat), and run chats on topics suggested by educators in the #globaled community. Born out of our efforts to "enable teachers and students to connect, share, learn, and collaborate globally", these chats are beginning to take on a life of their own.

Our chats run monthly, on three different days and times (see our schedule). They begin on the second Saturday / Sunday of the month, with the topic posted a week before on The Global Classroom Project blog. As these chats are very much an international affair, we are keen to involve as many globally connected educators as we can - through suggesting topics, and helping with chat moderation and / or chat organisation. If you're interested in helping out, we're keen to talk to you!