Keynote Response

Why do you think this Keynote is called "Big Little Classrooms"?
I think it's called "Big Little Classrooms" because everyone participating in the Flat Classroom Project is basically one class. We're just divided up into our classes at our schools, thus we're little parts of a big online classroom.

Technologies used by Australian school/techniques used to contact others:
Skype was a major one. The teacher of the class in Australia seemed to skype a lot of people, from the Middle East, United States, Asia, ect. she had a lot of speakers talking to her class using skype.
I'm not sure how she managed to get into contact with these people outside of the FlatClassRoomProject, but I would have to infer that she knows people with connections -or- she contacted article writers or big names in the industry they were researaching in order to get the meet with them.

"Some of the best learning takes place in a virtual classroom where there can be live links" - thoughts
To me this basically means almost all the resources you need are online, and can be linked to quickly, rather than having to pull a book off a shelf and skim through it to get the answer you want.