A “Twitter Party” About Virtual Education—Join for a Chance to Win an iPhone 4!

August 9 2010 by Jake Frodsham in School Section |No Comments

Virtual education is growing at an incredible rate of 30% annually in this country, and this Thursday from 9PM to 10PM (ET) K¹² will participate in a “Twitter Party” to discuss this rising trend. What’s a Twitter party? It’s a fast and fun virtual gathering of folks on the Twitter platform to talk about a particular subject with a panel of experts and a “host”. And an iPhone 4 will be given away to a couple of lucky participants who correctly answer questions asked during the party! (Winners are responsible for the iPhone’s service agreement.)

For Thursday’s Twitter party, our topic will be “The Rising Trend in Virtual Learning: Good or Bad?” and our host will be @ResourcefulMom, Amy Lupold Bair. Amy is the founder of Resourceful Mommy Media, a well-known mom blogger, successful media consultant and former English teacher who helps organize and host social media events to educate parents about various subjects. You can RSVP here to check out who else is joining on Thursday.

Joining Amy, our panel of experts on this subject will include:

Kimber Podsedek, High School Advisor, K¹²’s Colorado Virtual Academy

Kayleen Marble, Lead Master Teacher, K¹²’s Arizona Virtual Academy

Lori Beverage, Manager, K¹² National Online Family Support

Tom DiGiovanni, Sr. Director, K¹² Product Planning and Design

Kimberly Wynns, Parent of two K¹² virtual learners since 2002 and Special Education teacher

So, how does a Twitter party work? It’s very simple—and fun! Participate in the discussion by following @K¹²Learn and @ResourcefulMom with your Twitter account. Using whatever Twitter application you prefer (I like Tweetdeck) you simply follow the hashtag for the event—in our case it’s “#K¹²Learning”—and tweet your questions about virtual education, follow along in the conversation and, hopefully, “retweet” interesting bits of information to your network of followers. For a live stream of the conversation, you can follow along on sites like What the Hashtag?

We ask that you direct your questions to @k12learn or @resourcefulmom, who will be moderating all the questions, and remember to use the hashtag #K¹²Learning in your tweets so that we can find you!

If you can’t join our Twitter party on Thursday, but have some burning questions you’d like our panelists to discuss, please post the question as a comment below and we’ll try to get to it during the party.

This will be our first foray into this particular discussion format, and we’re really looking forward to discussing this cutting-edge trend in education using this cutting-edge communication platform!

We hope you can join us! (Tell your friends!)

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