I have a date at the fireside chat!
Oct 9th, 2007 by Cathy Nelson
Now that I have consumed the opening keynote for the K12Online Conference, I look forward to the evenings first LIVE event! Tonight at 7PM you can join David Warlick and many other educators from ALL OVER THE WORLD (I kid you not) in what is hailed as a “fireside chat,” aptly named b/c of the casting glow of the computer screen that warms your face. 
The chat is from 7-9PM, and is hosted by Elluminate. Visit the K12 Online Conference site for your portal into a virtual experience of a life time. I remember it well from last year, and to say it is surreal is an understatement. (Notice the glow on my face from the computer screen!)
No, folks, I won’t be fooling with it at all today. I do have a day job at Conway Middle School. I hope to be playing with video some today with a few kids, as well as promoting the SC Book Award Nominees. But tonight, instead of watching prime-time tv (that I can catch later in the reruns which will be here all to soon!) I’ll be online and with this group at the Fireside Chat.
Immediately following the fireside chat, I’ll virtually leave the “fire” to attend a live webcast of the weekly show “Women of Web 2.0” who are hosting none other than master digital storytelling guru David Jakes from Chicago and Edinburg, Scotalnd’s blogger guru Ewan McIntosh, who BOTH absolutely amazed me this summer at Alan November’s Building Learning Communities conference this summer.
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Cathy,
The Fireside Chat was quite an experience for me! Very difficult to listen to David while simultaneously following the chat on the sidebar.
I need a LOT more practice!
(Can really identify with students learning new skills – ‘tho they catch on so quickly it’s breathtaking).
Time to recover with a glass of wine.
Diane my typos in the chat are evidence that i’m not very good at it either!! But it was a blast once again tonight–and then bonus when it was extended in Will’s Weblogged-TV show, followed by WOW2. I am absolutely overflowing with information tonight that I must process. Psyched up so I’ll never get to sleep.