Twitter Feeds + Tutorial Videos = Tech Webpage
There are a couple of things I wanted to achieve with this final project, things that I’ve had on my list for a while.
The first is now that I’ve started using Twitter and I see all of these great articles that I want to share with my colleagues, how can I take certain tweets and post them in individual subject areas so that they can follow, and retreive them later?
The second item on my list is to create tutorial videos of the Tech Ten and Lunch & Learn sessions that my library partner and I do monthly. The best way to make both of these happen is to create a website to store all of this.
I’m still working on a catchy name for it (suggestions welcome!):
The Tech Drawer
IDtenT Proof (though that’s probably not very nice)
ICYMI (not very original, I know… and I’ll have to explain it, but that’s not to bad)
Clever names aside, I’ve already surveyed the staff at the last staff meeting, and they’re interested in the idea. That’s a good start. Now where to begin? Fortunately, we have a great TL association, and at our last meeting (yesterday, so handy!) I probed the group brain and came up with a few suggestions for how do deal with the Twitter feeds.
One suggestion was to use Tweetdeck. I’ve checked out a couple of tutorial videos on YouTube, “How to Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts with Tweetdeck” which was pretty handy for helping me to figure out what the heck I might want to do with Tweetdeck, and “Create Twitter Collections” which had some really great specifics on what I might want to use collections for, how to build them and then how to embed them in a website – ultimately what I’m looking for. Another great resource they recommended is a local teacher who has great Twitter accounts: Jeremy Reid @jReidEdu. Nice to have someone to hopefully work with one-on-one.
For the tutorial videos I’ve used Screencastify before and it works well for me. The only problem is really just making the time, and making sure it’s quite. Hmmm… Friday after school sounds about right! Also a good time for setting a scary film in a school.
As for the look of the fancy tech website… um…
Hopefully I’ll have a better idea of what the layout and design of it should be for next week. Thinking that simple is good, cluttered is bad. Beyond that?
Works Cited
McMaster, Wade. “How to Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts with Tweetdeck.” YouTube.com, https://youtu.be/QEtvwgCO8yw
Maskan & Vero. “Create Twitter Collections.” YouTube.com, https://youtu.be/CILW_uxaBzQ
Thanks for sharing the idea about Tweetdeck. I had no idea. It’s good to hear that your staff will be receptive to a website. My staff is feeling a little overwhelmed and doesn’t want, yet another, website to go to. Hmmm
I’m planning to link it to our existing website so even though it is a different site, it will feel like one to them. In the end I will probably merge them because I understand that a website runs more efficiently if you’re calling to pages from within it and not outside of it.
A good planning post for your final vision. This was a good overview of your most important learning in this course and what you hope to support your colleagues and community with after this diploma is over. Good idea to canvas your T-L colleagues for advice and suggestions and I would also add that you can “embed” tweets into a webpage, you can also create share-able twitter lists, like I did for our class to easily follow a bunch of recommended accounts, and you could also make some quick screencast videos to embed on your site as well. Overall, a great start to your final vision.
Thanks for the info about compiling Twitter stuff. I still have not been investigating Twitter as much as I would like (drowning in my marking as per usual) but that is something I was thinking about (and getting overwhelmed about) when I did imagine diving in more-how to organize! So, I appreciate the links.
I hope they help. Honestly, I’ve been using Twitter to replace my local paper and supplement my news. From there I was finding things I waned to share with colleagues- I subscribe to Nat Geo and BBC World, so there are some interesting things. I didn’t pay my first tweet until a year after i started using it (so basically 5 months ago was my first tweet). My advice is start small!