{"id":428,"date":"2017-01-21T19:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T19:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2017-01-21T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T19:13:51","slug":"twitter4canvas-v-canvas-twitter-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/twitter4canvas\/twitter4canvas-v-canvas-twitter-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter4Canvas v. Canvas Twitter App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Friday) Michelle Pacansky-Brock at CSU-CI tried out my iframe solution for embedding Twitter in her Canvas course and it worked! That was really encouraging for me to see.<\/p>\n<p>Before going further with this project, I also tested to see if the Canvas Twitter App was still not displaying media&#8230; and yes, that appears to be the case. So, if you are wondering why it is worth going to the trouble to embed a real Twitter widget as opposed to the Canvas app, <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ou.edu\/courses\/56095\/pages\/canvas-twitter-app\"><strong>visit the comparison page<\/strong><\/a>. Here&#8217;s a screenshot which shows the difference: Twitter is better with images! Canvas Twitter app is on the left; Twitter widget is on the right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-21-at-2.11.22-PM-e1485025941203.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-429\" src=\"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-21-at-2.11.22-PM-e1485025941203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, next week I hope to make substantial progress on this, spelling out the step by step process I follow to create a Twitter widget and then the iframe for embedding in Canvas. The week after that, I&#8217;ll write up some basic information on the value of using Twitter for class content and communication.<\/p>\n<p>And then this will be ready to go! Whoo-hoo! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Crossposted at <a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/groups\/university-of-oklahoma\/activity\">OU Canvas Community.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Friday) Michelle Pacansky-Brock at CSU-CI tried out my iframe solution for embedding Twitter in her Canvas course and it worked! That was really encouraging for me to see. Before going further with this project, I also tested to see if the Canvas Twitter App was still not displaying media&#8230; and yes, that appears to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/twitter4canvas\/twitter4canvas-v-canvas-twitter-app\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter4Canvas v. Canvas Twitter App<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter4canvas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}