{"id":579,"date":"2017-02-15T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2017-02-18T22:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T22:43:28","slug":"canvaslive-planning-twitter4canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/twitter4canvas\/canvaslive-planning-twitter4canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"CanvasLIVE: Planning Twitter4Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so like with Growth Mindset Cats post<\/strong><\/a> yesterday, \u00a0this is going to be a brain dump of how I might do a 15-minute presentation on Twitter4Canvas, which seems the other likely candidate for a way to get started with CanvasLIVE.\u00a0Like yesterday, I’ll start with some “why” examples in terms of teaching and learning, and them zoom in on the technical stuff.<\/p>\n

Update<\/em>.\u00a0Okay… I am excited about BOTH of these options, but after writing up this post, it’s clear that Twitter4Canvas one is closer to being ready to go; almost everything is already in place, so my guess is that it will be better to do this one first, and then do the Growth Mindset Cats a couple of weeks later after I’ve had a chance to finish documenting those materials more fully. I will see what Stefanie thinks about that! Also, this one provides a kind of lead-in to the idea of dynamic content in Canvas, but it starts with something more familiar: Twitter. I think if people experiment with this first, then some of the strategies in the Growth Mindset cats (other kinds of embedding) will make more sense.<\/p>\n

Update again.<\/em> I’ve been able to radically streamline my Twitter4Canvas Workshop thanks to the Canvas Files trick I learned at Canvas Community, and I have modified this presentation accordingly!<\/p>\n

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Some kind of quick 1-minute introduction<\/strong> followed by:<\/p>\n

TWITTER FOR TEACHING<\/strong> (total of 4 minutes): My focus is not on students using Twitter (although that is a great opportunity also), but instead Twitter was a way to deliver fresh, new, real stimulating content to students, especially images and video.<\/p>\n

My Class\u00a0Twitter stream<\/strong> (1 minute). I’ll talk about the sources I draw on to create the @OnlineMythIndia<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Twitter stream for my classes, and I’ve written a post about Twitter curation: Twitter for Class Content: My Top 5 Strategies<\/strong><\/a>. My students see it embedded in my class\u00a0announcements<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And it can run in other webspaces too, like \u00a0at our class wiki<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Other Account streams<\/strong> (1 minute). I’ll show some of the other account streams I’ve widgetized, like our student newspaper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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and our Library Twitter account<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hashtag streams<\/strong> (1 minute): There is an international weekly chat by folklorists at the #FolkloreThursday hashtag<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n


\nAnd there are also occasional hashtags, like the beautiful #ColorOurCollections<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Sample Twitter-based assignment<\/strong> (1 minute): Wikipedia Trails (1 minute). One of my favorite ways to use our class Twitter is as the starting point for a Wikipedia Trails assignment<\/strong><\/a>. (I should mock this up as a Canvas page; right now it is just a page at my class wiki, and the student blog stream<\/strong><\/a> is also just at the wiki, but I can also mock that up as a Canvas page):<\/p>\n

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Some kind of quick 1-minute transition<\/strong> into next section:<\/p>\n

TECHNOLOGY<\/strong> (total of 8 minutes).<\/p>\n

Canvas Twitter App versus Real Twitter Widgets<\/strong> (1 minute). It’s all about the media. The Canvas Twitter App<\/strong><\/a> displays no media; for me, that makes it a complete nonstarter.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Different Kinds of Twitter Widgets<\/strong> (1 minute). Another difference from the Canvas Twitter App is that Twitter offers a lot of different kinds of widgets, not all of which are supported by the Canvas Twitter App, such as List. Here’s a simple List example: our two university museums<\/strong><\/a>, combined in a single list:<\/p>\n

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Twitter4Canvas Workshop<\/strong>\u00a0(1 minute). I’ve created a self-guided Twitter4Canvas Workshop<\/strong><\/a> which has everything you need to get up and running with Twitter (even if you have never used it before), and to then create a Twitter widget for your account and include it in your Canvas course. The key steps are Creating a Widget, inserting it into a File, and then inserting that File into a Page.<\/p>\n

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Generate Twitter Widget<\/strong>\u00a0(1 minute). After you are up and running with Twitter, you can use the Twitter Widget generator<\/strong><\/a> to get the Twitter Widget code you need; it just takes a few seconds.<\/p>\n

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Insert Twitter in Canvas File<\/strong>\u00a0(1 minute). For the next step, you’ll insert the Twitter Widget you created into a Canvas File<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Insert File into Canvas Page<\/b> (1 minute). Then, you insert the Cavnas File into your Page<\/strong><\/a>; for security reasons, you cannot just paste the Widget directly into your Page, but routing it through the File system takes care of Cavnas’s security concerns:<\/p>\n

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Canvas Tables<\/strong>\u00a0(1 minute). Tables can be useful for layout<\/strong><\/a>. You might consider putting the Twitter Widget in the right column of a table, and then using the left column to explain what the Twitter stream contains, how to use it for a class assignment, etc.<\/p>\n

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Ready-to-Use Twitter Widgets<\/strong>\u00a0(1 minute). One of the other powerful things about Twitter Widgets is that you can share them with others. So, I’ve been making “ready-to-use” Twitter Widgets<\/strong><\/a> to share with people at my school. They don’t even have to use Twitter: just copy-and-paste the code snippet, and they can put Twitter into their Canvas Pages directly. So, for example, our student newspaper, as I mentioned earlier:<\/p>\n

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Quick 1-minute conclusion<\/strong> to review and point to Slidedeck online plus single page with all the links mentioned here.<\/p>\n

Crossposted at OU Canvas Community<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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