Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Making a presentation to teach the class about Twitter by solely using Twitter was a task to say the least. Not that creating tweets is difficult, but being able to post them in a way that was organized and had all the information took more time. In our presentation, I think it was helpful that we each made separate Twitter accounts rather than trying to put all of the information onto one timeline. Because Twitter does not allow you to make edits, it would have been a tedious task to make sure 100+ tweets were in the correct order and were error free. It was also beneficial for us to pull up other links and hashtags in a separate browser or use links that took us to a separate browser so that we did not lose our place. Things that did not work so well were using threads to make our tweets and not posting on the timeline so that the last tweet was the beginning of our presentation. Though it did not cause problems in the actual presentation part, it took some time to figure out what order the tweets were in, and this likely made it close to impossible for someone to follow along. I think this was solely on our part, and if we were to do it again, I would suggest that we each make a timeline with individual tweets that start at the top of the account and work our way down rather than using threads. Finding information that we wanted to add in after the initial creation also did not happen because it would have required us to delete everything and start from that point, which was not option. Ensuring that all the information is there before starting also could have been easily fixed by us, as well. I do not think Twitter hindered our usage of it to teach, and it was actually beneficial for us because Twitter is rather simplistic in its usage. Overall, I think the presentation went well, but it was a learning curve and these improvements definitely would have enhanced its quality.

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