In my case, I want to search for course related tweets, using the #cel263 tag. Step 2: Click Create New, to create and configure a new timeline widget. Step 1: When logged into, go to your settings page and select Widgets from the left menu bar. ![]() Since I was already working on my Blackboard course for the current year, I thought I'd give it a try. The old embed codes will no longer work from March 2013. ![]() So, I was really delighted to see that just last Friday, Twitter have announced a new way to embed timelines, making it easier to embed a public twitter stream into a webpage. A quick google search would bring up instructions, and allowed us to produce some nice results (see image). In the past, embedding a twitter feed was not straightforward, but was certainly possible. Since we also use Blackboard as our VLE, it's useful to bring the course twitter feed into the Blackboard course, to help link various strands together. Twitter is just one of the many tools we use as part of the module, both to support communication between participants, and for them to reflect on how they might make use of it in their own teaching practice. I have blogged, in the past, about the wonderful work carried out by participants on the module, and we have done some initial investigations into the longer term impact of the module. ![]() This week, I've been preparing for the start of our Learning Technologies module - offered to academic staff as part of our Higher Diploma in Academic Practice at NUI Galway.
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