My Twitter Connection Assignment (school related).
So I had this one project for my Digital Citizenship class, that links with my genius hour project.
Post on what genius hour is: click this
It was a 3 part project, so let me summarize it.
The first part involved finding the people that we would talk to, they would be our connections for the rest of the project, so we had to choose wisely. My second project, as I might have mentioned in a previous post, was about making a game that consists of shooting microbes with a spaceship inside of a human body, so as to clean said human from the disease (game still in concept phase).
Anyways, we had to follow at least 10 people, and here are the twitter usernames of the 11 people I followed:
Took a while, but I found all these people and decided that they would be able to help me in my research. All of them are either people specialized in coding (game creators, companies teaching coding etc…) or specialized in medical science (epidemiologists’s, health leaders, etc…). We then had to create a list (the list I made), and add the people we had subscribed to into it.
Quite simple right? Well we also had to introduce ourselves with a mention tweet pretty much to say that you aren’t a bot. Out of 11, 3 responded, which is fine, as to them it would be like I, a complete stranger, came up to their face, said hello, and started talking.
So for the second part of our project we just had to ask our “connections” some questions. They had to be questions related to our project, I asked the coders about unity3d and if I should use it, as well as if they knew about good learning sites for coding. As for the medical scientists, I asked about diseases, such as the most common or deadly ones. This was all so that it would be easier for me to choose and make the levels for my video game. It took some time to make all those questions because of twitter’s limit on characters per tweet. If they responded (which few did) we had to favorite the tweet and respond with a thank you, overall, not the hardest part in the assignment.
A picture on something related medical science, link.
The last part is actually what I am doing right now, a reflection post on the assignment, not supposed to talk about it though. I have to think back on everything and see what went well and wrong, so here it is:
After all the hard work I got decent results, most of the people I followed did not respond to either my question or my hello tweet, but the few that did were quite helpful and nice. No one followed me back, and I’d say that apart from @mindful_coder, who responded to one of my tweets asking for coding sites, no one provided more assistance than I asked for. I do have to say I just left it at that, didn’t really talk back to them, mostly because I am not comfortable with online relationships and want to at least hear their voice before becoming friends with them. And finally, how this might help me in the future, well really, it will help a bit, as now I will know how to get help from professionals on twitter, but I usually use information from sites and books, as it is much easier to use than to talk to a person. So I guess this will help me in he future, but not that much.
Well, that does it, long and messy post, but you have made it to the end, good job and thanks for reading. 🙂