{"id":2959,"date":"2011-02-07T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T15:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2011-02-07T08:49:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T15:49:23","slug":"best-bytes-sap-2-0-powerpoint-tools-using-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=2959","title":{"rendered":"Best Bytes: SAP 2.0 PowerPoint Tools Using Twitter !"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Submitted by Leslee Shell, Health Sciences Librarian, ASU at the Downtown Phoenix campus<\/em><\/p>\n

Want to make your PowerPoint presentations more dynamic and interactive?\u00a0 A few weeks ago I saw a demonstration of a tool that allows audience members, students, or session participants to post messages to an interactive slide during a PowerPoint presentation.\u00a0 It\u2019s SAP 2.0 PowerPoint Tools <\/strong><\/a>and it allows for clicker-like interactivity, but without the expense of clickers. So an instructor can pose a question and ask students in a lecture to respond on the screen.<\/p>\n

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I have tried it out.\u00a0 I cut-and-pasted the interactive slide from the link given\u00a0 above. The link includes slide templates that one can copy and paste into a PowerPoint<\/a>. It really works!\u00a0 Of course, students need a twitter account, and there\u2019s no guarantee what they might say on screen.<\/p>\n

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The key is instructing students to use a hashtag or keyword in every response.\u00a0 Then the presenter types in the same hashtag and the responses appear on the screen.\u00a0 Not sure what a hashtag is?
\nThe Twitter help center defines it this way:<\/p>\n

Hashtags: helping you find interesting Tweets<\/p>\n

* People use the hashtag symbol # before relevant keywords in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets to show more easily in Twitter Search.
\n* Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category.
\n* Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet.
\n* Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics.
\nBut we discovered that the # symbol wasn\u2019t necessary.\u00a0 You could just type a word, but pick an uncommon word, and have students include that word in their message.\u00a0 I tried PubMed, but there were lots of tweets on that topic, so you need to pick a unique or unusual word for students to incorporate in their tweet.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t used it in class yet, but I\u2019m working up my courage.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to hear from some of you who try it out.\u00a0 Let me know how it goes!<\/p>\n

Leslee.Shell@asu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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