{"id":2256,"date":"2013-03-22T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2013-03-22T15:18:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:18:30","slug":"twitter-based-voting-in-powerpoint-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/03\/22\/twitter-based-voting-in-powerpoint-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter-based voting in Powerpoint: update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been using the SAP Twitter tools for Powerpoint, about which <a title=\"Twitter and Powerpoint\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=2037\" target=\"_blank\">I blogged back in the autumn<\/a>, you&#8217;ll be disappointed to here that because of a change to the Twitter service itself, they will soon stop working correctly, according to a <a title=\"Timo Elliott websie\" href=\"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/powerpoint-twitter-tools\" target=\"_blank\">newsflash on Timo Elliott&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are some alternatives you might like to consider. Of course, if you&#8217;re using the the tools together with Twitter as a way of getting students to &#8216;vote&#8217; \/ answer questions in the classroom, you could use the <a title=\"Turning Point\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?page_id=1261\" target=\"_blank\">Turning Point <\/a>dedicated voting system instead.<\/p>\n<p>Or if you were using Twitter to get informal, unstructured feedback from students, you could use a Twitter &#8216;visualisation&#8217; service such as <a title=\"Twitterfontana\" href=\"http:\/\/twitterfontana.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitterfontana<\/a>. Here&#8217;s how <a title=\"Sarah Mills using Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=2128\" target=\"_blank\">one Loughborough colleague has been using Twitterfontana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been using the SAP Twitter tools for Powerpoint, about which I blogged back in the autumn, you&#8217;ll be disappointed to here that because of a change to the Twitter service itself, they will soon stop working correctly, according to a newsflash on Timo Elliott&#8217;s website. There are some alternatives you might like to<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/03\/22\/twitter-based-voting-in-powerpoint-update\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27,116,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-twitter","category-web2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}