{"id":352,"date":"2017-10-24T09:19:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T15:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/?p=352"},"modified":"2020-01-22T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:41:20","slug":"hosting-an-unattended-educational-twitter-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/hosting-an-unattended-educational-twitter-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosting an Unattended Educational Twitter Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have attended several educational Twitter Chats in the past.\u00a0 I decided to host my own.\u00a0 My schedule is so unpredictable at the moment that I am not sure that I will be available online when I want the Twitter Chat to occur.\u00a0 So, I am planning an “unattended” Educational Twitter Chat. Hopefully, I will be there to participate, but this allows me to do this without a moderator.\u00a0 Here is the process:<\/p>\n

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  1. Set up Slides for the Chat.\u00a0 Get the template here<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Use the template and modify it with your Twitter Chat information.<\/li>\n
  3. You can download each slide individually as a .jpg or .png (save this in a folder on your computer for ease of access when you want to start your Twitter Chat).\u00a0 If you have access to PowerPoint, download to a PowerPoint.\u00a0 Open up the Twitter Chat in PowerPoint, then select File\/Save As — indicate .png or .jpg.\u00a0 It will then ask you if you want to save one or all of the slides — Select All.\u00a0 It will place all of your slides as individual pictures in a folder.<\/li>\n
  4. Schedule your Twitter Chat.\u00a0 Using Tweetdeck<\/a>. (formerly, I used Twittimer<\/a> – free account allows you to do 10 scheduled posts) schedule to send out your tweets of your Twitter Chat Slides:\u00a0 The following is a suggested time schedule:\n
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    • 1 week before chat — send out announcement<\/li>\n
    • 3 days before the chat — send out reminder<\/li>\n
    • 1 hour before the chat — send out the hour reminder<\/li>\n
    • time chat is to begin — send out welcome followed immediately by introductions<\/li>\n
    • After 5 minutes (determine this on how many people you think will attend), send out 1st question<\/li>\n
    • Schedule to send out the rest of questions at regular intervals 10 minutes or less apart (again, based upon how many people you think might answer).<\/li>\n
    • Send out final thank you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • Don’t forget to check back to see if anyone has replied late or after the live chat was done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      These steps allow you to concentrate on the chat itself if you are not fortunate enough to have a moderator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I have attended several educational Twitter Chats in the past.\u00a0 I decided to host my own.\u00a0 My schedule is so unpredictable at the moment that I am not sure that I will be available online when I want the Twitter Chat to occur.\u00a0 So, I am planning an “unattended” Educational Twitter Chat. Hopefully, I will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,16],"tags":[85,74,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}