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Last updated 9/28/2011
When a new question or a reply is tweeted, a second Twitter icon appears on the slide. This icon disappears as soon as
all the tweets are viewed.
Note: The second Twitter icon differs from the first one in the color of its wing. In the first icon, the wing of the bird is blue
while in the second the color is yellow.
All the viewed tweets are added to the conversation lists on the slide.
The following steps outline the collaboration workflow between an author, Casey, and elearners, Alex and Jaden:
1 Casey creates and publishes an elearning course with a Twitter widget.
2 Alex starts viewing the course and right-clicks on a table on Slide 10 (frame 2), and asks a question.
3 Jaden is also viewing the course at the same time.
• If Jaden too is on Slide 10, frame 2 or has already viewed the slide, an additional Twitter icon appears on Jaden's
machine. Jaden can click the icon to view the question and click reply to provide an answer. As soon as Jaden
views the question, the additional icon disappears and the tweets (question and answer) are added a as a
conversation thread.
• If Jaden has not yet viewed Slide 10, frame 2, the question from Alex appears as a conversation thread. Jaden can
click the original Twitter icon to view the question.
4 Casey is also viewing the course at the same time. Irrespective of which slide or frame Casey is viewing, an
additional Twitter icon appears as soon as Alex or Jaden ask a question.
• Casey can click the tweet to go to the context (slide 10, frame 2) and reply to the question.
• Casey can access the older tweets by clicking the original Twitter icon.
How is the 'context' of tweets determined?
The following factors determine the context of a question:
• Frame number
• The location on the slide where the elearner clicks to ask a question
If you or other elearners are viewing the published project, clicking the conversation headers or the new tweets takes
you to the context (slide and frame).
When you or other elearners view the tweets in the project using Twitter, the context is provided as follows:
FrameNumber, X co-ordinate, Y co-ordinate
For example, 245; 400; 194.
Asking questions
Only elearners (not the author) can ask a question in the project published with the Twitter widget.
1 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac), select Ask Question
2 Click inside the Ask A Question dialog box, and type the question
3 Click Send.