In this recipe, we are going to create a positive and negative points list. We are going to create a link to the official website of Alnwick Castle, which is in England. This castle can be rented for a wedding or a special celebration with friends. Through Twitter, students can give either positive or negative feedback about renting the castle for their graduation party. Wouldn't that be awesome? Let's Moodle it!
We are going to create an activity in which all the students can give their opinion about this idea. We are going to use the same Twitter account that we already created for the previous activity. Afterwards, students are going to write a composition using either the positive list or the negative one. They are going to use only one list because they are going to write a story depending on what happened in their graduation party. This story can either be positive or negative. Another option is to write an essay about the advantages and disadvantages of planning a graduation party in a castle. I'm going to propose the first one so that they learn how to write stories using different techniques.
Let's propose the activity to our students in Twitter. Therefore we are going to enter the Twitter account we have previously created. We are going to add the title of the Exercise by completing the What's happening? block, as shown in the next screenshot:
We are going to enter into the Weekly outline section in our Moodle course where we want to add the activity. If you want your students to write in support of or against an article, you can design the activity in an Essay. But, if you want your students to invent a story using either the positive or the negative points, then you can use Online text. You have to follow these steps:
- Select Add an activity and click on Online text within Assignments.
- Complete the Assignment name block.
- Complete the Description block. In this block, link to Twitter, as shown in the next screenshot:
- Complete the Insert Link block, as shown in the previous screenshot.
- Click on Save and return to course.
The activity is ready to work with.
Instead of creating a link to Twitter website, we can include a Twitter button in our Moodle course.
It is very simple. In order to add a Twitter button, you have to follow these steps:
- Go to the following website: http://twitterbuttons.sociableblog.com/. You have to follow the instructions given on the web page.
- Complete the block with your ID, as shown in the next screenshot:
- Enter your ID and click on GO, as shown in the previous screenshot.
- Choose the Twitter button that you like best and click on Highlight Code.
- Right-click and select Copy in the context menu that appears.
- Go to the Moodle course.
- Update the Assignment and click on the Toggle HTML Source icon, (which looks like this:<>).
- Paste this code.
- The icon will appear as shown in the next screenshot:
