Twitter Course

Ownership

This course will be done, made, filled by the students.
The teacher will provide the backbone and the students have to expand.

The students will work on a shared document:
https://hackpad.com/WdKA-TWITTER-g8I73XVU4Eh

Teacher

This is a course!!!!

Dates

First part of the course

Day 1: 08-05-2014, intro Twitter
Day 2: 15-05-2014, intro Databases/Datavisualisation
Day 3: 22-05-2014, Twitter API
Day 4: 29-05-2014, Twitter research and visualisation

Second part of the course

Day 5: 05-06-2014, working on your assignment
Day 6: 12-06-2014, working on your assignment
Day 7: 19-06-2014, working on your assignment
Day 8: 26-06-2014, final presentations (and some info about the grading procedure)

Facebook Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1441973972707901/

Content

The students will provide the content (see hackpadlink above).

WDKA description: http://edu.wdka.nl/keuzemodules/2013/09/10/twitter/
Closed hackpad document with backup course content: https://hackpad.com/Twitter-course-To2Pyt7ExUS

Assignments

Week 1:

Install LAYAR on your mobile phone.
https://www.layar.com/products/app/
Assignment:
Find the layar which shows the tweets around you.
Investigate what kind of messages are tweeted,
How much is retweeted and other properties which are remarkable.
How do you represent what you found?

and - work on the hackpad document - week 1.
timelines of
communication technology
internet
social media
twitter

Week 2:

Start making some graphs and diagrams in Google Charts. (You need a gmail account for this.)
Gather number data about tweets (eg using LAYAR) and visualise these numbers in several ways.
Investigate at least one topic in self tracking apps.

Week 3:
Experiment with Scraperwiki. Visualize results.
Experiment with other visualizing tools (could be the teacher's template)

Week 4:
Collect several visualizations which appeal to you. Start preparing your own research and ways to work.

See final Assignment Text

Week 5-8: Work on your own assignment!
Week 8: Presentation and Grading

Final Assignment Text

Given the possibilities of Twitter and your specific design interests you are invited to formulate your own project using Twitter and Visualisation. The project should contain elements of Twitter, text and/or images, and visualisations (Infographics, Datavis, Mapping). It can be done web based, but also can have a meterialisation, like embroidery, knitting, wearable, poster.
The teacher will moderate your proposal.
Important is to show your development and progress within your subject.
Example subjects:

   Selftracking using Twitter

   Twitter in participatory design

   Twitter Novels

   History Writing using Twitter, compare to http://www.blokmapping.net/over

   Twitter Journalism, eg Narco Maffia in Mexico, compare in general to article of teacher in: http://www.vredesmagazine.nl/tijdschrift/VredesMagazine2014-2.pdf (Mexico)

Steps
Mindmap around your idea

   make a mindmap with different categories

Research part

   what sources are you using and how

Technical part

   what do you need, regarding software, search engines, datavis engines?

Formulating criteria

   when is your project a succes?

Planning

   you have to finish in time, don't make it too big?

Results

   These results have to contain

   Visual elements, datavis

   Storytelling elements, text

   Surprises - not expected observations

Deliverable
You have to deliver a LANDSCAPE format pdf containing:

   Title: your name

   Cover page: your most interesting visual result of this course

   Page 1: introduction in your own words: what is this course

   Page 2: week 1 results (from Dropbox)

   Page 3: week 2 results (from Dropbox)

   Page 4: week 3 results (from Dropbox)

   Page 5: week 4 results (from Dropbox)

   Page 6: Mindmap of your project

   Page 7: project description, time path, criteria for succes.

   Page 8/9/10: project results (from Dropbox)

   Page 11: reflection: what did you learn, liked, disliked about this course?

   Page 12: list of references (books, links, at least 5)