Quick tips to capture an #edchat or Twitter chat with Storify
- Create a Storify account @ storify.com.
- Participate in your edchat and note its hashtag (but this will work for any topic with a hashtag in Twitter).
- When the edchat is over, login to Storify
- Select “Create New Story”
- In right column click on Twitter icon, enter the hashtag in the search field (you can specify some other items using the search field like Type, Location, Language if you need), & click on search icon
- Storify collects all relevant tweets w/ hashtags in right hand column
- In the Story panel on the left, create a headline like “[Name of edchat] [Date of edchat] [hashtag]” like “EdchatDE November 5/2016” & add description if you want
- Pick the tweets on the right that you want to add to your “Story”
- I usually pick “add them all” at the top of the column
- You can also scroll through the list on to drag/drop specific ones into your Storify story.
- It’s now up to you if you want to “edit” the Tweets in the Storify window:
- Delete extraneous comments (e.g. do you want to keep the “introduce yourself” responses in your content here?);
- Organize content users strung across multiple tweets that got interspersed with other’s tweets (e.g. ones that have “1/2” and 2/2” indicate it’s a 2 part tweet);
- Organize the question tweets by an edchat leader with all the answers (i.e. put Q1 first and all the A1 responses under it; move on to Q2 and then organize all the Q2 ).
- Once you have edited the number and order of the tweets to your likking, publish your Storify and share the link using the “Share” button (you can pick the social media where you want to share the link via icons).
- Of course you don’t have to share, and could keep the edited copy for yourself…but others might be interested.
If you have any other tips or tricks for capturing #edchats or Twitter chats with Storify, please feel free to add them in the comments.
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