TAGSPresenter (alpha) – A Twitter/Google Sheets based presentation concept

TAGSPresenter

Update: Didn’t go well but revised version on this I’ve used successfully is here and slides published here.

Later today (2.30pmUTC) I’ll be presenting at #oer15 about Twitter in open education (tune in here). As I wanted to highlight the network effect of Twitter I wanted to engage not just the room, but leave ‘footprints’ as for others to follow. I know people like Alex Couros and Alan Levine have done cool stuff live tweeting from Keynote. I’ve dabbled with doing stuff with Microsoft PowerPoint but was never fully satisfied. Given Twitter now supports a number of embedded media formats I thought rather than trying to fit Twitter into another presentation tool, to turn my live tweets into my slides.
And so TAGSPresenter is born! Using a Google Sheet as an editor, Google Drive to host images and a bit of Google Apps Script to glue it together I’ve got my own Twitter based presentation tool. I don’t have time to write about how it was technically achieved but if you want to peak under the hood of the hack here are my ‘slides’ which are published here.
Tune in at 2.30 to see how it goes 😉

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