During the last two months, or so, for our Genius Hour(GH), we were assigned to connect with people on Twitter. Those people had to be related to the subject that we chose. I chose inspiration and motivation as a subject.So I followed people related to that field, ten of them. Those people are mostly experts but some are lecturers. If you wonder about their twitter names, here they are: @speakers_corner, @tenthchildinc, @SpeakerMary, @ka_lindquist, @JorisvanderVoet, @psychologian, @LesBrown77, @speakerbureau, @zakijam and @KristiLonka.
Connecting with them does not mean just following them. It’s more than that. We had to mention them in the tweets we wrote about our subject. We also had to retweet them. All of that is so that they notice our existence. And then, we had to ask questions. The challenge is that, on twitter, we can’t write more than 140 characters. So, we had to write short interesting questions. I asked questions about motivation and inspiration, to all of the people I followed actively, all of them. I tweeted with the hope that they will answer. Unfortunately, only one of them answered. And that is Mme Kristi Lonka. So, I asked her another question, and she gave me a link to researches she made, about student behaviours. And her answers could feature on my Genius Hour presentation.
Thus, on my next GH project I might use this technique again, to connect with experts on the field I will chose.
