This document provides instructions for creating and embedding a Twitter widget in Blackboard. It explains how to generate widget code from your Twitter settings, copy that code, and paste it into the HTML box when adding an item or blank page in Blackboard. Doing this will display a live Twitter feed from the selected account on your Blackboard page. The purpose is to share background information for a mobile tablet loan scheme as part of a course at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

1. MOBILE LEARNING@DIT
@iclaudiad
CREATING AND EMBEDDING A
TWITTER WIDGET IN BLACKBOARD

2. First you need to create your widget on twitter and
to do so, go to your settings and select “widgets”:

3. When the widget page opens, select “user
timeline” (This is usually the default selection)

4. Fill in all the username of the account whose tweets
you want to stream into blackboard

5. Grab the code underneath the preview:

6. Log into webcourses into the context you want to add
the twitter feed. In this case I am adding it to my
front page. You can choose to add an item or a blank
page:

7. Fill in a title for your widget, and select “HTML”
so that you can add your code

8. Paste your code into the HTML box, and select
“update” underneath it:

9. It will now appear on your content list

10. Now turn “edit mode off: Your twitter feed
should now appear in your page:

11. Thank you
This is part of background material for the
Mobile Tablet Loan Scheme at the Dublin
Institute of Technology.
For more info:
http://ditmobilelearning.wordpress.com/