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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Literacy Project Reflection

 Synopsis


My project used Twitter to tweet at three different times throughout the day, 12am, 12pm, and 8pm, about topics and posts related to books, literature, authors' quotes, and just reading and literacy in general. As previously mentioned, I ended up choosing the Twitter option for this project. The purpose of this project was to get people more interested in reading in general by tweeting about reading and how it could be beneficial. The project also exhibited different quotes from authors as well as some interesting characteristics of reading and books in general. The project was run from my Twitter bot known as @subredditsbot and #reading and #literacy were used on practically every tweet that was published.


Tweets

I will now show you all of the tweets:





























Explanation

The messages that were in the tweets varied quite a lot. From the benefits of books and reading to quotes from various famous authors all the way to tweeting about the smallest book in the Library of Congress. These messages were chosen because they had some sort of connection to books, literacy, literature, statistics about books, or just reading in general. The #reading and #literacy were used for two reasons. One was so it was really easy to search through the account's tweet archive to find the tweets pertaining to this literacy project since it is a Twitter bot. Another reason that these hashtags were used because every tweet that was used for this project is connected to reading or literacy in some sort of way. The images that were used as tweets were quotes about reading from famous authors that really portrayed what they thought about reading and just added another person's voice to the project besides @subredditsbot. I had to decide what exactly I wanted to include in these tweets because there is so much out there about reading, literacy, and just books in general. Another problem was trying to fit what I wanted to say in the character limit on Twitter. I was able to get through these two problems by deciding what was the most important ideas and concepts to tweet about along with whittling down exactly what I wanted to say in the tweets and to get rid of any unnecessary garbage.

Effectiveness of the Project

All in all, I felt that the project did what it was supposed to. The account tweeted about various things regarding reading, literacy, and books and if other Twitter users liked the tweets, then those tweets would be favorited as 5 or so of my tweets were. I got the end project that I hoped would happen. Some of the challenges along the way was just getting the right material and not messing up with not including pictures in a tweet about a quote as seen in the tweet that simply says "Stephen King Quote" with NO quote. Another challenge was simply trying to get other people to simply react to what had been tweeted. The successes was having people favorite my tweets. These tweets did serve the purpose of the project to have everyone just get a better understanding of reading in general. It has been received fairly well. Besides from making sure that Mr. Davidson was not following the twitter bot anymore before it re-started its barrage of tweets from Reddit. Sorry about that. Besides that, I feel that the project was well received. I feel like the effectiveness of the project will decrease as it is already buried under thousands and thousands of tweets. The only real way to find these tweets now is to access my Twitter archive for @subredditsbot of 770 thousand + tweets or individually search for the tweets using the hashtags and key terms that were in the tweets.

Works Cited

I understand that this was required but I just wanted to post a works cited in case people wanted to learn more about the information that was discussed in the tweets. This is NOT a complete list.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-benefits-reading-why-you-should-read-everyday.html
http://lifedev.net/2009/06/reading-makes-you-better/
https://nptreads.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/dr-who-quote1.jpg
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/utterly-disappointing-facts-about-books
https://sozadesigns.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/writersquotes1.jpg
http://www.statisticbrain.com/reading-statistics/
http://loc.gov/about/fascinating-facts/
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/06/61/2e/06612e6665cf7ad4de8f09acc7263dc9.jpg
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/read-a-book-day-5-book-facts-you-didnt-know
http://www.unbelievable-facts.com/2013/09/10-scientific-facts-about-reading-books.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/utterly-disappointing-facts-about-books#.vhYea7mvY
https://agentcarlywatters.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/s-king-quote.jpg

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  1. UnknownSeptember 30, 2015 at 6:57 AM

    I think you're project turned out really well and i like the information you tried to share!

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