# Presentation: Twitter for in-class voting and more for ESTICT SIG

Today I presented some of my work on twitter voting to the **[Engaging Students Through In-Class Technology (ESTICT)](http://estict.ning.com/)** special interest group. This group *“is a UK network of education practitioners and learning technologists interested in promoting good practice with classroom technologies that can enhance face-to-face teaching.”*I used this slot as an opportunity to try out some some presentation techniques. The first was using [Timo Elliott’s PowerPoint auto-tweet plugin](http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/) which allows you to automatically tweet notes as you work through the slide deck. The plan was that this would provide ready made links and snippets for re-tweeting, favouring or just copying into a users personal notes. I also did this to generate information to twitter subtitle my presentation. An unforeseen benefit was that the tweets provided a stimulus for further discussion after the presentation. The other technique I picked up from was from [a presentation by Tony Hirst](http://www.slideshare.net/psychemedia/uksg-social-science) in which he included links to secondary resources by only displaying the end of a shortened url. This is demonstrated [in the presentation (with twitter subtitles of course ;-)](http://hawksey.info/ititle/ex/estict.html) (the link also contains a recipe for lecture capture enhancement):

[![ESTiCT Presentation link](https://hawksey.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/image2.png "ESTiCT Presentation link")](http://hawksey.info/ititle/ex/estict.html)