Hello!

During a couple of months, my class and I have been working on a project called ‘Twitter Expert Connection Assignment’, which like the name says, we were doing connections with people that had the same interest as us through Twitter.

First, we had to find a topic we would like to concentrate in. I chose Zero Waste* because I have been very interested about it since I think it is a great way to help the planet. This is also the topic I am doing for my second Genius Hour.   *Zero Waste is a way in which by producing less trash and accumulating less things, we become aware of how we impact the world around us, and we take better care of it.

Once we had chosen a topic, we had to find 10 experts or people interested in it, so we could follow them and learn a little bit more about this topic.                                                                                                                                                                  This are the 10  I chose to follow which showed knowledge about Zero Waste:

Lauren Singer @Trashis4Tossers	Bea Johnson @zerowastehome	Litterless @golitterless	Waste Shifter @WasteShifter	Rob Greenfield @RobJGreenfield
Kathryn Kellogg @goingzerowaste	PAREdown @Paredownhome	The Girl Gone Green @ManuelaBaronC	Beth Terry @PlasticfreeBeth	Ivan Clark @icplanner99

 

Once we had our experts, we had to ask them some questions about our topic. I chose to ask them more specific things about zero waste such as how to compost, the hardest things to give up or the positive outcomes of shopping second hand.

At first, I was a little bit lost because I had no idea on how I should ask the questions to these people that I didn’t know much about and that I hadn’t met in person. But the one thing I knew was: I couldn’t be creepy. Finally, I decided to address them all as Dear _____, then thank them for their interesting post, and finally asking them a question.

Not all of the 10 experts answered my questions, but those who answered gave me incredible responses and help as well as recommendations and websites. All this information helped me for my Genius Hour because it answered many questions that I had about my topic from actual experts that I couldn’t find just like that in the internet.

Now I am going to talk a little more on what happened in the process:

Overall, I got three responses from the questions I asked, which isn’t a lot, but those who answered had very useful explanations. Waste Shifter (who ended up following me 🙂 ), gave me a link to a university report on waste and Kathryn Kellogg gave me tips to create a compost in the garden without any important materials. Of course, after they had answered, I send them another tweet thanking them for the information.

 –> Picture of the compost I created that I send to Kathryn Kellogg.

 

As a conclusion, I have liked a lot this project because it helped me develop the way I ask for help as well as being careful with the people we follow knowing if they will respond back and give useful information, or if they are too busy to do so. I will definitely use what we learn in the future such as writing a long IB essay, specially if I need specific information from experts.

Works Cited:

“Zero Waste Heroes.” Twitter, pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/687926599866540033/W-ry0mvT.jpg.

Bye bye!