(Note: The CLMOOC of 2016 starts on July 10. We’re running these Daily Connector ideas before CLMOOC launches as a sort of teaser, and an invitation to get connected. For more information about CLMOOC, you can sign up for news and information.)

You know how you follow your favorite hashtags (ie, #clmooc) and you think, that tweet is pure poetry. Now it can be. For Today’s Daily Connect, use a site called Poetweet to transform a connected friend’s twitter stream into poetry. Yeah. It’s weird. Feel free to do your own Twitter stream first but then take the plunge, and honor someone else’s words. Be sure to share out the poem (the site kicks out a url or take a screenshot and share that way. Make sure you let the person whose words you are using know you are using their words, you know?)

Go to Poetweet

Check out what the DML Research Hub’s stream looks like as a poem (and notice a reference at the end to Mimi and cello playing. Is Laura teaching Mimi how to play?)

Twitter Lists are one of those powerful connecting ideas that often fly below the radar. The Twitter lists that people make and share are not always immediately visible (go to profiles to find ‘em). And yet, the curated efforts that go into those lists can be a great place to discover and connect with others on the Interwebz and expand your own networks and communities and friendships as well.

Today’s Daily Connect is all about the discovery and making of Twitter lists.

So, find someone else’s Twitter lists (go to their Twitter profile and look for Lists) and maybe try to add a few more folks to your Follow. Or make your own Twitter list and begin to populate it. Lists can be private or public, but if you make a list public, why not share it with the Connected Courses community?

For example, check out my Twitter list of National Writing Project peeps. As I discover new people with affiliations to NWP, I add them to my list. (PS — not sure if you are on someone else’s list? Check your profile at Twitter, and find the Lists link. It will show your own lists and ones that you are on, too.)

This idea suggested by Laura G.