For the last two months, our class has been connecting with experts on twitter like authors, experts in history etc, but not celebrities for our second Genius Hour Presentation . So in part one we had to follow 10 experts that were related to our genius hour presentation, and the ones I followed who are connected to my Genius Hour presentation are  @RAS_Soc ,  @UTAsianStudies ,   @MongolsSilkRoad  , @SpiritAuthors , @UniversalMuseum , @musgalhistgroup , @AsianFusionmag_ , @wbasinger , and @CGTNOfficial. Which all some how connect to Ancient Chinese Clothing. Some thing like the picture below:

Emperor’s 12-sign semi formal dragon robe

After adding them in our lists, every time before class begins we had to tweet a summary of our Twitter Expert Connect list, retweet a post from one of our expert connect list and @mention a different person in our expert connect list. At first I really didn’t understand why we had to that every time , I always thought we were doing it for nothing at all. But later I understood that if we didn’t do that and randomly started asking questions to our expert connect, they would either block us or spam us.

So far I’ve  only asked questions to @MongolsSilkRoad and @RAS_Soc.  And the questions I asked @MongolsSilkRoad are: Dear @MongolsSilkRoad I am a student working on a project about Ancient Chinese clothing from the Song to the Ming dynasties and I would like to ask: What type of silk did they use in the Song dynasty?  And this information would help me in my Genius Hour presentation because then I can differentiate the silk between the Song and Ming dynasties. And : Dear @MongolsSilkRoad, Thank you again for responding to my question last time. I found some interesting things from that file. I would really like to know: What was the difference between the silk the nobles used and the peasants used?

And the question I asked @RAS_Soc is : Dear @RAS_Soc, I am a student, and I have been working on a project called Ancient Chinese clothing changed from the Song dynasty to the Ming dynasty and I would like to ask: What is it in the Ming Dynasties clothing that changed the most since the Song Dynasty?

In the end I got some positive and negative responds because even though my experts answered my questions which was good because that meant that if I ever needed help again they would be their to help if they can but some of their answers didn’t help because it had nothing to do with my project. But I think if I were to ever use this again for school work I would because it is also another way to get primary sources and more useful information.

Citations:

Daderot, “Emperor’s 12-sign semiformal dragon robe”. commons.wikimedia.org,October 08, 2013, http://www.commons.wikimedia.org//wiki/File:Emperor%27s_12-sign_semiformal_dragon_robe,_view_1,_China,_18th_century,_silk,_gold_thread,_embroidery_-_Royal_Ontario_Museum_-_DSC04462.JPG , March 08,2018

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