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about two microblogging platform: Twitter and Cirip.ro - the educational perspective
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Microblogging is a collaborative technology
a new form of blogging, brief text updates , 140-200 characters, via Web, SMS, email, IM or third party applications , real-time interactions between users
photo: http://www.heikkironkko.com/images/yolehti_jaiku.jpg
The best known microblogging services
Most popular microblogging systems
Robust, elegant and simple
More than 1 million users (for twitter)
Numerous mash-ups
Social Social networking networking
in 140 in 140 characterscharacters
twittertwitter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandemia/354115976/sizes/l/
Classroom community Collaboration
Project ManagementAssessing opinion
Conference / research Virtual classroom
Learning experiences Personal Learning
Network Exploring the language
Reference services
good points:
distracting time-consuming
rude
addictive
no socialeducational value
bad grammar skills
privacy
spam
meaningless without a network
bad points
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80578657@N00/254923630/sizes/o
Romanian Twitosphere
A Romanian microblogging
platform
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
Clay P. Bedford
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53454935@N00/37039048
Thank you!
Gabriela GrosseckUniversity of the West Timisoarahttp://grosseck.blogspot.comwww.twitter.com/ggrosseck www.cirip.ro/u/Gabriela
Carmen HolotescuUniversity Politehnica TimisoaraManager Timsoft Timisoarablog: www.timsoft.ro/weblogwww.twitter.com/cami13http://www.cirip.ro/u/cami13
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