Microblogging Platform used for PLE and Online Courses in HE
Carmen Holotescu & Gabriela Grosseck
Cirip.eu
ViCaDiS International Conference on Virtual CampusesSeptember 25, Timisoara
Presentation Agenda
• A short introduction in Social Learning• What is microblogging? Uses in education• Cirip.eu – a microblogging platform for education• PLE and online courses on Cirip.eu
SOCIAL LEARNINGA short introduction
RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007, microblogging-2008/2009
Web2.0 / social networks have great impact
in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )
Enhancing teaching & learning using Web2.0 technologies
from Handbook of Emerging Technologies in Education: George Siemens, Peter Tittenberg (pg.34) ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/etl
INTRODUCTION TO MICROBLOGGING
What is it? And why should I care?
A collaborative definition of microblogging generated by oamos.com embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1645201
Microblogging is a collaborative technology, a new form of blogging, with brief text updates of 140 characters, via Web, SMS, email, IM or 3th party applications, which allows RT interactions between users.
Diagrammr at diagrammr.com/edit?key=dy4NKMc8XsZ embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1644841
photo: http://www.heikkironkko.com/images/yolehti_jaiku.jpg
Microblogging platforms used in education
Mar 2006 Oct 2007 Jan 2008 Sep 2008 Jul 2008Dec 2007 Mar 2008
Overview of the Microsphere Timeline
Twitter, Cirip.eu, and Yammer appear on Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/
HOW MICROBLOGGING CAN IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING
Scribd paper: Can we use Twitter for educational activities?
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
A slideshare presentation about collaboration on microblogging, embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1610057
A photopeach presentation for microblogging metaphors, embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/874542
The most popular microblogging system
Launched in July, 2006
Robust, elegant and simple
More than 90 million users
Numerous mash-ups
Social Social networking networking
in 140 in 140 characterscharacters
twittertwitter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124372363@N01/2417123304/sizes/o
Twitter Educational uses:Classroom community
Collaboration
Project Management
Assessing opinion
Conference / research
Virtual classroom
Learning experiences
Personal Learning Network
Reference services
A video clip about twitter at dotsub.com embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1644958
5000 users
interface in Romanian, English, German
Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in eLearning and mobile applications
Facilities Cirip.eu (1)
•public and private groups (courses, trainings, projects, events, internal communication, service, family, hobby, etc); group communication via SMS•polls, quizzes – online or via SMS•feeds monitoring (via SMS)(sites/blogs/social networks/search feeds – jobs, weather, reactions)•statistics, visualizations, tags.
Cirip.eu TUTORIAL
Facilities Cirip.eu (2)
multimedia objects embedded in messages (information/communication flow): - livestreaming,
- images (flickr, tinypic),
- audio (eok, trilulilu, deezer, blip.fm, vocaroo, mp3),
- (live) video (youtube, dotsub, vimeo, seesmic, screencastle, screenjelly, screenr,
220.ro, myvideo),
- presentations (slideshare, capzles, voicethread, flowgram, photopeach, picasa,
notaland, prezi, diagrammr),
- documents (odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt)
Cirip.eu TUTORIAL
PLN: users, groups, feeds
interactions online, via ciripfox/ ciripgadget/ciripAIR/FF Ubiquity, SMS, mobile, IM, mJava, API, twitter2cirip, rss2cirip
messages, images, audio, video (live), presentations, files
profile livestreaming cirip2twitter, widget, export notes on blogs
information and knowledge managementcourses enhancementdelivering entire online coursescollaborative projects in universitiescommunities of practiceePortfolios.
Personal Learning Environments ( Networks ) - PLE/PLN
Educational uses
Users
GrupuriFeeds Social networks
Mindmap at mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908 embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1629920
An online course about microblogging platformsResearch:
•integrate microblogging with other Web2.0 technologies
•microblogging platform as LMS
•course facilitation
Materials:announcements
materials as LOM/SCORM objects
Course elements:
announcements
modules – imported as LOM/SCORM objects
collaborative exercises
multimedia messages
poll/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f)
validation - interactions with users/groups
Participation:
built PLNs
42 members:
students, teachers, developers, librarians
1100 messages
Collaborative exercises using different Web2.0 technologies:•puzzle images - flickr, CC
•del.icio.us collection
•video translation - writeboard, dotsub
•comments on voicethread
•tagcloud - wordle
•code of good practices on microblogs - writeboard
Cirip.eu has facilities to deliver successful and qualitative online courses and to enhance courses; the communication (online/SMS/mobile), authoring, monitoring, statistical facilities make Cirip.eu a modern free LMS.
•Facilitating an entire online course or a part of a course on such a platform requires specific facilitation skills, and collaborative technologies knowledge.
•Participants gain important digital and communication skills, build PLEs, continue to collaborate in community after the course ends
Indicators:
Popularity
InfluenceCoagulation indexExposure indexGeographical distributionTemporal distributionOnline social presenceRating (RT)Notoriety (favorite)Sharing (Link)IntimacySpaMood Language
Connections/comunication
PLE/PLN relevanceePortfolio
More information at tinyurl.com/infocirip.
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