Virtual presentation at WCIT 2010 - http://wcit.eu

1. A Microbloging Platform for Mobile Learning and Online Courses in HE Carmen Holotescu Gabriela Grosseck Vladimir Cretu University Politehnica University of West Timisoara, Romania Cirip.eu WCIT, October 6-10, 2010 Virtual Presentation

3. SOCIAL LEARNING A short introduction

4. RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007, microblogging-2008-2010, augmented reality/location based applications - 2010 Web2.0 / social networks have great impact in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )

5. 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

6. INTRODUCTION TO MICROBLOGGING What is it? And why should I care?

7. A collaborative definition of microblogging generated by oamos.com embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1645201

8. Microblogging is a new form of blogging, with brief text updates of 140 characters, via Web, SMS, email, IM or 3rd party applications, which allows RT interactions between users.

9. Microblogging is a collaborative technology

10. Diagrammr at diagrammr.com/edit?key=dy4NKMc8XsZ embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1644841

11. photo: http://www.heikkironkko.com/images/yolehti_jaiku.jpg Microblogging platforms used in education

12. Mar 2006 Oct 2007 Jan 2008 Jul 2008 Dec 2007 Mar 2008 Overview of the Microsphere Timeline Sep 2008 4 platforms in Top 100 Tools for Leaning 2009: Twitter, Cirip, Yammer, Edmodo

14. MICROBLOGGING PLATFORMS

16. Twitter Educational uses: Classroom community Collaboration Project Management Assessing opinion Conference / research Virtual classroom Learning experiences Personal Learning Network Reference services

17. A video clip about twitter at dotsub.com embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1644958

19. a social journal for your life; a right-to-left scrolling “timeline” photo: http://friendfeed.com/robingood „ My Plurkline, for me, is a broadcast medium -I want to put a message out there and share some information and to do that I need to keep the line clear for people to read and respond to. I'm not looking to gather information from other people there (have so many other places where I already do that). ” Nick Peackey Nick Peackey

20. only 10 minutes to setup the own microblogging network useful for those devoted to a particular niche a customizable and easy-to-use community space sharing photos, files, links, locations and much more through a well known microblogging interface Steve Dembo photo: http://teach42.shoutem.com/ „ We’ve all known it was coming, it was just a matter of time. Well, it has finally arrived and I’m thrilled to say that it was worth the wait. ShoutEm is a create-your-own-Twitter platform that works just as easily as Ning does. Steve Dembo

25. Scribd paper: Can we use Twitter for educational activities? HOW MICROBLOGGING CAN IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

26. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandemia/354115976/sizes/l/ Classroom community Collaboration Project Management Assessing opinion Conference / research Virtual classroom Learning experiences Personal Learning Network Exploring the language Reference services good points:

27. distr acting time -consuming rude ad dictive no social educational value bad grammar skills privacy spam meaningless without a network bad points http://www.flickr.com/photos/80578657@N00/254923630/sizes/o

28. A slideshare presentation about collaboration on microblogging, embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1610057

29. A photopeach presentation for microblogging metaphors, embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/874542

30. 15000 users interface in Romanian, English, German finalist at Seedcamp Zagreb, Jan 2010 in Top 100 Tools for Leaning 2009 Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in eLearning and mobile applications

32. Facilities Cirip.eu (2) multimedia objects embedded in messages (communication flow, create/recreate, open to OERs): - 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 ), - leaning designs ( diagrammr, mindomo, mindmeister, spicynodes ), - documents ( odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt, google docs, forms ) Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

33. information and knowledge management courses enhancement delivering entire online courses collaborative projects in universities communities of practice ePortfolios. Personal Learning Environments ( Networks ) - PLE/PLN Educational uses Users Grupuri Feeds Social networks

34. 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

36. Course elements: announcements modules - LOM/SCORM objects collaborative exercises learning from the stream multimedia messages polls/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f) validations - interactions with users/experts/ groups

38. Mindmap at mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908 embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1629920 Cirip as social network: profile / object centric. LD scenarios as meta-objects.

39. Indicators : Popularity Influence Coagulation index Exposure index Geographical distribution Temporal distribution Online social presence Rating (RT) Notoriety (favorite) Sharing (Link) Intimacy Spa Mood Language Connections/comunication PLE/PLN relevance ePortfolio

40. Carmen Holotescu cirip.ro/u/cami13 twitter.com/cami13 Gabriela Grosseck cirip.ro/u/gabriela twitter.com/ggrosseck Vladimir Cretu cirip.ro/u/vcretu