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1. Microblogging in the classroom.
From information to participation
F i f ti t ti i ti
Ismael Peña-López
Agustí Cerrillo Martínez
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
III Conference on Law teaching and
Information and Communication Technologies
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
U i it t Ob t d C t l
Barcelona, 8 June 2012

2. Introduction
e-Government: framework and professional context
Wealth of the students’ profiles
Skills for the job market
Transversal skills
Communication competence
Digital
Di i l competence
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3. Why and what for Twitter in the classroom
y
Sense of community en virtual environments
Almost real-time in asynchronous environments
Student engagement
Proactivity
Information sources from “the outside”
Informal learning
I f ll i
Teacher engagement
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4. Workings of the experience
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5. Participation in the experience
2010 2011
Total users: 43 26
Total professors:
p 3 3
Total students: 40 23
Total messages: 79 312
Messages from professors: 51 129
Messages from students: 28 183
Messages / user:
M 1.8
18 12.0
12 0
Messages / professor: 17.0 43.0
Messages / student: 0.7 8.0
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6. Students’ profiles
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7. Use of the tool (I)
()
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8. Use of the tool (II)
( )
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9. Evaluation of the experience (I)
()
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10. Evaluation of the experience (II)
( )
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11. Evaluation of the experience (III)
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12. Conclusions
Coming of age of the adoption of web 2.0 tools
Key importance of usage
sense of purpose
properly led and “scaffolded”
Permeability of the “walls” of the virtual classroom
From information to participation
F i f i i i i
Sense of community
of learning
of practice

13. Barcelona, 8 ju e 2012. U e s a Obe a de Ca a u ya
a ce o a, june 0 Universitat Oberta Catalunya
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Peña-López, Ismael & Cerrillo Martínez, Agustí. ( 0 ) Microblogging in t e c ass oo
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