Presentation at Arad Academic Days 2011, http://url.ie/bgvf.

1. Building PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS on Microblogging Platforms Carmen Holotescu Gabriela Grosseck University Politehnica/ Timsoft West University Timisoara, Romania Arad Academic Days image of the Mures river, Arad: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iorei/ May, 20-22, 2011

2. HOW a PLE can be built, developed and conceptualized on microblogging platforms? CASE STUDY: cirip.eu

4. SOCIAL LEARNING becomes formal

5. RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007 microblogging-2008-2011, augmented reality location based applications - 2010-2011 Web2.0 / social networks have great impact in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )

6. JESS3 Labs The Geosocial Universe 2.0 Comparison between the total amount of registered users with the percentage of people accessing the sites via mobile http://jess3.com/geosocial-universe-2

7. The term PLE was coined by JISC and Scott Wilson - 2005 http://zope.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/entries/20050125170206 Ilona Buchem's presentation http://www.slideshare.net/ibuchem

8. Mar Camacho's Presentation http://dotsub.com/view/c318487f-e8c8-4d73-ad75-3a02baa7ca7c Note http://www.cirip.ro/status/3543764

9. Malinka Ivanova's Presentation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DoSC9yWCVE Note http://www.cirip.ro/status/3544413

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

11. 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 real-time interactions between users.

12. Microblogging is a collaborative technology photo: http://media2.lelombrik.net/13501-14000/13845.jpg

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

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

15. Mar 2006 Oct 2007 Jan 2008 Jul 2008 Dec 2007 Mar 2008 Overview of the Microsphere Timeline Sep 2008 4 platforms in Tops 100 Tools for Leaning 2009/2010: Twitter, Cirip, Yammer, Edmodo Elizabeth Koh, An overview of microblogging, http://www.slideshare.net/elizabethkoh/an-overview-of-microblogging , slide 16

16. From Grosseck,Holotescu “Academic research in 140 characters and more” http://slideshare.net/ggrosseck

17. From Grosseck,Holotescu “Academic research in 140 characters and more” http://slideshare.net/ggrosseck

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

20. - 20000 users - interface in Romanian, English, German - Finalist at Seedcamp Zagreb, Jan 2010 - In Top 100 Tools for Learning 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

22. 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, diagrammr, mindomo, mindmeister, spicynodes ), - documents ( odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt, google docs/forms/spreadsheets )

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

27. Students perspective on PLE http://cirip.ro/grup/siac10

28. Workshop group: cirip.ro/grup/co11 Where can we learn more?

29. cirip.ro/grup/plebcn Learning from the stream time capsule with messages in 140 characters sent by participants, practitioners, teachers , trainers, students and others interested in PLE, from twitter, cirip, blogs, SNs

31. cirip.ro/grup/lds Activating in Learning Design group

32. Thank you! Carmen Holotescu cirip.ro/u/cami13 twitter.com/cami13 Gabriela Grosseck cirip.ro/u/gabriela twitter.com/ggrosseck