Paper presented at EDEN 2015 International Conference in Budapest 14-17 June 2016 The concept of virtual mobility can be defined as a set of ICT supported activities that realise or facilitate international, collaborative experiences in a context of teaching and/or learning it. Since 2008, the authors have offered TalkTech, an online collaboration enabling students from their universities to research technology trends, share their experiences, and create multimedia objects to present their findings (Frydenberg & Andone, 2010). As members of international teams, they must produce a viable digital media product created working with international partners located on another continent. Throughout the six-week project they must select appropriate digital tools to support with their communication and collaboration efforts, manage time zones and technologies, and track their progress. The purpose of this collaborative project is to create a controlled work environment which models the global enterprise, where the use of web-based collaboration and communication tools are commonplace. The analysis in this paper will show how this project supports Wheeler's characteristics of digital literacy (Wheeler, 2012).

1. ENHANCING CREATIVITY
AND OPENING UP
LEARNING THROUGH
VIRTUAL MOBILITIES
Dr. Diana Andone
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Mark Frydenberg
Bentley University, MA, USA
http://www.slideshare.net/diando70/ @diando70
EDEN 2016

2. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-digital-literacy

3. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-digital-literacy

4. Digital Literacy
Social
Networking
Transliteracy
Maintaining
Privacy
Managing
Digital Identity
Creating
Content
Organizing
and Sharing
Reusing /
Repurposing
Filtering and
Selecting
Self-
Broadcasting
(Steve Wheeler http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/ )

5. need to control - online activity,
communication, eLearning environment
Digital students

6. Computational thinking

7. Creative creators

8. Today students willlearn independent and
digital alltheir life
OPEN life long learning STUDENT
21st century skills
Are they ready to identify, access, learn, analyse, apply, practice new knowledge
across different media, information, communication, tools as to enhance their
skills and develop their careers?

9. DEFY THE TRADITIONAL

10. TalkTech 2008 -2016 Students
707 students involved, no dropout
Boston, Bentley Univ
Intro to Information Technology
45 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 19-22
Timisoara, UPT
Multimedia Technologies
50 students per year
Spoke English
Frequently use the web,
computers, and mobile devices
Age 21-22

11. Project Goals
Work with students from another country to
research a technology topic and present those
results using collaborative multimedia tools
Identify and use both synchronous and
asynchronous tools to communicate with
international partners
Produce a tangible work product within a
designated period of time

12. Project Debrief: Skyping in

13. TalkTech 2008 – 2016 - Tools

14. Tools used by students
Task Tools
align time zones timeanddate.com
chat
Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Google
Hangouts
create and host audio SoundCloud
create and host video Vine, Periscope, YouTube, PowToon
create interactive images ThingLink
edit audio Sound Forge
edit images PhotoShop,Paint.net
edit video Windows Live Movie Maker
email Gmail, Outlook
hold video conferences Google Hangouts, Skype
record video mobile phonecamera apps
schedule meetings Doodle
search the web Google, Bing
share photos Flickr, Tumblr
share screens join.me, Google Hangouts

15. Students projects 2015
ThingLink

16. ThingLink
TalkTech 2015 Students

17. TalkTech 2016
Vine
exemplu
Messaging App

18. TalkTech 2016
Vine
exemplu
Internet of
Things

19. Student attitude toward technologies used in
TalkTech 2015
1. Mobile phone / smartphone
2. SMS – text messaging
3. Search engines (such as Google)
4. Online/mobile chat (Yahoo, MSN,
Google chat, others)
5. VoIP (Skype, Hangouts, Viber,
etc.)
6. Mobile chat (WhatsApp, Viber)
7. Online video (YouTube, etc.)
8. Online photo sharing (Flickr,
Picassa, etc.)
9. Online games
10. Blogs
11. Wikipedia
12. Facebook
13. Twitter
14. Collaborative Writing (Google
Docs /Drive, Microsoft Office
Online, etc.)
15. Vine
16. Periscope

20. Students perception on which tools allowed
them to be most creative in TalkTech 2015
1. Facebook
2. Vine
3. Periscope
4. YouTube
5. ThingLink
6. Skype
7. Pixton

21. Multicultural
Online – different time zones
Simulate real world work in an IT company
Students freely choose the tools, communication, working time and
hours, result
TalkTech 2008- 2016 – Virtual
mobilities

22. Digital Literacy
Social
Networking
Transliteracy
Maintaining
Privacy
Managing
Digital Identity
Creating
Content
Organizing and
Sharing
Reusing /
Repurposing
Filtering and
Selecting
Self-
Broadcasting
(Steve Wheeler http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/ )
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23. Constraint enhance creativity

24. ENGAGE

25. Challenge

26. CONTACT
Dr. Diana Andone
Director
e-Learning Center
Email: diana.andone@upt.ro
Web
Elearning.upt.ro/diana.andone
@diando70
http://www.slideshare.net/diando70/
EDEN Fellow 2011