(draft) Presentation for the workshop : Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning CO11 on IT4ALL Moodle & WiZiQ Feb 4-6, 2011 CO11: Microblogging in education February 05 2011 | 10:00 AM (EST) http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/443207-co11-microblogging-in-education-by-holotescu-dr-grosseck

1. How to use MICROBLOGGING in Education
Carmen Holotescu Gabriela Grosseck
University Politehnica/ Timsoft West University
Timisoara, Romania
CO11
http://cirip.ro/grup/co11
Connecting Online 2011
http://connecting-online.ning.com

2. Let’s know each other
 A short introduction in Social Learning
 What is microblogging?
 Overview of the microsphere .
General uses
 Discover microblogging
through Cirip.eu
 Educational uses of microblogging
 What does the future look like?
Microblogging Reflections
 Where do we learn more?
Workshop group: cirip.ro/grup/co11

3. Let’s know each other

4. A short introduction
SOCIAL LEARNING

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

6. 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

7. Welcome to … your space
• Which 5 web 2.0 applications do you
appreciate and use most?
Tweet #co11
• Compare your a-list with
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010

8. http://personas.media.mit.edu/

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

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

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

15. Overview of the Microsphere Timeline
Mar 2006 Oct 2007 Dec 2007 Jan 2008 Mar 2008 Jul 2008 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. How microblogging tools work
1. Create an account and sign in
2. Search for other people to follow
(Other people are doing the same for you)
3. Read other peoples’ updates
4. Enter an update yourself
5. Go back to steps 3 and 4!
16

17. MICROBLOGGING PLATFORMS

18. Social
twitter networking in
140
characters
 The most popular microblogging system
 Launched in July, 2006
 Robust, elegant and simple
 More than 200 million users
 Numerous mash-ups
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124372363@N01/2417123304/sizes/o

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

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

21. • a private microblogging platform
for teachers and students to
share ideas, files, events and
assignments
• features: Store and Share Files ,
Privacy Controls , Public Timeline
(RSS) , Notifications (SMS) , Class
Calendar , Assignments & Grades,
Share Links and Embeds ,
Subscribe to Feeds
• similar LMS
photo: http://www.edmodo.com/public/
„ Edmodo could be used for a wide variety of tasks and lessons. […] It could also be a
forum for open discussion in an online course setting. In a one-to-one computing
environment you could post a story starter and have each student add a sentence or
paragraph to create a collaboratively written story. ”
Richard Byrne

22. 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

23. 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
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
Steve Dembo

24. • an open source implementation
of a distributed microblogging
platform, CreativeCommons
framework
• full control of your data,
meaning if you want to migrate
to another service you can take
it with you
• allows you to post 140
characters messages
• login with your OpenID
• SMS updates and notifications
• groups
„ Discussing and proposing pedagogical approachs for education within the paradigm and assistance of
Web2.0.”
http://identi.ca/group/w2e
http://identi.ca/group/w2e

25. • business oriented
• used in a single
organisation
• attachment links,
images, files
• potential for schools
photo: https://www.yammer.com/about/screenshots
„But I can see the potential for, say, a school. Certainly in the UK, [….] it would be really easy to set up a
Yammer account for students and staff to collaborate with each other in a closed-off environment.
So, if Twitter seems somewhat too open for comfort, perhaps Yammer is the answer. ”
Terry Freedman

26. • more than 140 characters
• commenting and "like"
system
• room / group creation
• attachment links,
pictures, embeddable
widgets (YouTube, Flickr,
twitpic) photo: http://friendfeed.com/robingood
„The option to create a private Friend Feedroom could be a great way to create a back
channelfor your classroom or for any workshops that you may lead. You could also
create a private Friend Feed room for your students to use as brainstorming area or a
book discussion forum. ”

27. • a micro-update communications for
companies that gives employees the
ability to:
• instantly communicate their current
status (collaboration in Real-Time)
• ask questions
• post media (share documents & media)
• groups for keeping conversations
organized
• device support (computer, mobile
phone, any device connected to the
photo: http://presentlyapp.com/
Internet)
„Present.lyprovides a free place to get the same type of feedback as you'd gather on
Twitter, but in a closed setting..”
Richard Byrne
Richard Byrne

28. brainstorming ideas – please add your thoughts
HOW MICROBLOGGING CAN IMPROVE
TEACHING AND LEARNING
Scribd paper: Can we use Twitter for educational activities?

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

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

31. What ‘s your attitude toward
microblogging?
•Use a single word and write it down or tweet it #co11
•Working in group, find images with flickr, flickrcc,
compfight or CreativeCommon.org!
•Go to Photopeach and build your attitude in a digital
storytelling!

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

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

34. Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education;
launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in
eLearning and mobile applications
- 20000 users
- interface in Romanian, English,
German
- Finalist at Seedcamp Zagreb, Jan
2010
- In Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

35. Facilities Cirip.eu (1)
• public and private groups
Cirip.eu TUTORIAL
(courses, internal training,
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.

36. 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)

37. Who are you?
Use multimedia
object to
describe yourself
- blip.fm, deezer,
youtube, vimeo -
etc.

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

40. An online course
about
microblogging
platforms
Research:
•integrate
microblogging
Materials: with other
announcements Web2.0
technologies
materials as
LOM/SCORM •microblogging
objects platform as LMS
•course
facilitation

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

42. Mobile learning features
localize and join mobile groups
access content and open educational resources
share opinions
work collaboratively on multimedia objects
participate in polls and quizzes
receive/send updates via SMS
create and manage mobile PLEs;
recover password via SMS.

43. 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.

44. Training for companies, private groups for internal communication,
best cases sharing (message at http://www.cirip.ro/status/2316514)

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

46. WHAT do our students NEED?
WCES 2009, 4-7 Feb., North Cyprus
University

47. Workshop group: cirip.ro/grup/co11

48. Carmen Holotescu
cirip.ro/u/cami13
twitter.com/cami13
Gabriela Grosseck
cirip.ro/u/gabriela
twitter.com/ggrosseck
Workshop group: cirip.ro/grup/co11