Building Learning Communities on Microblogging Platforms. Study Case: Cirip.eu

Building Learning Communities on Microblogging Platforms Carmen Holotescu & Gabriela Grosseck Cirip.eu CNIV / ICVL 30 October – 1 November, Iasi

Presentation Agenda

A short introduction in Social Learning

What is microblogging? Uses in education

Cirip.eu – a microblogging platform for education

Learning communities on Cirip.eu

photos at flickr.com/photos/cosmin_coco_ro flickr.com/photos/priviridesculte

SOCIAL LEARNING A short introduction

RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007, microblogging-2008/2009 Web2.0 / social networks have great impact in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mar 2006 Oct 2007 Jan 2008 Sep 2008 Jul 2008 Dec 2007 Mar 2008 Overview of the Microsphere Timeline Twitter, Yammer, Cirip.eu, and Edmodo appear on Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/

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

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:

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

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

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

The most popular microblogging system

Launched in July, 2006

Robust, elegant and simple

More than 160 million users

Numerous mash-ups

Social networking in 140 characters twitter http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124372363@N01/2417123304/sizes/o

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

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

7000 users interface in Romanian, English, German Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in eLearning and mobile applications

Facilities Cirip.eu (1)

public and private groups (courses, trainings, 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.

Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

Facilities Cirip.eu (2) multimedia objects embedded in messages (information/communication flow): - livestreaming, - images ( flickr, tinypic ), - audio ( eok, trilulilu, deezer, blip.fm, vocaroo, mp3 ), - (live) video ( youtube, dotsub, vimeo, seesmic, 220.ro, myvideo ), - presentations ( slideshare, capzles, voicethread, flow gram, photopeach, picasa, notaland, prezi, diagrammr, screencastle, screenjelly, screenr, ), - documents ( odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt ) Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

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

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

Mindmap at mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908 embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1629920

An online course about microblogging platforms

Research:

integrate microblogging with other Web2.0 technologies

microblogging platform as LMS

course facilitation

Materials: announcements materials as LOM/SCORM objects

Course elements: announcements modules – imported as LOM/SCORM objects collaborative exercises multimedia messages poll/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f) validation - interactions with users/groups

Participation: built PLNs 42 members: students, teachers, developers, librarians 1100 messages

Collaborative exercises using different Web2.0 technologies:

puzzle images - flickr , CC

del.icio.us collection

video translation - writeboard , dotsub

comments on voicethread

tagcloud - wordle

code of good practices on microblogs - writeboard

Cirip.eu has facilities to deliver successful and qualitative online courses and to enhance courses; the communication (online/SMS/mobile), authoring, monitoring, statistical facilities make Cirip.eu a modern free LMS.

Facilitating an entire online course or a part of a course on such a platform requires specific facilitation skills, and collaborative technologies knowledge.

Participants gain important digital and communication skills, build PLEs, continue to collaborate in community after the course ends

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

More information at tinyurl.com/infocirip .