Presentation at SoMobNet Roundtable, London, Nov, 21, 2011

1. Connecting formal and informal learning in HE through a mobile multimedia microblogging environment Carmen Holotescu Gabriela Grosseck University Politehnica/ Timsoft West University Timisoara, Romania Social Mobile Networking for Informal Learning London, Nov, 21, 2011 somobnet

3. SOCIAL LEARNING becomes formal

4. 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 )

5. 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

6. What is it? And why should I care?

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. 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 2009-2011: Twitter, Cirip, Yammer, Edmodo Elizabeth Koh, An overview of microblogging, http://www.slideshare.net/elizabethkoh/an-overview-of-microblogging , slide 16

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

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

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

16. - 25000 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

18. Facilities Cirip.eu (2) social network around multimedia objects multimedia objects embedded in messages (part of the communication flow, created/recreated, openess to (small) OERs - Weller, Martin (2010) ): - livestreaming, - images ( flickr, tinypic ), - audio ( eok, trilulilu, deezer, blip.fm, vocaroo, mp3 ), - (live) video ( youtube, dotsub, vimeo, screencastle, screenjelly, screenr, 220.ro, myvideo ), - presentations/learning design ( slideshare, capzles, voicethread, flowgram, photopeach, picasa, notaland, prezi, diagrammr, mindomo, mindmeister, spicynodes ), - documents ( odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt, google docs/forms/spreadsheets )

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

21. Learning contexts on Cirip.eu

24. Course elements: announcements modules - LOM/SCORM objects collaborative exercises learning from the stream multimedia messages Cirip as a social network of msLMS polls/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f) validations - interactions with users/experts/ groups

26. 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

28. Mar Camacho's Presentation Note http://www.cirip.ro/status/3161801 Students perspective on PLE http://cirip.ro/grup/siac10

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

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