Presented at ViCaDiS International Conference on Virtual Campuses, September 25, Timisoara

1. Microblogging Platform used for PLE and Online Courses in HE Carmen Holotescu & Gabriela Grosseck Cirip.eu ViCaDiS International Conference on Virtual Campuses September 25, Timisoara

3. SOCIAL LEARNING A short introduction

4. 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 )

5. 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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

13. 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:

14. 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

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

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

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

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

20. 5000 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

22. 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, screencastle, screenjelly, screenr, 220.ro, myvideo ), - presentations ( slideshare, capzles, voicethread, flowgram, photopeach, picasa, notaland, prezi, diagrammr ), - documents ( odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt ) Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

23. 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

24. 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

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

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

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

31. 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

32. More information at tinyurl.com/infocirip .