Using microblogging in education - Workshop Villach ICL 2009

icl09ws05 USING MICROBLOGGING in EDUCATION Carmen Holotescu & Gabriela Grosseck ICL2009 Conference, 23-25 sept. Villach / Austria http://www.icl-conference.org/

WORKSHOP AGENDA
Let’s know each other
A short introduction in Social Learning
What is microblogging?
Overview of the microsphere / Generally uses
Discovery microblogging through Cirip.eu
Educational uses of microblogging
What does the future look like? Microblogging Reflections
Where do we learn more?
AGENDA:

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 ) photo: http://es.onsoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/web20-redsocial.jpg

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

Welcome to … your space
Which 5 web 2.0 applications do you appreciate and use most?
Compare your a-list with top at
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
Photo Flickr by yanivg , http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/64298062_4b83b8b87d.jpg

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

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 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.

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

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 Elizabeth Koh, An overview of microblogging, http://www.slideshare.net/elizabethkoh/an-overview-of-microblogging , slide 16

How microblogging tools work
Create an account. Sign in. Personalize it.
Search for other people to follow. Add them in your own network.
3. Go to (your home) timeline. Read other peoples’ updates .
4. Enter a message yourself (text, links, images, videos etc.)
5. Go back to steps 3 and 4!

MICROBLOGGING PLATFORMS

The most popular microblogging system
Launched in July, 2006
Robust, elegant and simple
More than 90 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

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
„ 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 photo: http://www.edmodo.com/public/

a social journal for your life; a right-to-left scrolling “timeline”
photo: http://friendfeed.com/robingood
„ My Plurk line, 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

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
„ 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
photo: http://teach42.shoutem.com/

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
„ Discussing and proposing pedagogical approachs for education within the paradigm and assistance of Web2.0. ”
http://identi.ca/group/w2e

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

more than 140 characters
c ommenting and "like" system
r oom / g roup creation
attachment links, pictures, e mbeddable widgets ( YouTube, Flickr, twitpic )
photo: http://friendfeed.com/robingood
„ The option to create a private Friend Feed room could be a great way to create a back channel for 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. ”

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
d evice s upport (computer, mobile phone, any device connected to the Internet)
photo: http://presentlyapp.com/
„ Present.ly provides a free place to get the same type of feedback as you'd gather on Twitter, but in a closed setting.. ”
Richard Byrne

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

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

brainstorming ideas – please add your thoughts
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

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

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

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 WS group: http://cirip.ro/grup/icl09ws05

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, 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

Who are you? Use multimedia object to describe yourself (blip.fm, youtube or vimeo)

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

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

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 - LOM/SCORM objects collaborative exercises multimedia messages poll/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f) validations - 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 : (mindmeister.com) 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 http://www.scribblepad.co.uk/images/4412.jpg

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

WS group: http://cirip.ro/grup/icl09ws05 photo: http://digilander.libero.it/ali_di_raso/Senza%20nomej.bmp

Please let us know your opinion at cirip.ro/sondaj/25 . Thank you!

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