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

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

Let’s know each other

SOCIAL LEARNING A short introduction

RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007 microblogging-2008-2010,
augmented reality location based applications - 2010 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

Welcome to … your space
<ul><li>Which 5 web 2.0 applications do you appreciate and use most? </li></ul><ul><li>Tweet #co11 </li></ul><ul><li>Compare your a-list with </li></ul><ul><li>Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 </li></ul>

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 3rd party applications, which allows real-time interactions between users.

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

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 Jul 2008 Dec 2007 Mar 2008 Overview of the Microsphere Timeline 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

How microblogging tools work <ul><li>Create
an account and sign in </li></ul><ul><li>Search for other people to follow </li></ul><ul><li>(Other people are doing the same for you) </li></ul><ul><li>3. Read other peoples’ updates </li></ul><ul><li>4. Enter an update yourself </li></ul><ul><li>5. Go back to steps 3 and 4! </li></ul>

MICROBLOGGING PLATFORMS

<ul><li>The most popular microblogging system
</li></ul><ul><li>Launched in July, 2006 </li></ul><ul><li>Robust, elegant and simple </li></ul><ul><li>More than 200 million users </li></ul><ul><li>Numerous mash-ups </li></ul>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

<ul><li>a private microblogging platform for
teachers and students to share ideas, files, events and assignments </li></ul><ul><li>features: Store and Share Files , Privacy Controls , Public Timeline (RSS) , Notifications (SMS) , Class Calendar , Assignments & Grades, Share Links and Embeds , Subscribe to Feeds </li></ul><ul><li>similar LMS </li></ul>„ 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 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

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 Steve Dembo 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

<ul><li>an open source implementation of
a distributed microblogging platform, CreativeCommons framework </li></ul><ul><li>full control of your data, meaning if you want to migrate to another service you can take it with you </li></ul><ul><li>allows you to post 140 characters messages </li></ul><ul><li>login with your OpenID </li></ul><ul><li>SMS updates and notifications </li></ul><ul><li>groups </li></ul>„ 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

<ul><li>business oriented </li></ul><ul><li>used in a
single organisation </li></ul><ul><li>attachment links, images, files </li></ul><ul><li>potential for schools </li></ul>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

<ul><li>more than 140 characters </li></ul><ul><li>c
ommenting and &quot;like&quot; system </li></ul><ul><li>r oom / g roup creation </li></ul><ul><li>attachment links, pictures, e mbeddable widgets ( YouTube, Flickr, twitpic ) </li></ul>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. ”

<ul><li>a micro-update communications for companies
that gives employees the ability to: </li></ul><ul><li>instantly communicate their current status (collaboration in Real-Time) </li></ul><ul><li>ask questions </li></ul><ul><li>post media (share documents & media) </li></ul><ul><li>groups for keeping conversations organized </li></ul><ul><li>d evice s upport (computer, mobile phone, any device connected to the Internet) </li></ul>photo: http://presentlyapp.com/ „ 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

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? <ul><li>Use a single word and write it down or tweet it #co11 </li></ul><ul><li>Working in group, find images with flickr , flickrcc , compfight or CreativeCommon.org ! </li></ul><ul><li>Go to Photopeach and build your attitude in a digital storytelling! </li></ul>

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

- 20000 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

Facilities Cirip.eu (1) <ul><li>public and
private groups </li></ul><ul><li>(courses, internal training, </li></ul><ul><li>projects, events, internal </li></ul><ul><li>communication, service, </li></ul><ul><li>family, hobby, etc); </li></ul><ul><li>group communication via SMS </li></ul><ul><li>polls , quizzes – online or via SMS </li></ul><ul><li>feeds monitoring </li></ul><ul><li>via SMS / sites / blogs / </li></ul><ul><li>social networks / search feeds </li></ul><ul><li>- jobs, weather, reactions) </li></ul><ul><li>statistics, visualizations, tags. </li></ul>Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

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 )

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Workshop group: cirip.ro/grup/co11

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