Cirip.eu is a microblogging platform designed for education that was launched in 2008. The presentation discusses microblogging and its educational uses, including as a tool for classroom community, collaboration, and personal learning networks. It provides an overview of various microblogging platforms and their features. Cirip.eu allows users to embed multimedia like images, audio, video and documents in messages. The presentation concludes that Cirip.eu has facilities that can successfully deliver online courses and enhance existing courses through communication tools and analytics.

1. Cirip.eu MICROBLOGGING for NETWORK LEARNING Gabriela Grosseck & Carmen Holotescu Network of Trainers in Europe Online Conference November, 9-10, 2009

2. Presentation Agenda 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? Follow-ups, future reflections and sharing at http://cirip.ro/grup/trainersineurope Sabin Balasa paintings at UAIC Iasi, Romania, http://picasaweb.google.com

3. 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 RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007, microblogging-2008/2009

4. A short introduction SOCIAL LEARNING

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

7. Compare your a-list with top at Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 (http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/) yes, You CANstill contribute to this top this week. Photo Flickr by yanivg, http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/64298062_4b83b8b87d.jpg

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

14. MICROBLOGGING PLATFORMS

15. Microblogging platforms used in education

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

17. How microblogging tools work Create an account and sign in Search for other people to follow (Other people are doing the same for you) 3. Read other peoples’ updates 4. Enter an update yourself 5. Go back to steps 3 and 4! 16

19. Launched in July, 2006

20. Robust, elegant and simple

21. More than 160 million users

25. features: Store and Share Files , Privacy Controls , Public Timeline (RSS) , Notifications (SMS) , Class Calendar , Assignments & Grades, Share Links and Embeds , Subscribe to Feeds

26. 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

27. 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).”

28. 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 photo: http://teach42.shoutem.com/ „We’ve all known it was coming, it as just a matter of time. Well, it has finally arrived and I’m thrilled to say that it was worth the wait. ShoutEmis a create-your-own-Twitter platform that works just as easily as Ningdoes. ” Steve Dembo

30. full control of your data, meaning if you want to migrate to another service you can take it with you

31. allows you to post 140 characters messages

32. login with your OpenID

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

35. used in a single organisation

36. attachment links, images, files

37. potential for schoolsphoto: 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

39. commenting and "like" system

40. room/ group creation

41. attachment links, pictures, embeddable 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.”

43. instantly communicate their current status (collaboration in Real-Time)

44. ask questions

45. post media (share documents & media)

46. groups for keeping conversations organized

47. device support (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

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

50. HOW MICROBLOGGING CAN IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING brainstorming ideas – please add your thoughts Scribd paper: Can we use Twitter for educational activities?

51. good points: Classroom community Collaboration Project Management Assessing opinion Conference / research Virtual classroom Learning experiences Personal Learning Network Exploring the language Reference services http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandemia/354115976/sizes/l/

52. badpoints privacy time-consuming distracting no social educational value rude addictive meaningless withouta network spam bad grammar skills

54. Working in group, find images with flickr, flickrcc, compfightor CreativeCommon.org!

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

57. Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in eLearning and mobile applications 7000 users interface in Romanian, English, German Group: http://www.cirip.ro/grup/trainersineurope

59. polls, quizzes – online or via SMS

60. feeds monitoring (via SMS)(sites/blogs/social networks/search feeds – jobs, weather, reactions)

61. statistics, visualizations, tags.Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

62. 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, flowgram, photopeach, picasa, notaland, prezi, diagrammr, screencastle, screenjelly, screenr,), - documents (odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt) Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

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

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

65. cirip2twitter, widget, export notes on blogs interactions online, via ciripfox/ ciripgadget/ ciripAIR/FF Ubiquity, SMS, mobile, IM, mJava, API, twitter2cirip, rss2cirip PROFILE livestreaming PLN: users, groups, feeds messages, images, audio, video (live), presentations, files

67. microblogging platform as LMS

68. course facilitationMaterials: announcements materials as LOM/SCORM objects

69. Course elements: announcements modules - LOM/SCORM objects collaborative exercises poll/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f) multimedia messages validations - interactions with users/groups

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

72. del.icio.us collection

73. video translation - writeboard, dotsub

74. comments on voicethread

75. tagcloud - wordle

78. Indicators: (mindmeister.com) Popularity Influence Coagulation index Exposure index Geographicaldistribution Temporal distribution Online social presence Rating (RT) Notoriety (favorite) Sharing (Link) Intimacy Spa Mood Language Connections/comunication PLE/PLN relevance ePortfolio

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

80. Group: http://www.cirip.ro/grup/trainersineurope

82. For follow-ups, future reflections and sharing, you are welcome at http://cirip.ro/grup/trainersineurope Your comment and questions are welcome. Thank you!