This document discusses building personal learning environments (PLEs) on microblogging platforms. It provides an overview of PLEs and microblogging, and uses Cirip.eu as a case study example. Cirip.eu is a microblogging platform designed for education that allows users to embed multimedia, participate in groups, and access open educational resources from their mobile devices. The document explores how PLEs can support formal and informal learning when constructed on microblogging platforms.

1. Building PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS on Microblogging Platforms Carmen Holotescu Gabriela Grosseck University Politehnica/ Timsoft West University Timisoara, Romania Summer Camp "Informatics at Castle", Macea August, 31, 2011 castel

2. HOW a PLE can be built, developed and conceptualized on microblogging platforms? CASE STUDY: cirip.eu

3. New trends in education What is PLE? What is microblogging? Overview of the microsphere PLE on twitter PLE on cirip.eu Formalizing PLE Students, teachers, researchers perspective on PLE on microblogging Where do we learn more?

4. SOCIAL LEARNING becomes formal

5. 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 )

6. 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

7. The term PLE was coined by JISC and Scott Wilson - 2005 http://zope.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/entries/20050125170206 Ilona Buchem's presentation http://www.slideshare.net/ibuchem , paper http://journal.webscience.org/658/

8. Mar Camacho's Presentation http://dotsub.com/view/c318487f-e8c8-4d73-ad75-3a02baa7ca7c Note http://www.cirip.ro/status/3543764

9. Malinka Ivanova's Presentation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DoSC9yWCVE Note http://www.cirip.ro/status/3544413

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

15. 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

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

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

18. The most popular microblogging system Launched in July, 2006 Robust, elegant and simple More than 200 million users Numerous mash-ups Social networking in 140 characters twitter http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124372363@N01/2417123304/sizes/o

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

20. - 22000 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

21. Facilities Cirip.eu (1) public and private groups (courses, internal training, 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

22. 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 )

23. 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

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

26. Formalizing PLE on cirip.eu Mindmap at http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908 embedded in the note at http://tinyurl.com/gotocirip3 Continuos Persistent Relevant Connecting / integrating Mobile Scalable Open to OERs Fiable Distributed Universal Cirip.eu - social network of PLEs

27. Students perspective on PLE http://cirip.ro/grup/siac10

28. Workshop group: cirip.ro/grup/co11 Where can we learn more?

29. 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

30. to constitute a framework for communication / sharing / learning in the PLE domain to be a source of real-time information, connections with practitioners worldwide … to offer access to all the group content, visualizations and statistics for future reflections The aims of the group PLEBCN : The first message in the group

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

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