A Microbloging Platform for Mobile Learning and Online Courses in HE

Carmen Holotescu Gabriela Grosseck Vladimir Cretu University Politehnica University of West

Timisoara, Romania

Cirip.eu

WCIT, October 6-10, 2010

Virtual Presentation

AGENDA

What is microblogging?

Overview of the microsphere / General uses

Discover microblogging through Cirip.eu

Mobile Learning and Online Courses on Cirip.eu

SOCIAL LEARNINGA 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

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 RT interactions between users.

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 Jul 2008Dec 2007 Mar 2008

Overview of the Microsphere Timeline

Sep 2008

4 platforms in Top 100 Tools for Leaning 2009: Twitter, Cirip, Yammer, Edmodo

How microblogging tools work

1. Create an account and sign in2. Search for other people to follow

(Other people are doing the same for you)

3. Read other peoples’ updates 4. Enter an update yourself5. Go back to steps 3 and 4!

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MICROBLOGGING PLATFORMS

The most popular microblogging system

Launched in July, 2006

Robust, elegant and simple

More than 90 million users

Numerous mash-ups

Social Social networking networking

in 140 in 140 characterscharacters

twittertwitter

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 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 PeackeyNick Peackey

only 10 minutes to setup the own microblogging networkuseful for those devoted to a particular nichea customizable and easy-to-use community spacesharing 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

• 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

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• commenting and "like"

system• room / group creation• attachment links,

pictures, embeddable widgets (YouTube, Flickr, twitpic)

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.”

• 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• device support (computer, mobile

phone, any device connected to the Internet) 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

HOW MICROBLOGGING CAN IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

Scribd paper: Can we use Twitter for educational activities?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandemia/354115976/sizes/l/

Classroom community Collaboration

Project ManagementAssessing opinion

Conference / research Virtual classroom

Learning experiences Personal Learning

Network Exploring the language

Reference services

good points:

distracting time-consuming

rude

addictive

no socialeducational value

bad grammar skills

privacy

spam

meaningless without a network

bad points

http://www.flickr.com/photos/80578657@N00/254923630/sizes/o

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

15000 users

interface in Romanian, English, German

finalist at Seedcamp Zagreb, Jan 2010

in Top 100 Tools for Leaning 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)

•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

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 ),

- leaning designs (diagrammr, mindomo, mindmeister, spicynodes),

- documents (odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt, google docs, forms)

Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

information and knowledge managementcourses enhancementdelivering entire online coursescollaborative projects in universitiescommunities of practiceePortfolios.

Personal Learning Environments ( Networks ) - PLE/PLN

Educational uses

Users

GrupuriFeeds 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 platformsResearch:

•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

learning from the stream

multimedia messages

polls/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f)

validations - interactions with users/experts/

groups

Mobile learning features:

localize and join mobile groups access content and open educational resources share opinionswork collaboratively on multimedia objectsparticipate in polls and quizzesreceive/send updates via SMScreate and manage mobile PLEs;recover password via SMS.

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.

Indicators:

Popularity

InfluenceCoagulation indexExposure indexGeographical distributionTemporal distributionOnline social presenceRating (RT)Notoriety (favorite)Sharing (Link)IntimacySpaMood Language

Connections/comunication

PLE/PLN relevanceePortfolio

Carmen Holotescucirip.ro/u/cami13

twitter.com/cami13

Gabriela Grosseckcirip.ro/u/gabriela

twitter.com/ggrosseck

Vladimir Cretucirip.ro/u/vcretu