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from the Perspective of MICROBLOGGING
as a Provocative Sociolect in Virtual Space
INDICATORS
Gabriela Grosseck West University of Timisoara Romania
Carmen HOLOTESCU Politehnica University of Timisoara Manager Timsoft
eLSE Conference, Bucharest, 9-10 April 2009
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AGENDA
Microblogging technology
Microblogging platforms
Cirip.ro
Indicators in an online course
Conclusions
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RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007, microblogging-2009
Web2.0 / social networks have great impact
in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )
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Microblogging is a collaborative technology, a new form of blogging, with brief text updates of 140 characters, via Web, SMS, email, IM or 3th party applications - RT interactions between users
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photo: http://www.heikkironkko.com/images/yolehti_jaiku.jpg
The best known microblogging services
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Most popular microblogging system
Robust, elegant and simple
More than 7 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
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Twitter Educational uses:
Classroom community
Collaboration
Project Management
Assessing opinion
Conference / research
Virtual classroom
Learning experiences
Personal Learning Network
Reference services
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Educational uses:•information and knowledge management
•courses enhancement
•delivering entire online courses
•collaborative projects in universities
•communities of practice
•ePortfolios.
Cirip.ro - a microblogging platform specially designed for education and business; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft
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Personal Learning Environments / Networks of users
Cirip.ro special features:
•public and private groups (courses, projects, events, different topics)
•multimedia objects embedding in notes:
images (flickr, tinypic), audio (deezer, vocaroo) and (live) video clips (youtube, dotsub, vimeo, seesmic, screencastle), presentations (slideshare, slideshow, capzles, voicethread, flowgram, photopeach, notaland) documents (pdf, doc,xls), live streaming
•feeds monitoring (from sites/blogs/social networks/search).
Users
GroupsFeeds
Networks
of
edu-Resources
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PLE/PLN: users, groups, feeds
Interactions online, via ciripfox, ciripGadget, SMS, mobile, IM, (MMS), API, twitter2cirip, rss2cirip
Text messages, images, audio, video (live), presentations, files
Profile
cirip2twitter, widget, export notes,
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Indicators:
Popularity
Influence
Coagulation index
Exposure index
Geographical distribution
Temporal distribution
Online social presence
Connections/comunication
PLE/PLN relevance
ePortfolio
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Group news:
announcements
materials as LOM/SCORM objects
An online course about microblogging platforms
Investigations:
•integrate microblogging with other Web2.0 technologies
•microblogging platform as LMS
•course facilitation
•indicators
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Course elements:
announcements
materials as LOM/SCORM objects
collaborative exercises
multimedia messages
built PLE / PLN
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Collaborative exercises using different Web2.0 technologies:
•puzzle images/digital storytelling
flickr, CC
•del.icio.us collection
•video translation - writeboard, dotsub
•comments on voicethread
•tagcloud - wordle
•code of good practices on microblogs - writeboard
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Conclusions:
•Facilitating an entire online course or a part of a course on such a platform requires specific facilitation skills, and collaborative technologies knowledge; indicators analysis - factor for improving
•Cirip.ro has facilities to deliver successful and qualitative online courses and to enhance courses; the communication, authoring, monitoring, statistical facilities make Cirip.ro a modern free LMS.
•Participants gain important digital and communication skills, build PLE / PLN, continue to collaborate in community
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