Building PLE on microblogging platforms

Building PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTSon Microblogging Platforms

Carmen Holotescu Gabriela Grosseck University Politehnica/ Timsoft West University

Timisoara, Romania

Summer Camp "Informatics at Castle", Macea August, 31, 2011

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HOW a PLE can be built, developed and

conceptualized on microblogging platforms?

CASE STUDY: cirip.eu

New trends in education What is PLE? What is microblogging?Overview of the

microspherePLE on twitterPLE on cirip.euFormalizing PLEStudents, teachers,

researchers perspective on PLE on microbloggingWhere do we learn

more?

SOCIAL LEARNING becomes formal

RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007microblogging-2008-2011, augmented realitylocation based applications - 2010-2011

Web2.0 / social networks have great impact in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )

JESS3 Labs The Geosocial Universe 2.0Comparison between the total amount of registered users with the percentage of

people accessing the sites via mobile http://jess3.com/geosocial-universe-2

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/

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

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

INTRODUCTION TO MICROBLOGGING

What is it? And why should I care?

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 technologyphoto: 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 2008Dec 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

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

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

The most popular microblogging system

Launched in July, 2006

Robust, elegant and simple

More than 200 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 PLE uses:Classroom communityCollaboration Project ManagementAssessing opinionConference / research Virtual classroomLearning experiences Personal Learning Network Reference services

- 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

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, diagrammr, mindomo, mindmeister, spicynodes), - documents (odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt, google docs/forms/spreadsheets)

information and knowledge managementcourses enhancementdelivering entire online courseslearning from the streamcollaborative projects in universitiescommunities of practiceePortfoliossocial LMS.

Personal Learning Environments ( Networks ) - PLE/PLN

Educational uses

Users

Feeds

Social networks

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.

Formalizing PLE on cirip.eu

Mindmap at http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908embedded 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

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

Workshop group: cirip.ro/grup/co11

Where can we learn more?

cirip.ro/grup/plebcnLearning 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

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

cirip.ro/grup/ldsActivating in Learning Design group

Thank you!

Carmen Holotescucirip.ro/u/cami13

twitter.com/cami13

Gabriela Grosseckcirip.ro/u/gabriela

twitter.com/ggrosseck