Carmen Holotescu Politehnica University of Timisoara Director Timsoft
Gabriela Grosseck West University of Timisoara Romania
6th Conference on eLearning Applications, CairoJanuary, 10-12, 2009
AGENDA:Presentation Agenda:•Microblogging technology
•Microblogging platform Cirip.ro
•An online course
•Conclusions
RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007, microblogging-2008
Web2.0 / social networks have great impact
in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )
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
photo: http://www.heikkironkko.com/images/yolehti_jaiku.jpg
The best known microblogging services
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
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), presentations (slideshare, capzles, voicethread, flowgram), documents (pdf, doc,xls)
•feeds monitoring (from sites/blogs/social networks/seach).
Users
GroupsFeeds
PLE: users, groups, feeds
Interactions online, via ciripfox, SMS, mobile, IM, (MMS), API, twitter2cirip, rss2cirip
Text messages, images, audio, video (live), presentations, files
Profile
cirip2twitter, widget, export notes,
An online course about microblogging platforms
Investigations:
•integrate microblogging with other Web2.0 technologies
•microblogging platform as LMS
•course facilitation
Group news:
announcements
materials
Course elements:
announcements
materials
collaborative exercises
multimedia messages
Participation:
built PLNs
42 members:
students, teachers, developers, librarians
1100 messages
Collaborative exercises using different Web2.0 technologies:
•puzzle images - flickr, CC
•del.icio.us collection
•video translation - writeboard, dotsub
•comments on voicethread
•tagcloud - wordle
•code of good practices - writeboard
Conclusions:
• 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.
•Facilitating an entire online course or a part of a course on such a platform requires specific facilitation skills, and collaborative technologies knowledge.
•Participants gain important digital and communication skills, build PLEs, continue to collaborate in community
Future work:
• Tags will be implemented to classify notes and to organize the group messages in topics defined by the facilitator.
•Authors intend to develop a specification for evaluating students’ eportfolio and participation in courses run or enhanced by microblogging.
•Scenarios for using microblogging together with different collaborative technologies in formal and informal courses will be modelled using Educational Modelling Language.