Academic Use of Microblogging

Acadmice Use of Microblogging

Martin Ebner

Academic Use of MicrobloggingMartin Ebner

Technology enhanced Learning

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Mobile Learning?

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„Hence, learning materials must be desinged for easy access by the nomadic learners during using mobile technology regardless of where they are located and which network

infrastructure they are using to access information“

Allen, 2007

Is microblogging a possibility for a specific community to exchange ideas, interests and

information?

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Microblogging is a small-scale form of blogging, generally made up of short, succinct messages, used by both users and

business to share news, post status updates and carry on conversations Templeton, 2008

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Academic Use of MicrobloggingMartin Ebnerhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/1824234195

What the hell is twitter?

- 140 character- from mobile, client or web interface- Followers- Direct messages- @Replies and Retweets- #Hashtags- Open API




btw, thanks for the last slide to ...


http://www.slideshare.net/mweller/twitter-microblogging-and-living-in-the-stream-presentation?type=powerpoint




http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_ways_to_have_fun_with_twitter.php



Daily Chatter

Templeton, 2008

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CommunicatorReporter

Exchanger

Different kind of people using microblogs

Java et al, 2007




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Twitter ok, but how can we use it

for scientific conferences?

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Research outcomes

• ED-Media 2008

• Summer School 2008

• ED-Media 2009

• EduCamp 2010

• Grabeeter

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Ebner, M., (2009) Introducing Live Microblogging: How Single Presentations Can Be Enhanced by the Mass, Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching (JRIT), 2 (1), p. 91-100, 2009

• ED-Media 2008


• ED-Media 2009

• EduCamp 2010

• Grabeeter


Research outcomes




Twitter stream at conference (ED-Media 2008)


Twitter stream at conferece (ED-Media 2008)


54 Tweets using Hashtag #edmedia08

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„in the background we discussed things more

deeply than the guys on the stage“

„Twitter can be distracting - you pay less attention“

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Reinhardt, W., Ebner, M., Beham, G., Costa, C. (2009) How People are Using Twitter during Conferences, Hornung-Prähauser, V., Luckmann, M. (Ed.), 5th EduMedia conference, Salzburg, p. 145-156

• ED-Media 2008


• ED-Media 2009

• EduCamp 2010

• Grabeeter


Research outcomes




Research Question:

Who is using Twitter at conferences and why?


Question: Role of respondents at conferences


Question: Purposes of using Twitter by attendes


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Communicating and sharing resources seem to be one of the most interesting and relevant ways in which one microblogs




Ebner. M., Reinhard, W. (2009) Social networking in scientific conferences – Twitter as tool for strengthen a scientific, Workshop Science 2.0 for TEL, ECTEL 2009

• ED-Media 2008


• ED-Media 2009

• EduCamp 2010

• Grabeeter


Research outcomes




Twitter Community at ED-Media 2008


Number of Tweets at ED-Media 2008


UserHashttags

Key terms


„... top trend makers show who is the heartbeat of this online community

and the key terms pointed out, what the community was talking about“

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Ebner. M., Mühlburger H., Schaffert S., Schiefner M., Reinhardt W., Wheeler S. (2010) Getting Granular on Twitter Tweets from a Conference and their Limited Usefulnessfor Non-Participant, N. Reynolds and M. Turcsányi-Szabó (Eds.): KCKS 2010, IFIP AICT 324, pp. 102–113, 2010

• ED-Media 2008


• ED-Media 2009

• EduCamp 2010

• Grabeeter


Research outcomes




Research Question:

Is Twitter proper to report from a conference in order to share the event

with the scientific community from outside the conference?


Analyses of participants


Categories of Tweets


Detailed Analyes of Tweets


Outcome:

If we reduce the tweets to those occurring during the conference

period (5th and 6th February) only 120 posts are of interest at all, which relates

to about 6%


Practically, the obviously limited usefulness of the tweets of the EduCamp participants for interested external participants evokes new ideas for practical and effective alternative usage of the tweets as well as the need for appropriate tools.

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Mühlburger H., Ebner M., Taraghi B. (2010) @twitter Try out #Grabeeter to Export, Archive and Search Your Tweet, ECTEL 2010, Workshop Research 2.0, accepted, in print

• ED-Media 2008


• ED-Media 2009

• EduCamp 2010

• Grabeeter


Research outcomes




Research Question:

How must a web-based application that can also be used offline (without Internet connection) for information retrieval and knowledge discovery based on a micro-content system like

Twitter look like?


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Archive and

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• Micro-content (tweets) is achievable due to the fact that any tweet can be retrieved at anytime from a local hard-drive

• Micro-content is storable in a way that the user can distinguish between different events

• Micro-content is searchable along keywords, hashtags, time frames as well as different entities (URLs, @, ... )


Grabeeter allows ...




Microblogging as potential for the future

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- if we see it as a newcommunication channel

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Graz University of Technology

SOCIAL LEARNINGComputer and Information Services

Graz University of Technology

Martin Ebner

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http://elearningblog.tugraz.at

Grab and Search your Tweets http://grabeeter.tugraz.at

Slides available at: http://elearningblog.tugraz.at

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Academic Use of Microblogging