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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
castel
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
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
