This is a presentation (a draft one!!!) for the workshop "Using microblogging in education" , held in Villach, Austria, between 23-25 Sept. 2009, at ICL Conference, http://www.icl-conference.org/

1. icl09ws05 USING MICROBLOGGING in EDUCATION Carmen Holotescu & Gabriela Grosseck ICL2009 Conference, 23-25 sept. Villach / Austria http://www.icl-conference.org/

5. RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007, microblogging-2008/2009 Web2.0 / social networks have great impact in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 ) photo: http://es.onsoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/web20-redsocial.jpg

6. Enhancing teaching & learning using Web2.0 technologies from Handbook of Emerging Technologies in Education: George Siemens, Peter Tittenberg (pg.34) ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/etl

8. http://personas.media.mit.edu/

10. A collaborative definition of microblogging generated by oamos.com embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1645201

11. Microblogging is a new form of blogging, with brief text updates of 140 characters, via Web, SMS, email, IM or 3th party applications, which allows RT interactions between users.

13. Diagrammr at diagrammr.com/edit?key=dy4NKMc8XsZ embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1644841

14. photo: http://www.heikkironkko.com/images/yolehti_jaiku.jpg Microblogging platforms used in education

15. Mar 2006 Oct 2007 Jan 2008 Sep 2008 Jul 2008 Dec 2007 Mar 2008 Overview of the Microsphere Timeline Elizabeth Koh, An overview of microblogging, http://www.slideshare.net/elizabethkoh/an-overview-of-microblogging , slide 16

17. MICROBLOGGING PLATFORMS

19. Twitter Educational uses: Classroom community Collaboration Project Management Assessing opinion Conference / research Virtual classroom Learning experiences Personal Learning Network Reference services

20. A video clip about twitter at dotsub.com embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1644958

28. 5000 users interface in Romanian, English, German Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in eLearning and mobile applications

29. Mindmap at mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908 embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1629920

31. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandemia/354115976/sizes/l/ Classroom community Collaboration Project Management Assessing opinion Conference / research Virtual classroom Learning experiences Personal Learning Network Exploring the language Reference services good points:

32. distr acting time -consuming rude ad dictive no social educational value bad grammar skills privacy spam meaningless without a network bad points http://www.flickr.com/photos/80578657@N00/254923630/sizes/o

34. A slideshare presentation about collaboration on microblogging, embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1610057

35. A photopeach presentation for microblogging metaphors, embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/874542

37. 5000 users interface in Romanian, English, German Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in eLearning and mobile applications WS group: http://cirip.ro/grup/icl09ws05

39. Facilities Cirip.eu (2) multimedia objects embedded in messages (information/communication flow): - 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 ), - documents ( odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt ) Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

40. Who are you? Use multimedia object to describe yourself (blip.fm, youtube or vimeo)

41. information and knowledge management courses enhancement delivering entire online courses collaborative projects in universities communities of practice ePortfolios. Personal Learning Environments ( Networks ) - PLE/PLN Educational uses Users Grupuri Feeds Social networks

42. PLN: users, groups, feeds interactions online, via ciripfox/ ciripgadget/ ciripAIR/FF Ubiquity, SMS, mobile, IM, mJava, API, twitter2cirip, rss2cirip messages, images, audio, video (live), presentations, files profile livestreaming cirip2twitter, widget, export notes on blogs

44. Course elements: announcements modules - LOM/SCORM objects collaborative exercises multimedia messages poll/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f) validations - interactions with users/groups

45. Participation: built PLNs 42 members: students, teachers, developers, librarians 1100 messages

49. Indicators : (mindmeister.com) Popularity Influence Coagulation index Exposure index Geographical distribution Temporal distribution Online social presence Rating (RT) Notoriety (favorite) Sharing (Link) Intimacy Spa Mood Language Connections/comunication PLE/PLN relevance ePortfolio http://www.scribblepad.co.uk/images/4412.jpg

50. WCES 2009, 4-7 Feb., North Cyprus University WHAT do our students NEED?

51. WS group: http://cirip.ro/grup/icl09ws05 photo: http://digilander.libero.it/ali_di_raso/Senza%20nomej.bmp

52. Please let us know your opinion at cirip.ro/sondaj/25 . Thank you!