The document discusses microblogging and its uses in education. It provides an agenda for a conference on this topic, including an introduction to social media and learning, definitions and examples of various microblogging platforms, and potential educational applications. Examples of how microblogging can be used include facilitating online courses, collaborative projects, and building personal learning networks.

1. ITFest'10 Introduction to Microblogging in Education Carmen Holotescu & Gabriela Grosseck ITFest 2010 - http://itfest.20/ Conference group - http:// cirip.ro/pro/itfest

4. SOCIAL MEDIA / LEARNING A short introduction

5. RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007, microblogging-2008/2010, augmented reality/localion based applications - 2010 Web2.0 / social networks have great impact in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )

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/

9. INTRODUCTION TO MICROBLOGGING What is it? And why should I care?

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.

12. Microblogging is a collaborative technology

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 4 platforms in Top 100 Tools for Leaning 2009: Twitter, Cirip, Yammer, Edmodo Jul 2008 Dec 2007 Mar 2008 Overview of the Microsphere Timeline

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

22. a social journal for your life; a right-to-left scrolling “timeline” photo: http:// friendfeed.com/robingood „ My Plurk line, for me, is a broadcast medium - I want to put a message out there and share some information and to do that I need to keep the line clear for people to read and respond to. I'm not looking to gather information from other people there (have so many other places where I already do that). ” Nick Peackey

23. only 10 minutes to setup the own microblogging network useful for those devoted to a particular niche a customizable and easy-to-use community space sharing photos, files, links, locations and much more through a well known microblogging interface „ We’ve all known it was coming, it was just a matter of time. Well, it has finally arrived and I’m thrilled to say that it was worth the wait. ShoutEm is a create-your-own-Twitter platform that works just as easily as Ning does. ” Steve Dembo photo: http://teach42.shoutem.com/

28. 11000 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

30. brainstorming ideas – please add your thoughts Scribd paper: Can we use Twitter for educational activities? HOW MICROBLOGGING CAN IMPROVE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

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

36. 11000 users interface in Romanian, English, German In Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 SeedCamp Zagreb, Febr, 11, 201 Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in eLearning and mobile applications Group: cirip.ro/pro/itfest

38. 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

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

40. 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

41. 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

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

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

48. 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

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

50. Group: cirip.ro/pro/itfest

51. Please let us know your opinion at http://www.cirip.ro/sondaj/294 . Thank you!