1. The document describes a case study of using the microblogging platform cirip.eu to build personal learning environments (PLEs). 2. Key features of cirip.eu that support PLEs include public and private groups, importing messages from other social networks, multimedia embedding, and mobile access. 3. The authors analyze cirip.eu as a social network centered around user profiles and used to share learning objects, designs, and participate in groups. They provide an example of a group PLE conference on cirip.eu to facilitate communication and sharing in the domain of PLEs.

1. Anagramming PLE: Empowering Professional Learning through microblogging Gabriela GROSSECK (@ggrosseck) Carmen HOLOTESCU (@cami13) For the beginning: cirip.ro/plebcn/

2. HOW can a PLE be built, shaped and conceptualized on a microblogging platform? CASE STUDY: cirip.eu

5. (courses, trainings, projects, research, events, culture, art, music, languages, family, hobby, etc)

6. messages can be also imported from Twitter/Blogs

8. statistics, visualizations, tagsImages with CC from Lumaxart and crystaljingsr

9. Multimedia objects embedded audio images presentations polls (live) video mindmaps livestreaming documents Images with CC from Lumaxart and crystaljingsr

11. object-centric:

12. multimedia objects - part of communication-conversation flow, apps/SNs integration, opening to OER

13. meta-objects - learning design as mindmaps

14. social objects - groups http://tinyurl.com/gotocirip1

15. (H)Educational Microblog text messages, images, audio, video (live), RSS, presentations, files Livestreaming PROFILE PLN: users, groups, feeds interactions online, via ciripfox/ ciripgadget/ ciripAIR/FF Ubiquity, SMS, mobile, IM, mJava, API, twitter2cirip, rss2cirip cirip2twitter, widget, export notes on blogs Personal microblog used in HE, http://www.cirip.ro/u/Gabriela

16. Apps/mashups to monitor/update Cirip http://tinyurl.com/gotocirip2

17. Methodological framework source: http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/13912568

18. Anagram approach to PLE

20. Persistent

21. Relevant

22. Connecting / integrating

23. Mobile

24. Scalable

25. Open to OERs

26. Fiable

27. Distributed

28. Universal

29. Cirip.eu - social network of PLEsMindmap at http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908 embedded in the note at http://tinyurl.com/gotocirip3

30. Group PLE/PLE Conference on cirip.eu cirip.ro/grup/plebcn time capsule with messages in 140 characters sent byparticipants, practitioners, teachers , trainers, students and others interested in PLE, from twitter, cirip, blogs, SNs

32. to be a source of real-time information, connections with practitioners worldwide …

33. to offer access to all the group content, visualizations and statistics for future reflectionsThe first message in the group

35. 3600 messages

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38. Gabriela GROSSECK University of the West Timisoara http://www.cirip.ro/u/gabriela Twitter: ggrosseck Carmen HOLOTESCU University Politehnica Timisoara / TimSoft http://www.cirip.ro/u/cami13 Twitter: cami13 Thank you! live statistics + future reflections on PLE Conference cirip.ro/grup/plebcn