Cirip.eu:

Microblogging Platform for Formal and Informal Learning Carmen Holotescu Gabriela Grosseck

University Politehnica/ Timsoft West University

Timisoara, Romania

EDEN 2013 Synergy Workshop Budapest, Hungary, 19-21 October 2013

#synergy

Microblogging as a new trend in education Cirip.eu – platform around

objects2.0/smLMS (Mobile) Learning contexts on

Cirip.eu Formalizing PLE Learning designs as meta-

objects

Please check BoP - page 31

image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/atmosphear/

What is Microblogging?

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 technology photo: 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 2008 Dec 2007 Mar 2008

Overview of the Microsphere Timeline

Sep 2008

4 platforms in Tops 100 Tools for Learning 2009-2013: Twitter, Cirip, Yammer, Edmodo

http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/ 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

- 120,000 users

- interface in Romanian, English, German

- Finalist at Seedcamp Zagreb, Jan 2010

- In Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

- Nominations for: - "UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for

the Use of ICTs in Education”, April, 2012;

- “Innovative Education Award”, WCES 2013, Rome, 5-8 February.

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, assessment.

Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

Facilities Cirip.eu (2)

social network around multimedia objects

multimedia objects embedded in messages (part of the communication flow, created/recreated, openess to (small) OERs - Weller, Martin (2010)):

- livestreaming,

- images (flickr, tinypic),

- audio (eok, trilulilu, deezer, blip.fm, vocaroo, mp3),

- (live) video (youtube, dotsub, vimeo, screencastle, screenjelly, screenr,

220.ro, myvideo),

- presentations/learning design (slideshare, capzles, voicethread, flowgram,

photopeach, picasa,

notaland, prezi, diagrammr, mindomo, mindmeister, spicynodes),

- documents (odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt, google docs/forms/spreadsheets)

Mobile learning features

On technological level create, localize and join mobile groups access social media and open educational resources share opinions work collaboratively on multimedia objects participate in polls and quizzes receive/send updates via SMS create and manage mobile PLEs; recover password via SMS.

On pedagogical level develop multimedia educational resources / learning objects by using mobile technologies specific for different subject areas, build mobile social learning environments engaging students in PBL, case studies, and collaborative projects capture and formally represent experience and new pedagogical approach as learning design objects - shared, discussed, validated, improved, and reused.

information and knowledge management

courses enhancement

delivering entire online courses for universities/schools/companies

learning from the stream

collaborative projects in universities

communities of practice

ePortfolios

social mobile LMS

MOOCs.

Personal Learning Environments ( Networks ) - PLE/PLN

Educational uses

Users

Feeds

Social networks

Learning contexts on Cirip.eu

Course materials in a dedicated group:

•announcements

•materials as LOM/SCORM objects

•multimedia messages

Course elements:

announcements

modules - LOM/SCORM objects

collaborative exercises

learning from the stream

multimedia messages

specific features for running MOOCs

Cirip as a social

network of smLMS (social mobile LMS)

polls/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f)

validations - interactions with users/experts/

groups

Formalizing PLE on cirip.eu

Mindmap at http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908 embedded in the note at http://www.cirip.ro/status/11937282

Continuos

Persistent

Relevant

Connecting / integrating

Mobile

Scalable

Open to OERs

Fiable

Distributed

Universal

Cirip.eu - social network of PLEs

cirip.ro/grup/lds

Activating in Learning Design group

Thank you!

Carmen Holotescu

cirip.ro/u/cami13

twitter.com/cami13

Gabriela Grosseck

cirip.ro/u/gabriela

twitter.com/ggrosseck

Looking forward to find synergies/possibilities to collaborate in future projects focused on:

• Learner support (with the use of ICT)

• Open Educational Resources and their use in education

• Teacher training (communities of practice)