academic use of microblogging
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Presentation at "Advances of Informatics and Earth&Cosmic Sciences" Graz/Austria/2010TRANSCRIPT
Acadmice Use of Microblogging
Martin Ebner
Academic Use of MicrobloggingMartin Ebner
Technology enhanced Learning
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u-Learninge-Learning
m-Learning
p-Learning
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Mobile Learning?
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„Hence, learning materials must be desinged for easy access by the nomadic learners during using mobile technology regardless of where they are located and which network
infrastructure they are using to access information“
Allen, 2007
Is microblogging a possibility for a specific community to exchange ideas, interests and
information?
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Microblogging is a small-scale form of blogging, generally made up of short, succinct messages, used by both users and
business to share news, post status updates and carry on conversations Templeton, 2008
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http://www.twitter.com
http://www.jaiku.com
http://www.pownce.com(down on December 15, 2008)
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http://www.plurk.comhttp://identi.ca/
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http://www.twitter.com
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What the hell is twitter?
- 140 character- from mobile, client or web interface- Followers- Direct messages- @Replies and Retweets- #Hashtags- Open API
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btw, thanks for the last slide to ...
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http://www.slideshare.net/mweller/twitter-microblogging-and-living-in-the-stream-presentation?type=powerpoint
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_ways_to_have_fun_with_twitter.php
Daily Chatter
Templeton, 2008
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CommunicatorReporter
Exchanger
Different kind of people using microblogs
Java et al, 2007
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http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/TwitterCycle
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Twitter ok, but how can we use it
for scientific conferences?
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Research outcomes
• ED-Media 2008
• Summer School 2008
• ED-Media 2009
• EduCamp 2010
• Grabeeter
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Academic Use of MicrobloggingMartin Ebner
Ebner, M., (2009) Introducing Live Microblogging: How Single Presentations Can Be Enhanced by the Mass, Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching (JRIT), 2 (1), p. 91-100, 2009
• ED-Media 2008
• Summer School 2008
• ED-Media 2009
• EduCamp 2010
• Grabeeter
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Research outcomes
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Twitter stream at conference (ED-Media 2008)
Academic Use of MicrobloggingMartin Ebner
Twitter stream at conferece (ED-Media 2008)
Academic Use of MicrobloggingMartin Ebner
54 Tweets using Hashtag #edmedia08
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„in the background we discussed things more
deeply than the guys on the stage“
„Twitter can be distracting - you pay less attention“
versus
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Reinhardt, W., Ebner, M., Beham, G., Costa, C. (2009) How People are Using Twitter during Conferences, Hornung-Prähauser, V., Luckmann, M. (Ed.), 5th EduMedia conference, Salzburg, p. 145-156
• ED-Media 2008
• Summer School 2008
• ED-Media 2009
• EduCamp 2010
• Grabeeter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/haagsuitburo/2342058525
Research outcomes
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Research Question:
Who is using Twitter at conferences and why?
Academic Use of MicrobloggingMartin Ebner
Question: Role of respondents at conferences
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Question: Purposes of using Twitter by attendes
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Communicating and sharing resources seem to be one of the most interesting and relevant ways in which one microblogs
Academic Use of MicrobloggingMartin Ebner
Ebner. M., Reinhard, W. (2009) Social networking in scientific conferences – Twitter as tool for strengthen a scientific, Workshop Science 2.0 for TEL, ECTEL 2009
• ED-Media 2008
• Summer School 2008
• ED-Media 2009
• EduCamp 2010
• Grabeeter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/haagsuitburo/2342058525
Research outcomes
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Twitter Community at ED-Media 2008
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Number of Tweets at ED-Media 2008
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UserHashttags
Key terms
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„... top trend makers show who is the heartbeat of this online community
and the key terms pointed out, what the community was talking about“
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Ebner. M., Mühlburger H., Schaffert S., Schiefner M., Reinhardt W., Wheeler S. (2010) Getting Granular on Twitter Tweets from a Conference and their Limited Usefulnessfor Non-Participant, N. Reynolds and M. Turcsányi-Szabó (Eds.): KCKS 2010, IFIP AICT 324, pp. 102–113, 2010
• ED-Media 2008
• Summer School 2008
• ED-Media 2009
• EduCamp 2010
• Grabeeter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/haagsuitburo/2342058525
Research outcomes
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Research Question:
Is Twitter proper to report from a conference in order to share the event
with the scientific community from outside the conference?
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Analyses of participants
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Categories of Tweets
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Detailed Analyes of Tweets
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Outcome:
If we reduce the tweets to those occurring during the conference
period (5th and 6th February) only 120 posts are of interest at all, which relates
to about 6%
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Practically, the obviously limited usefulness of the tweets of the EduCamp participants for interested external participants evokes new ideas for practical and effective alternative usage of the tweets as well as the need for appropriate tools.
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Mühlburger H., Ebner M., Taraghi B. (2010) @twitter Try out #Grabeeter to Export, Archive and Search Your Tweet, ECTEL 2010, Workshop Research 2.0, accepted, in print
• ED-Media 2008
• Summer School 2008
• ED-Media 2009
• EduCamp 2010
• Grabeeter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/haagsuitburo/2342058525
Research outcomes
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Research Question:
How must a web-based application that can also be used offline (without Internet connection) for information retrieval and knowledge discovery based on a micro-content system like
Twitter look like?
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http://grabeeter.tugraz.at
Academic Use of MicrobloggingMartin Ebner
Archive and
Searchoffline
Academic Use of MicrobloggingMartin Ebner
• Micro-content (tweets) is achievable due to the fact that any tweet can be retrieved at anytime from a local hard-drive
• Micro-content is storable in a way that the user can distinguish between different events
• Micro-content is searchable along keywords, hashtags, time frames as well as different entities (URLs, @, ... )
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Grabeeter allows ...
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Microblogging as potential for the future
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- if we see it as a newcommunication channel
Graz University of Technology
SOCIAL LEARNINGComputer and Information Services
Graz University of Technology
Martin Ebner
http://elearning.tugraz.at
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
Grab and Search your Tweets http://grabeeter.tugraz.at
Slides available at: http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
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