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Social Networking in scientific conferences - Twitter as tool for strengthen a scientific

community

Wolfgang ReinhardtUniversity of Paderborn

Martin EbnerTU Graz

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How could we make use of Science 2.0 opportunities for Technology Enhanced

Learning researchers??

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How can the micro-blogging tool Twitter be used on scientific conferences for e-Learning

scientists? !

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Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology - This means there is no technological revolution, it is

a social revolution.

web 2.0

Stephen Downes

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Todays users are working completely different, instead of mainly consuming

information from static webpages, they play an active role, they contribute, discuss and

share information around the globe.

web 2.0

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Communities in Twitter form by the common usage of a hashtag that is part of the

message.

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Surveys

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Backchannel

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Twitterwall

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Instant FeedbackAsk for Questions

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Use CaseED-MEDIA 2009

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TwitterVisBT allows making snapshots of the development of

a community on Twitter on a regular basis and analyzing the

contents of the respective communication of the community.

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ED-MEDIA is an international conference on “Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia &

Telecommunication”. The 2009 venue was Honolulu, Hawaii.

About 1.000 participants every year attend numerous sessions

and workshops for 5 days.

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Several hints to the Twitter stream were given beforehand the

beginning of the conference as well as at the conference.

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Outlook

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visualization of content and dynamics in the network

who is the heartbeat?

Hot topics

semantical analysis, RDF

Artefact-Actor-Networks!

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Steve Wheeler@timbuckteeth

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Hendrik Drachsler@HDrachsler

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Thank you

Wolfgang ReinhardtUniversity of Paderborn

Institute of Computer ScienceWorking Group Didactics of Informatics

http://ddi.upb.de