Cirip.ro - a microblogging platform for education
Cirip.ro is a microblogging platform specially designed for education: for sharing with peers, for projects, for courses enhancement, or for delivering entire online courses. Its facilities will be presented: * embed in notes: images, audio and (live) video files, presentations, pdf, doc, xls files; * private/public groups, * feeds monitoring; * statistics and visual representations: timeline, network, tagclouds for users and groups.
Author carmen13
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Cirip.ro is a microblogging platform specially designed for education: for sharing with peers, for projects, for courses enhancement, or for delivering entire online courses. It was launched in March 2008, and was developed by Timsoft.ro, a company specialized in eLearning and mobile applications.
http://www.cirip.ro/?lg=en
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The notes can be sent/monitored online, via IM, SMS, CiripFox ( a Firefox extension ), e-mail, API, and can be imported/exported to twitter, or imported from a feed. Any note can be edited / deleted.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/795233
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Multimedia objects can be embedded: presentations, audio, images, video, files, live video. This way, they become part of information/communication flow. The form to send a message contains all the needed information. A lot of presentations from educational social networks / applications can be embedded; the users learn about new social networks, which become part of their PLE/PLN. For a slideshare presentation, slideshare:doc_parameter should be provided.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/84104
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The url to a voicethread presention will display it.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/68158
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Also a capzles presention is displayed if the url is provided in the note.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/658956
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Specify the URL to a flowgram.com presentation to embed such an object.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/382149
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A presentation from photopeach.com is embedded if its URL is typed.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/874259
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The same, the URL of a notaland.com presentation is inserted, the object will be embedded.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/874616
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Presentations from authorstream.com are also embedded if authorstream:param_id (param_id found at WordPress embed) is specified.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/891896
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For online .mp3 files, the player is inserted if audio:url_mp3 is included in the note.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/773834
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Vocaroo.com player is inserted if a link to an audio registration on this site appears in a note.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/669596
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Audio clips from deezer.com, with deezer:clip_number.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/97711
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Audio clips from eok.ro, a social network for music sharing, with eok:clip_number - click to play, it's a wonderful song about winter and snow :)
http://www.cirip.ro/status/775649
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Audio clips from trilulilu.ro, with url.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/67122
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A link to a flickr image will display it.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/780669
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The same, an image from tinypic.com is displayed if the image url is provided.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/792893
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The url is provided for youtube video clips.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/54913
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The same, the url for a vimeo video clip,
http://www.cirip.ro/status/776526
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for a dotsub video clip,
http://www.cirip.ro/status/157092
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or for a seesmic video clip.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/783781
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For a video clip from veevo.ro, veevo:clip_number should appear.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/364808
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The link to an online .pdf, .doc, .txt. xls file will display it, using the free ajaxdocumentviewer.com viewer.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/707286
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You'll find also the button to send a live video mesage; the seesmic API is used for this.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/77631
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Now let's examine the sections of a microblog: here is mine. On the first page, the profile is displayed, with user description, microblog type, blog url. Also the activity on other networks as provideed by the FriendFeed account. The messages sent by the user in the public timeline but also in public groups can be browsed. For each microblog, the same for each group, the corresponding feed is provided - see at the page bottom.
http://www.cirip.ro/u/cami13
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The messages can be browsed using the corresponding timeline.
http://www.cirip.ro/u/cami13/timeline
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Which are the followed users, groups, the monitored feeds and the followers. See the search form on right - you can search in all messages, or in this user's. See also the statistics for this user below the search form.
http://www.cirip.ro/u/cami13/urmariti/0
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The whole network is visible - please see the legend at the bottom of the page. Roll out the mouse on an icon to see the interaction ( number of messages ) between the central user and that user, and also the most recent message sent by her/him. By clicking on an icon the corresponding network will appear, clicking on the link below icon will display the corresponding microblog/group.
http://www.cirip.ro/u/cami13/retea
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The Multimedia section displays a playlist with the eok.ro audio clips published by the user in notes. This section is planned to contain the original multimedia objects of that user - an eportfolio.
http://www.cirip.ro/u/cami13/multimedia/0
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Which are the words, links which appear more frequently in user's notes, also with which users she/he communicates often - can be found at Tagcloud section. Clicking on a term in tagcloud will display the notes which contain it. Please note that the tagcloud parameters can be modified. Again a very useful section speaking about the user's profile and activity.
http://www.cirip.ro/u/cami13/cloud
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Browsing the Recent page - Timeline - one can find interesting messages and follow the users who wrote them. The messages from public groups appear here too. A RSS feed for this page is provided.
http://www.cirip.ro/cirip/recente
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The Users page display all the users with their descriptions, in a chronological order or depending on the messages number. A complex Search form appears also, which gives you the possibility to select the users depending on their names, location, microblogging domain, and sex. When Logged in, for each user a Follow/Don't follow button is shown.
http://www.cirip.ro/cirip/ciripitori
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Here is an important and complex facility of the platform, which can be seen as a Ning for microblogging platforms. The existing Groups are displayed with their descriptions, in a chronological order. A complex Search form appears also, which gives you the possibility to select the groups depending on their names, type, domain, and moderator. When Logged in, any one can create a new group or join a group. The groups can be private or public, also open or with moderated join.
http://www.cirip.ro/grup/
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Groups can be used for projects, for workshops, for events/conferences, for courses enhancement, or for delivering entire online courses. Here is a public group created for a geek meeting. Please note the specific logo, the description, type, the external site/blog ( if any - in this case it is possible to import the feed items as group messages ), and the moderator name. The messages written by the groups members can be browsed. A RSS feed for the messages is provided. When Logged in, a button to join the group is provided. Also a group member can monitor the group/send messages online, or via IM, SMS, CiripFox ( a Firefox extension ), e-mail, API.
http://www.cirip.ro/grup/geekmeet1tm
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A group has a special section for announcements (Group News) - another original element of the platform, where the moderator can post notes and useful materials for the group activities. For a workshop/course here can be posted the materials, and links to online resources. Of course, part of the materials / contributions are the multimedia messages sent by the moderator / members.
http://www.cirip.ro/grup/geekmeet1tm/descriere
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The group members are displayed in this section. For each member, the total number of contributions in the group is listed.
http://www.cirip.ro/grup/geekmeet1tm/membrii/0
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The Network option shows a graphical representation for the group. Roll out the mouse on an icon to see the number of messages written by that user, and also the most recent message sent by her/him. By clicking on an icon the corresponding network will appear, clicking on the link below icon will display the corresponding microblog.
http://www.cirip.ro/grup/geekmeet1tm/retea
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The Tagcloud group section (present for any microblog too) allows interesting observations regarding the terms that appear most often in messages, the most active users, resources specified most frequently in group messages. Please note that the tagcloud parameters can be modified.
http://www.cirip.ro/grup/geekmeet1tm/cloud
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There are many educational groups on the platform, for projects, workshops, events, for courses enhancement, or for delivering entire online courses for universities or for LLL. Here is one of the papers presenting this experience.
http://www.cirip.ro/status/707286
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The Feeds page displays the feeds monitored by users, with their descriptions, in a chronological order. A Search form appears also, which gives you the possibility to select the feeds depending on their names / descriptions. When Logged in, for each feed a Follow/Don't follow button is shown. Any user has the posibility to subscribe to any search feeds or to feeds offered by sites / blogs / social networks – just like users and groups, feeds can be monitored online, by IM, e-mail, API, or by SMS. Let's underline the facility RSS to SMS.
http://www.cirip.ro/cirip/feeduri
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Here is the page corresponding to a blog feed. Please see the link to blog, the original RSS address, the statistics. For a feed the items are displayed only when logged in, so the search engines will not indexed its content.
http://www.cirip.ro/u/blog_shoutem_com
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On Top page, the users, feeds and groups appear ordered by different criteria; when the mouse is over a certain user/group/feed you can see their position in the other tops.
http://www.cirip.ro/cirip/topuri
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The most recent messages appear on Google Maps at Map ( see red pins ); messages from Romanian twitterers are also shown ( see blue pins ), to offer the possibilty to see the density and subjects discussed. Tagclouds for ciriposphere and twitosphere are diplayed also: which are the words, links, users which appear more frequently in notes. Clicking on a term in tagcloud will display the notes which contain it. Please note that the tagclouds parameters can be modified. Again a very useful section speaking about this community activity.
http://www.cirip.ro/cirip/map
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The Help page provides useful information.
http://www.cirip.ro/cirip/ajutor
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Also the blog presents news about facilities, activities - the notes will be translated in English very soon.
http://www.cirip.ro/blog
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Cirip is our PR and will give you any additional information. Not only @cirip, please use @cami13 or @cip anytime you need a clarification. Many other facilities exist, such as widget, notes exporting on blogs, bookmarklets.
http://www.cirip.ro/u/cirip
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Hope you'll become a part of our community on cirip.ro. Your comments / feedback here are also welcome. Thank you for watching this presentation.
http://www.cirip.ro/cirip/inregistrare