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BoloTweet: A Micro-Blogging System for Education

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Micro-blogging has become a popular activity nowadays thanks to Twitter. However, micro-blogging is more than a commercial product. There exist free software implementations of the same principles. This work introduces Bolotweet, which is built on top of one of these free software platforms. It is oriented towards enabling an effective teacher-student interaction. The tool offers services for the teacher in order to quick evaluate student progress and assess the lessons’ apprehended concepts. Students gain a way of sharing conclusions about what has been learnt, and review concepts presented along the lesson. This paper introduces improvements made to this tool and some experience on its use with real students as well as new experimental data.

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  1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz, Álvaro Ortego & Juan Pavón

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  1. Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz
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  2. Álvaro Ortego
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Correspondence to Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz .

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Linnaeus University Department of Computer Science, Växjö, Sweden

    Mauro Caporuscio

  2. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca Departamento de Informática y Automática, Salamanca, Spain

    Fernando De la Prieta

  3. Dip. di Ingegneria e Sci. del.info.mat, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila Dip. di Ingegneria e Sci. del.info.mat, 67100, Italy

    Tania Di Mascio

  4. Computer Science Faculty, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Computer Science Faculty, Bolzano, Italy

    Rosella Gennari

  5. ETS Ingeniería Informática, University of Sevilla ETS Ingeniería Informática, Sevilla, Spain

    Javier Gutiérrez Rodríguez

  6. Med cli, San pub,Sci.del vita e del amb, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila Med cli, San pub,Sci.del vita e del amb, L'Aquila fraz. Coppito, Italy

    Pierpaolo Vittorini

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Gomez-Sanz, J.J., Ortego, Á., Pavón, J. (2016). BoloTweet: A Micro-Blogging System for Education. In: Caporuscio, M., De la Prieta, F., Di Mascio, T., Gennari, R., Gutiérrez Rodríguez, J., Vittorini, P. (eds) Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 478. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40165-2_6

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