Programme
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Arrival of participants
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On Thursday, at 8pm, we can have a first dinner together at a restaurant.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Location:
A01 Amphitheatre, West University of TimisoaraAddress: 4 Vasile Parvan Avenue, Timisoara, Romania
8:30-09:00 Registration - West University Timisoara - the Hall of A01 Amphitheatre
Welcome talks
09:00-09:10: Madalin Octavian Bunoiu (Vice-rector of West University of Timisoara, Romania)
09:10-09:20: Bogdan Patrut (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania) and Carmen Holotescu (University "Politehnica" of Timisoara, Romania): SMART 2013 - from a challenge to a success
09:20-09:30 Diana Andone (Director eLearning Center, University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) and Gabriela Grosseck (West University of Timisoara, Romania): SMART 2014 - dreams, expectations, hopes
Keynote speakers
09:30-10:00: Francesca D'Errico (Uninettuno University,
Rome, Italy): Horizontal Political Media 2.0. Beyond the "Psychology of Crowd" toward a socio-political Empowerment of being "follower"
10:00-10:30: Vaclav Stetka (Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic): Social media and citizen participation: new challenges for research
10:30-11:00: Charlotte Holland (Dublin City University, Ireland) - Learning Analytics Empowering learners within higher education
11:00-11:30: Tomaz Dezelan (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) - Political Communication and Social Media: Revolution or evolution?
Coffee break
11:30-12:00
Paper presentations
12:00-14:00
- Lenuta Ursachi, Elena Scutelnicu ("Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania) - A synergetic approach to the information literacy and social media
- Alexandru Topirceanu, Dragos Tiselice, Mihai Udrescu (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - The Fingerprint of Educational Platforms in Social Media: A Topological Study of Facebook Ego-Networks
- Dana Crăciun, Monica Oprescu, Mădălin Bunoiu (West University of Timișoara, Romania) - Facilitating a CLIL Approach for Science Education through Social Media
- Bogdan Nadolu (West University of Timisoara, Romania) - If the Facebook were a country. A sociological approach
- Alexandru Topirceanu, Cezar Fleseriu, Mihai Udrescu (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - Gamified: An Effective and Innovative Approach to Student Motivation Using Gamification
- Mihaela Stoica (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) - Are we prepared for social media? Case study: Romania
- Ioan Vlaşin, Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - The model of a competence development platform for primary and middle school students
- Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - Towards generative learning objects on microblogging platforms
Lunch
14:00-15:00 (catering in the hall of the A01 amphiteatre)
Paper presentations
15:00-16:45
- Mariana Cernicova, Adina Palea (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - Digital competences for PR specialists, seen through the lenses of online recruitment announcements. A view from Romania
- Simona Elena Varlan, Iulian Marius Furdu, Bogdan
Patrut (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania) - Social Internet of Things within Virtual Organizations – the key to success?
- Iulian Furdu, Bogdan Patrut, Simona-Elena Varlan (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Bacău, Romania) - Mobile notifier tool to enhance communication within learning
- Bogdan Patrut, Monica Patrut, Simona Elena Varlan, Iulian Furdu (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania) - Analysing political blogs using Political Analyst
- Cosmin Tomozei, Florinela Floria (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania) - (Inter)culturality expressions. Construction of ethnicity within
Blogosphere and Social Media
- Oana Barbu (West University of Timisoara, Romania) - Symbolic Communication in Social Media
- Diana Andone (Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania) - Social media in virtual mobilities
Coffee break
16:45-17:00
Books launches
17:00-17:30
- B. Patrut, M. Patrut, M. C. Missaglia, T. Dezelan, V. Stetka - Social Media in Politics: Case Studies on the Political Power of Social Media (Springer, 2014)
- C. Holotescu, G. Grosseck, A. Calvani, F. Bruni:
Microblogging in Educational Settings - How Microblogging Platforms Can Be
Used in Formal and Informal Education, AVM - Akademische
Verlagsgemeinschaft München
- G. M. Dragomir, L.-L. Todorescu (eds.): Repere in
evaluare, Editura de Vest, Timisoara
Round table / Free talks
17:30-18:30
Social Media in (Higher) Education. What's next? - moderators Gabriela Grosseck and Teodora Chicioreanu
Rount table
18:30-19:30
Taccle2 project: Teachers' Aid on Creating Content for Learning Environment - moderators Gabriela Grosseck & Laura Malita
Free time
19:30-20:00
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Gala dinner
20:00-23:00
It will be organized in Restaurant of Politehnica University Timisoara (Casa Politehnicii 1, Bd. Regele Ferdinand, No. 2 - near the Orthodox Cathedral). You can taste Recas wines and the Timisoreana beer.
Dr. Cristian Tzecu - Photo Hunting in the Himalayas (http://www.momente.ro/despre/)
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Romanian wines: and
Romanian food
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Location:
Senate Small Room, 1st floor, Rectorate Building of University Politehnica Timisoara
Address: Piata Victoriei Nr. 2, Timisoara,
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Keynote speakers
09:00-09:25: Martin Ebner (Graz University of Technology, Austria) - Interaction in Mass Education
09:25-09:45
Sandra Hofhues (Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Lake Constance, Germany), Ulrike Lucke (University of Potsdam, Germany),
Gabi Reinmann (Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Lake Constance, Germany), Mandy Schiefner-Rohs (Technical University in Kaiserslautern, Germany) - Inquiry-based learning and research-based teaching with (social) media
Paper presentations
09:45-11:15
- Jasmina Arsenijević (Pre-School Teacher Training College in Kikinda, Serbia), Milica Andevski (Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Serbia) - New Media Literacy in Educational Settings
- Anca Velicu (Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) - Social media use in and for schools: a transnational perspective
- Ileana Rotaru (University of Resita, Romania) - Always on – a perspective on the teacher’s perception of the professional media competence
- Teodora Daniela Chicioreanu, Catalin Amza (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) - Are Teachers Ready for the Augmented Reality?
- Marco Arrigo, Giovanni Fulantelli, Davide Taibi (Institute for Educational Technology National Research Council of Italy Palermo, Italy) - A mobile environment to support learning activities in the Social Semantic Web
- Silviu Vert (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - Linked Open Government Data for Smart City Applications
Coffee break
11:15-11:30
Paper presentations
11:30-14:15
- Carmen Holotescu (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania), Giles Pepler (Sero Consulting Ltd, UK) - Opening up education in Romania
- P. Sagaya Aurelia (Faculty of Education, Beniwalid, Libya), Durai Raj (Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India), Omer Saleh (Faculty of Education, Beniwalid, Libya) - Interactive location based mobile augmented reality as a geo-tagged story telling medium for digital journalism
- Ligia Moga (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - Social Media in Blended Learning
- Vlad Mihaescu (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - MOOC Openness - Are MOOCs as Open as They Should Be?
- Alin Speriusi-Vlad (West University of Timisoara, Romania) - How much can Intellectual Property Rules limit the information freedom, the right to education, the freedom of expression, the right to privacy and other civil rights: the relevant case-laws of the supreme courts of the E.U. and U.S.
- Diana-Maria Cismaru, Denisa Tudor (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - Social media as influence factors for collaborative innovation in organizations from the communication and PR field
- Marius Vasiluta Stefanescu (West University of Timisoara, Romania) - Challenges of implementing IT projects in SMEs in Timis County to increase the economic performance of the organization
- Augustin-Catalin Iapa (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - MOOC and Learning Analytics: interaction and evolution
- Rafael Leucuta, Radu Vasiu, Mihai Onita (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - Overview on the Techniques Used in Publishing Interactive Multimedia Materials
- Radu Vasiu, Diana Andone, Mugur Mocofan, Carmen Holotescu (Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania) - Using web 2.0 for higher education teacher training in Romania
Lunch (Restaurant of Politehnica University Timisoara (Casa Politehnicii 1, Bd. Regele Ferdinand, No.2 - near the Orthodox Cathedral))
14:15-15:15
Parallel events
15:15-21:00
A. Visit in Timisoara and trip in Timis county
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B. Virtual presentations
- Diana-Luiza Dumitriu (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - The social media trigger beyond sport-related public debates: the emergence of the #Halepmania phenomenon
- Dijana Capeska Bogatinoska, Aleksandar Karadimce (University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle” Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia) - Hybrid mobile frameworks: An overview
- Dmytro Zubov (University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle”, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia) - Global Scale Long-Term Forecasting System for Air Temperature Heat/Cold Waves’ Emergency Management: Internet’s Free Data Resources and Early Warning
- Antoanela Naaji, Anca Mustea, Cosmin Herman, Florica Faur, Cristina Mercea (“Vasile Goldis” Western University of Arad, Romania) - Acceptability of using social media in education compared with economic environment
- Carmen Violeta Popescu (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania) - Web 2.0 resources for teaching Matlab
- Costică Lupu (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania) - The efficiency of computer by Maple software, in the teaching and learning of geometry in space
- Mirela Danubianu, Adina Barala (“Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania) - Big Data vs. Data Mining for Social Media Analytics
- Dragoș – Cătălin Apostu (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - BrainRomania: A Collaborative Network for Academics and Researchers
- Ilya Levin, Andrei Kojukhov (Tel Aviv University, Israel) - Key issue: Teacher’s Awareness Regarding “Network Learner”
- Ioana Herbei/Mot (West University of Timisoara, Romania) - Accounting policies used in financial reporting by large companies and SMEs
- Janeta Simona Weisz (Christian University ”Dimitrie Cantemir”, Timisoara, Romania) - The impact of social media tools in education. Case Study: Social Network Facebook
- Laura Diana Radu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - Studying the social media initiatives in solving environmental problems
- Mircea Cricovean (West University of Timisoara, Romania) - Volunteering, an alternative source of indirect founding for religious establishments
- Nadia-Nicoleta Morăraşu, Luminița Drugă (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania) - Scholarly Identify Projections of Romanian humanities academics on social media platforms
- Niculae Sabin Mihai (University of Bucharest), Apostu Dragos Cătălin (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - Using online tools and social networks in facilitating collaborative learning and learning management in the academic environment
- Oana Barbu (West University of Timisoara, Romania) - Symbolic Communication in Social Media
- Petronela Savin (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania) - Experiential education by digitalizing the live food patrimony
- Elena – Mădălina Vătămănescu (National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - Facebok usage as a social documentation tool within the college admission procedure
- Raluca Silvia Ciochină (National School of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - Capitalizing on Collective Intelligence in the 2.0 Digital Era: Insights in motivations and digital skills factors
- Sebastian Fitzek (National School of Political Sciences and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - Populism, modern propaganda techniques and effects of negative campaign on Facebook
- Roxana-Mihaela Sirbu (University Politehnica Timisoara, Timisoara, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania), Oana Ramona Lobont (West University of Timisoara, Romania) - The implications of social media on sustainable development in Romania
- Livia Ştefan (Institute for Computers ITC SA Bucharest, Romania), Dragoş Gheorghiu (National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania) - 3D cyber-communities of learning. An immersive educational strategy for rural areas
- Virgil Stoica (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) - A Model of E-Government Performance in the European Union
- Versavia Ancusa (University Politehnica Timisoara) - Complex Network-Based Word Analysis in Academic Inter-personal Communication. A Case Study
- Viorel Guliciuc (“Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania) - Philosophy in the Age of Social Networking
- Mirella Mioc, Mircea Stratulat (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - Software simulation of a random navigation through web graph
- Carmen Holotescu (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania), Gabriela Grosseck (West University of Timisoara, Romania), Liliana Cismariu (RD Profil Consult, Timisoara, Romania), Vladimir Cretu (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - Working with Visual Impairment in Romanian universities. Designing for Social Media empowerment
- Maria A. Perifanou (Department of Italian Language and Literature, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Carmen Holotescu,
Diana Andone (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania), Gabriela
Grosseck (West University of Timisoara, Romania) - Exploring OERs and MOOCs for Learning of EU Languages
- Florenta Toader, Dorina Gutu (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - Voter Mobilization on Facebook. Data from the 2012 Romanian Parliamentary Elections and the 2014 Euro-parliamentary Elections
- Adrian Adascalitei (Technical "Gh. Asachi" University Iasi, Romania) - Teaching and Learning in Education Using ICT
- Malinka Ivanova (Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria), Carmen Holotescu (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania) - Adopting a MOOC program
- A. Stefan, Ioana Stanescu (Advanced Technology Systems, Targoviste, Romania), Ion Roceanu ("Carol I" National Defence University, Romania) - Serious Game Design: the social perspective
- Ionela Carmen Bosoteanu (University "Petre Andrei" Iasi, Romania), Adrian Netedu (University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iasi, Romania) - Political Communication in the Media and the Online Environment: Romanian Candidates in the European Elections
- Andrey Prokopenko (Н.S.Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine), Tatyana Oleinik (Н.S.Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine), Olena Leontieva (Н.S.Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine) - Formation of Information and Media Competence of Future Teachers in Educational Process of the Pedagogical University
- Monica Patrut (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania) - Twitter and the European Parliament elections in Romania
- Traian Botea (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania), Liliana Cismariu (RD Profil Consult, Timisoara, Romania) - Social media channels in organizational communication
- Liliana Cismariu (RD Profil Consult, Timisoara, Romania), Antonius Stanciu, Loredana Stanciu (University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania), Νіcоlеta Rохana Pоіana (Rоmanіan Pѕyϲhоlоgіѕt Ϲоllеgіum, Romania) - Social media strategy used by entrepreneurs in the context of economic crisis
- Alexandra Zbuchea (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania), Sabina Ștefănică (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania) - Facebook supporting student-university relationship development
- Νіcоlеta Rохana Pоіana (Rоmanіan Pѕyϲhоlоgіѕt Ϲоllеgіum, Romania), Liliana Cismariu (RD Profil Consult, Timisoara, Romania) - Non-suicidal self-injury and the influence of social media regarding anonymity in answers. A comparative study between Belgium and Romania
- Aurelia Ciupe, Serban Meza, Aurel Vlaicu (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - DidaTec LMS as a framework for task assignment through blended learning techniques
- Serban Meza, Bogdan Orza, Aurel Vlaicu (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - Higher education teacher training and lifelong learning in the emerging social media driven society
- Catalin Radu ("Carol I" National Defence University, Romania) -
Learning ecosystems and change in educational virtual environment
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Participants departure