A platform of microblogging, special created for education: cirip.ro has lots of features, like groups (private or public), multimedia objects embedding in notes (ex. youtube videos, voicethread, slideshare, flickr images, audio and pdf files etc.), feeds monitoring etc.

1. USING MICROLOGGING TO DELIVER ONLINE COURSES CASE STUDY Carmen HOLOTESCU Politehnica University of Timisoara Manager Timsoft Gabriela Grosseck West University of Timisoara Romania World Conference on Educational Sciences, North Cyprus February, 4-7, 2009

3. RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007, microblogging-2008 Web2.0 / social networks have great impact in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )

4. Microblogging is a collaborative technology, a new form of blogging, with brief text updates of 140 characters, via Web, SMS, email, IM or 3th party applications - RT interactions between users

5. photo: http://www.heikkironkko.com/images/yolehti_jaiku.jpg The best known microblogging services

8. PLE/PLN: users, groups, feeds Interactions online, via ciripfox, SMS, mobile, IM, (MMS), API, twitter2cirip, rss2cirip Text messages, images, audio, video (live), presentations, files Profile cirip2twitter, widget, export notes,

10. Course elements: announcements materials as LOM/SCORM objects collaborative exercises multimedia messages built PLE / PLN