Best practices with cirip.eu - paper to be presented at WCES, 2010, www.wces2010.org Microblogging is considered the Web 2.0 technology of 2009 with more and more users from various domains taking interest in it. Using applications like Twitter, Plurk, Edmodo or Cirip.eu, microblogging has become one of the first words associated with Web 2.0 as far as online social interactions, conversational discourse, communication and/or collaboration through social networks are concerned, but among the last that educational actors take into consideration. In this paper the authors aim to examine closely how microblogging can contribute to improve the educational process through teaching methods which are closer to the way of thinking of students. Thus, among others methods like teaching with questions, discourse, didactic conversation, e-portfolios, projects, teaching with collaboration or academic controversy etc., it will be discussed how a teaching method based on multimedia objects can be used in a clear and straight manner in the micro-lectures carried out on the microblogging platform cirip.eu by the authors, in formal (university) as well as informal (continuous adult education) contexts.

1. World Conference on Educational Sciences WCES 2010 4-8 February 2010, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul Turkey cirip.eu GabrielaGROSSECK and Carmen HOLOTESCU Best practices of Microblogging Multimedia-Based Teaching Methods

3. Features of microbloggingPlatformcirip.eu

4. Educational uses of Cirip

5. Teaching with multimedia objects

7. http://www.cirip.ro/status/1645201 http://www.cirip.ro/status/1644841

9. interfacein Romanian, English, German

10. included inTop 100 Tools for Learning

14. courses enhancement

15. delivering entire online courses

16. collaborative projects in universities

17. communities of practice

18. ePortfoliosMindmap at http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908 embedded in the note at http://www.cirip.ro/status/1629920

20. any image by URL any mp3 file Personal Learning Multimedia Microblog P.L.M.M. files: doc, xls, pdf …

22. Gabriela GROSSECK University of the West Timisoara http://www.cirip.ro/u/gabriela Carmen HOLOTESCU University Politehnica Timisoara http://www.cirip.ro/u/cami13 Thank you!