Microblogging is a web service that enables people to broadcast short messages to other subscribers/followers of the service. Microblogging can consist of many forms of media including text, audio and visual and can be made public on the web or restricted to a private group of subscribers.
Microblogging has a huge appeal due to its immediacy and portability. The various popular Microblogging services such as Twitter and Jaiku can be accessed from multimedia devices such as laptops and mobile phones; therefore the typical blog would be of around 140-200 characters.
Microblogging can aid learners; Twitter users can interact with their learning community allowing them to share information with their fellow students outside the classroom who they may not usually interact with. emthreeproject.blogspot.com/
A further example of Microblogging aiding learners is the example of Edmodo. A tool used only for education allowing students to interact with teachers outside the classroom. http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=403
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Stuart Mellish