Monday, March 14, 2011
Blog about Twitter
Comparing Twitter discussion to Blackboard/in class discussion, the major difference between them is that by using Twitter, we can get instant notification to our email or even to our phone if we registered it. But for Blackboard discussion, they do not have that function. An advantage Blackboard has over Twitter is that Blackboard do not limit the amount of words we can put in one discussion/response, but Twitter sets a limit. If choosing between Blackboard and Twitter for discussion purpose, Blackboard might be a better tool. But if it is for interaction between friends or classmates, Twitter will be a better choice. Blackboard discussions seem to be more formal and to have a lengthy discussion, it is better to go with Blackboard instead of Twitter. For informal use, college students tend to like Twitter better because we can easily reply with Twitter and if download the Twitter App, we can easily reply with a click and I believed that it is more excited to use Twitter for small discussion. Twitter is more convenient as we can easily found out who tweeted us while for Blackboard discussion, we have to go back and forth to open replies one by one. Twitter can be use anywhere and any time if we have a smartphone but it's hard to do the same with Blackboard discussion. Twitter is simpler and easy to access to for small chats while Blackboard is more suitable to use for large and formal discussion. get full efficiency of our discussion, we can try to use both depending on our discussion subject.
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Blackboard definitely shows a formal and structured way of having discussions. I definitely can't see myself using blackboard for informal use between my friends. But it definitely is a great tool for online discussion between classmates or colleagues. Also, the direction technology is facing is amazing. Integrating our lives with apps in our phones is just one small step for whats in store for the future.
ReplyDeleteYea I agree, I think they should create a blackboard app, that you can link to your phone to notify you about comments, alerts, and grade postings. That would be a great idea!
ReplyDeleteI agree with how it's better to go with Blackboard instead of Twitter for discussion. I forgot to mention in my post on how there's a limit on character that you can put on a twitter post. When I first used twitter, I was really annoyed with the little amount of words I can put in one post.
ReplyDeleteI agree although blackboard is more formal and more "class/student appropriate", twitter is a much better fit for classmates and friends, eventhough its pretty cool that we use it in this class and its much easier to access.
ReplyDeleteI agree on the face that blackboard is more formal than Twitter because in Twitter you can use informal language and short abbreviations while blackboard uses the strict English structure we are accustom to using for stuff like papers.
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