Blog about Twitter

After using both Twitter and BlackBoard to do the discussion about topics that we have in class, I notice there are some advantages and disadvantages on both sites.

            

First thing I notice is the word limit on Twitter. It can be a good thing or a bad thing depends on the situation. The word limit function definitely makes the tweets more concise and easy to read but it fails to provide each space for people to say all things they want in one tweet. On the other hand, we can write as much as we want on BlackBoard discussion.

          

However, Blackboard discussion is limited to our class only, meaning that only our classmates and the professor of this class can view the content we post on Blackboard. While on Twitter, we have the option to set it to private view only or share to the public.

            

In my opinion, it is more fun to tweet and retweet contents we want to share on Twitter. The process of doing it is much more interesting and people can get notified if they have the Twitter app on their phone. When we compare Twitter discussion and BlackBoard discussion to traditional in-class discussion, we can see that both the BB discussion and Twitter require a computer or smartphones in order to have access to the websites. Yet, in-class discussion gives a chance to talk face to face and have a more engaging learning environment. But then we will need to take note in class to record the stuff about the discussion, while online discussion stays on the web forever and we view and revisit anytime we want. Also, online discussion is more convenience in the way that when we want to make references to our information, we can easily insert links and pictures to give credit to the original author.