Blog about Twitter

Twitter discussions compared to Blackboard discussions share similarities and differences.  The similarities are the concept of constant conversations. You can respond to a person's tweets or retweet their posts to have on your account. Within Blackboard you can reply to a person's post to share continuous ideas and see other response such as twitter. Another similarity is all posts are in one place, for discussion board you see all students responses within the thread. The differences are that the characters are unlimited for Blackboard opposed to twitters 140 character rule. Another difference is the freedom of topics, there are definite trends to follow and posts along with. But Blackboard discussions are structured in a specific day. In contrast with an in class discussions, those are different from the two completely. A face to face discussion between anybody is more genuine, where you can look at the person in their eyes as they speak and really listen rather than looking at a screen. There is more of a chance of several different discussions emerging.