Twitter, BlackBoard Discussion and in-class discussion are pretty similar. There is a conversation going on to express your ideas. The difference is the timing of the feedback you receive and the amount of people who receives the message you are trying to convey. You can get feedback from the millions of people on Twitter rather than just the limited amount of people in the class. It is also more convenient to use Twitter since mostly everyone has immediate access to the internet with the use of smart phones now a day. It is just a click away to get into Twitter rather than many clicks and pages to get into BlackBoard discussion which most students don’t bother using unless they have to for class. And of course you would have to physically be in class to have an in-class discussion otherwise it wouldn’t work. I would think that people would rather like accessibility of Twitter. However, some people may just blabber about useless nonsense.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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Hehe, now I catch your points. Compared to a physical in-class environment, there are students preferring using network to avoid to go to school. However, as to a group discussion itself, I like the efficiency from in-class discussion (virtual discussion can be efficient somehow, but it's based on everybody present on the same page), as well as the interpersonal communication/atmosphere that the virtual world cannot bring. Virtual Blackboard discussion does not have time limit unless the professor sets the deadline. But Twitter discussion is time sensitive, otherwise we'll have to sacrifice the whole 140 characters to use retweet function.
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