Blog about Twitter

A Twitter discussion can have some benefits to a blackboard discussion.  It is quite easy to find a conversation or a topic that you are looking for because of the hashtag method used by Twitter.  The hashtag link makes it easy to find an ongoing Twitter discussion that you can add your thoughts to and get instant feedback from.  However, Twitter gives you only 140 characters of space to write down your ideas so it can feel like your thoughts are incomplete and you don't have enough room to say what you want to say.  Blackboard can be beneficial in this way since there really isn't a limit to how much you write in a post.  I think an in-class discussion is the quickest way you get feedback opposed to the other methods since it is a face to face discussion.  However, people can feel like they do not have enough time to express their thoughts since you cant erase what you said before you say it like you can erase what you write before you post it on Twitter and Blackboard.