Blog about Twitter

Twitter only allows 140 characters that it requires your sentences are precise to correctly express yourself. However, for word limits on Blackboard Discussion, I have no idea of exact word limits, but if Blackboard Discussion does have word counts, at least it's much more than 140 characters. There's an enough room for you to fully express your idea. In the Blackboard Discussion, which class and section you are from are pre-defined by the professor and you don't need to worry about your this identity. There's always a topic specified and you can create your own related sub-topic (thread). And it's easy just by clicking the "reply" button to make a response. But in the twitter, you have to follow specific rules for a group discussion. You need to put a remark to indicate which section and class you are in when you make tweets or replies each time in order for the professor and other students to recognize you. To response to a student on twitter, you have to use the @ symbol (the student's username you want to make a reply) to indicate you make a reply on his/her tweet. To re-post what someone had said on twitter if you don't reply right away, you can retweet, but you'll have to use RT @username< section you copied from the student's tweet that you want to make a reply >. You need to remember all these rules all the time, or your replies will be confused to the readers. Both Twitter discussion and Blackboard Discussion are made on the internet, a virtual world. Through words, sentences and tones, readers can imagine author's facial and body expressions, and then find out the original and correct meaning of the author. An in-class discussion, however, is a face-to-face environment. Nothing is more efficient than hearing a person's real voice and seeing his/her body language. If you misunderstand him/her or have questions, you can verify or ask right away and no need to guess the real meaning just by viewing a few sentences from the virtual discussion board, where there may be requiring more sentences to get the real answers. But then again, some people may prefer a virtual world, where they feel safer and can express more freely than in the reality.