Blog about Twitter

Twitter and Blackboard are very different channels of communication. For starters, Blackboard discussion is only for CUNY students who are set in the class and allows students to center their focus on the subject topic. Posts on Blackboard are encouraged to be longer as opposed to twitter whose main criteria involve brief interactions of no more than 280 characters. Additionally, Twitter allows for a broader audience of interaction and engagement while blackboard discussions are centered on the students and their opinions. Within an in-class discussion, students are placed in a classroom setting where they each see others and interact in real-time and real life. The Twitter setting allows for outsider interaction which may broaden ideas of the students.  In the classroom setting, students are confined to learning from their current setting in comparison to endless sources of opinions on Twitter.