Blog about Twitter

Our school provides an online platform in specific to enhance education, and one of the many functions is that it allows professors of online courses to hold an "in-class" discussion with fellow classmates, we named it BlackBoard. Now the question is, how is that differ from that of Twitter?

With Twitter, every post and every interactive comments can be grouped together using hashtag (#). And as I was scrolling through the posts by my fellow classmates, the list goes on to posts from previous courses that was using the same hashtag code. However, interactive comments on Twitter is less formal due to its limited characters for every posts, and the tendency to using informal language is higher because I tend to forget that it is related to a course.Whereas on BlackBoard, not only because it is meant to be a learning platform, in order to view a post or comment, it requires to take the step of clicking it and open it specifically. Unlike Twitter, it doesn't have a limited character for each post, so the materials and contents are written more formal and structured. To summarize, Twitter is more relaxed and it tends to be easier to make comments due to its easy to access and short texts. Whereas on BlackBoard, it takes longer time to do what we can easily do with Twitter. 

Having a class discussion online is very different from that of traditional in-class discussion. By shifting it online, we can track who says what, and students are more active to comments and more expressive. As oppose to in-class discussion, we can see that only those few who always interact with professors and the majority of the students in class tend to be more passive in comparison.