Blog about Twitter

A Blackboard discussion compared to a Twitter discussion will probably be a lot more formal. On Blackboard students might choose to type in a more professional manner, using proper punctuation and grammar. In a Twitter discussion the tweets would be more casual. Students will probably use more slang in their tweets, less grammar, hashtags and will use more abbreviations such as "lol" and "imo" to accomodate for the 140 character limit in tweets. A real life discussion compared to Twitter might have a lot less participants in my opinion. In a real life discussion there might be shy students that will be intimidated by the amount of other students in the class and will be reluctant to participate, whereas on Twitter (or on Blackboard) they will be more open to voicing their opinion without the fear of anyone judging them.