Monday, March 15, 2010

Reflection on Twitter Discussion

After actually using it for a discussion, I can see plenty of pros and cons for Twitter as well as the Blackboard discussion board.

Twitter
Pros: Shorter posts means faster posts and less essays, condenses everything into what needs to be said without the fluff
Cons: Organization is hard even with the tags for both personal messages and messages to other people

BBDB
Pros: Everything is more organized and permanent
Cons: Slow, hasn't been used since the introduction assignment, inefficient design

I can see Twitter being used more often almost as a chatroom-substitute (although an actual chatroom would be much more efficient) for discussion of immediate topics while the BBDB would be better used for actual organization and long-term planning for entire projects.

The interface of the BBDB is annoying to use, though, so I would only use that as a planning area as a last resort if the wiki somehow stopped functioning and access to ANY other sort of forum software was impossible.

4 comments:

  1. it's really annoying to navigate through blackboard to the discussion

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  2. BBDB is very easy to navigate and use especially for projects and different assignments. But if you want just to chat, of course, Twitter rules.

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  3. I did not like the character limits. I had to rewrite sentences every post to fit the limit.

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  4. yeah BBDB its easy and simply to use.

    And something that bothers me about twitter sometime is the character limitation. Sometime its just hard to reply someone w only 140 letters.

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