Twitter Compared to a Blackboard discussion, Twitter is both limiting in some ways. With the 139 character limit to posts, it hinders the user from completely expressing what they are trying to say. On the other hand, the ability to directly tweet someone with the @ feature and the ability to have followers who will see your tweets in their feed allow others to see your posts easier. Compared to a classroom discussion, I think Twitter can't compare. There is no social media interaction that can compare to a face to face conversation. While we can't share videos or images in a classroom discussion, pulling it up on a computer is easy. For these reasons I believe a classroom discussion is by far superior a Twitter discussion.
Blogs vs Wikis Blogs and Wikis are both part of the New Media era of information management and distribution. Both can be equally useful in the collaboration of ideas and sharing of information. The main difference between these two types of new media platforms is that Wiki posts can be created and edited by all of the users on the platform, whereas a blog post can only be created by one person and the other users can only comment and discuss. Therefore information is more static in a blog and more dynamic in a Wiki. A post in a blog is usually created and not often edited afterwards but opinions and inputs are added onto the comments, giving a variety of insights. In a Wiki, the main post is usually edited often to provide the most up to date and accurate information making the post a good source of information but there isn't a variety of individual insight rather a collective summary.
Comments
Post a Comment