Twitter Discussions
A twitter discussion allows peers to talk about an issue in a short and 140 character or less way. Twitter discussions allow for the joining in of multiple parties who feel they can add to the subject matter. Hashtags can lead to a greater volume of people seeing your tweets and giving their opinions. Also and probably most importantly Twitter now allows you to add gifs to the discussion. There is few better feelings then having a drop the microphone like comment on a Twitter conversation and being able to add a gif of a microphone dropping.
Blackboard discussions allow fora more extensive conversation about a topic however the people able to add to this conversation is limited to the people in a specific class. What blackboard lacks however is the ability to use the gif to emphasize your point you must purely rely on your wits alone to get across your point.
Finally is the in class discussion. since this class is completely online this class lacks the ability to do this. In life discussions are much easier to remember and you can get your point across more clearly. Class discussions like this allow for immediate back and forth, not allowing for people to really deeply think about their reply. Although this is my preferred form of discussion it does lack one thing, and that thing is GIFs.
In conclusion each type of discussions offers some pros and cons. A mix of all these discussions would make for a productive class.
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