Twitter and Blackboard discussions are both useful tools for an in-class discussion. I have used Blackboard discussion boards for various classes and found it be a simple yet useful tool to share information with your teacher and classmates. However, a major drawback to Blackboard discussions is that it does not provide real-time notifications and alerts to people commenting on your post. On the other hand, Twitter allows for an option to send real-time notifications to the user for whenever something that you are following tweets or someone comments on your tweets. This real-time alert allows for more active discussion, almost as if the class were together in person. Also, Twitter does a better job of categorizing information under a common topic. For example, #3810NET1 combines all the tweets with this hashtag together so it would be much easier to find relevant information about this hashtags and its subcategories. Twitter's retweet, share, and like functions are also very useful in sharing and expressing your thoughts to be other people you may find relevant or would be interested.
Unfortunately, I have not added any new contents to a wiki page yet. However, I have been looking at other students contributions to other wikis and have seen the amazing results to some of those pages. Some of them caught my attention and one on gaming particularly. I intend to focus my topic on new media and video gaming. I will be focusing on how new media and technology have shifted the way we play and watch video games. I will be looking up statistics on revenue and user growth as well as the number of live video game streamers and viewers. I will be adding ideas about how electronic gaming has changed the way people view gamers and why it is treated as a competitive sport now. I intend to incorporate parts of my term paper into the wiki to talk about gaming blockchain technology and how it has created opportunities to gaming and streaming companies.
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