22 April 2009

Will Blackboard be the new Twitter?

Forget E-Mail: New Messaging Service Has Students and Professors Atwitter - Chronicle.com:
"Blackboard plans to add a Twitter-like messaging tool to its course-management system, which is used at hundreds of colleges around the country. The company recently announced plans to acquire NTI Group, a company that sells text-message notification systems to colleges for use in emergencies. NTI's systems don't have all the features of Twitter, but they could be used in similar ways."