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I downloaded Twitter my senior year of high school because the theater competition was going to post event winners on the twitter and update the event throughout the week. Since then, I use it to check on news and my friends who have moved away to college. I have also seen the negative side of twitter due to bullying or mass negative conversations. Today, the school of theater uses twitter to live tweet about the bi-semester "All School Forum. People post funny comments or opinions in live time with a hashtag.

Having a digital divide with students in the classroom is something that teachers tend to overlook. I got to see and example of this a year ago when I observed at FSUS. There was an in class assignment that a student didn't finish and she had to come up with a plan to come in early to class the next day and finish it due to not having internet set up in their house. This is something that I will take into account especially since I will end up teaching in a public school.

Academic software is a newer subject for me. I think in my classroom, one level of software will be dictated by the school itself. I have seen more and more schools turning to google classroom which will be a thing I use if it is implemented as a school wide resource. I would like to use Trello or the Remind texting app in my classroom because they are great with communicating with mass groups of people and keeping information organized.

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