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Before being introduced to Twitter in the classroom, i used to believe that twitter was just another form of communication between individuals (like my space, facebook and msn) however it can also be used as an effective tool for sharing documents, pictures and other documents. Twitter can be used as a form of communication between teachers and students, and also teachers and parents. Whilst using twitter in the tutorial i found that whilst it can be an effective tool that is simpy to follow it is time consuming because it takes some time locating your 'friends' or students. Also it is hard for the teacher to supervise because students are able to communicate with eachother without the teacher being able to control what is being said. Therefore even though Twitter is great and simple to use as a form of communication i believe there are other programs that can be used in the classroom like google docs that allows students to communicate with each other but also where the teacher can supervise the conversation and ensure the classroom has a friendly work environment...