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Our students use their mobile phones and computers almost every day. We may use them to check out the classroom materials or use them to open the PPT and PDF texts of the teacher’s post and use them for course study or we have problems when we write homework. I often use Google to collect and get more help because it is the fastest and most convenient way to go to help. If we can’t find any useful information, we will contact us through Facebook or Wechat. It’s also important for friends to discuss and ask for help, so we need to use the resources around us. The social media play an important role, and it helps us to learn, to discuss, and easy to connect to classmates.

In my first-year and second-year course, I often use Wechat and google to help me to learn. During this time google and Wechat became my most important part of school life, if without them I may not able to pass the course. In most of the first and second year of the course, it is a personal assignment, so we only need to discuss those difficult questions with friends. Most of the time, the individual is finished, and in the third and fourth years, many courses change. As a group work, so we have more interactions, so social media becomes more important.

The one I use most in the general course is Google doc because it can share files to several people so we can write or modify a job at the same time. So Google doc is a good tool for teamwork, for example, we complete a project. After that, we need to write a report and then our team will work together to use Google doc to complete the assignment. This will be more convenient and faster because we don’t need to meet together. We do it at home by using the network.

I am a computer science student, writing code is my real homework to a 300-level or 400-level course. We need to write a lot of group projects. So we usually use GitHub to complete these projects. GitHub is one for Commonly developed open source tools, we will clone a folder so if someone pushes something new we can see it and it will have a record. Once we make a mistake, we can revert to the previous version.

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