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My name is Kayla Snell. I will be a senior at FSU in the fall. My major is education and I plan on attending grad school after I graduate next spring. I have wanted to become a first-grade teacher ever since I realized how much of an impact teachers have made in my life.

 Technology has always come fairly easy to me since our generation has grown up in it. I have been using Microsoft technologies since middle school. I have taken two computer classes. Since reading the syllabus, I see most of the software we will be using are softwares I have used in the past.

 I hope to learn how technology is very beneficial to education. I am not a huge fan of technology being used in the classroom a lot so I hope this course can change my mind on it. I would also like to learn how technology is created for teachers to improve students' education.

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