Social learning tools as a way to include students who are at home due to illness into collaborative discussions held in class. Twitter is an established micro-blogging service available to individuals with Internet access world-wide and provides unlimited access to social networks for its users, to send and receive messages. In 2006, it was funded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. One of the common site users is media outlets to broadcast current news updates. For this reason, people use Twitter as a daily source of information to inform themselves on local and world news. Another way that Twitter
Dorsey-Gray Literacy Foundation Participants write essays based on either one or two novels authored by the non-profit founder, Althea Dorsey Gray. The scholarship program is open to all high school seniors and college undergraduate and graduate students. An unspecified number of winners are chosen by a panel of judges consisting of current and retired teachers, criminal justice professionals, and graduate students. Dorsey-Gray Literacy Foundation The Dorsey-Gray Literacy Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c) organization based out of the Greater Washington, DC area founded in 2009. The foundation award scholarships every year to high school seniors and all college undergraduates/graduates. The mission of DGLF is