1. Twitter Assignment:
Eric Sheninger @NMHS_Principal
From following Eric’s tweets on twitter he is a published book author and recently has been talking a lot
about his DigILead and the people who have been giving him support. Twitter is a great way to get your
work out on the interent and for people to read it. He is obviously very for using technology in the
classroom and in his school. He was a National Digital Principal Award winner in 2012. He retweets
things that are for education and it concerns not only the students but also teachers and how they can
improve. The most shocking thing that I followed from his tweets was reading about Minecraft and what
it can teach kids. I also had the chance to read one of his blogs; Education Reform is Destroying
Childhood as we know it. He emphasizes on his great childhood that he had, going outside and playing
doing maybe an hour of homework a night, and how the teachers engaged him in his learning which
made learning fun to him. Now a days the education reform is ruining our childhoods, with hours of
homework on material we spent all day in school learning and the big factor of standardized testing,
because that’s all teachers prepare students for is the ACT, SAT things that colleges hardly look at, it has
to do more with GPA. The standardized test don’t tell the whole story about a student. He has blogs and
retweets good articles worth reading.
Steven Anderson @web20classroom
Following Stevens tweets he uses a lot of collaborative information. He likes to retweet and post things
that many people can be involved in like the vzedchat to discuss with teachers about mobile use in
schools. He posts about polls and voting on certain things. One thing I noticed is that although he is a
teacher and educator he sure does write some of his post with abbreviated words almost like text
language, and maybe because it is acceptable on social networking but that’s one common theme I
noticed. On his twitter status updates there are really some good positive thinking quotes and they are
not always about school, they are just positive and encouraging words which is nice to see. I think that
Steven has posted some good articles on his page. He posted one blog retweet that really stood out to
me about Student Participation, and it was a great blog with helpful tips because I was never a student
to participate in front of class, but I think if a teacher used some of those methods it would definitely
help out students who struggle in front of a class. Him being in the top 50 innovators in education he
does a great job.
Kyle Pace @kylepace
He is a certified google teacher and that’s the first thing that stands out to me because google is
basically the sense of our whole universe and how we search things, it’s one of the biggest search engine
tools. One common thing that I can see on all of the educators I decided to follow is edcampKC. Also
another theme he tweeted about was what Minecraft teach kids. From the article I read that minecraft
allows the users to build whatever they want however they want. I have seen it as well because my 12
year old and 6 year old brothers play this game too and they collaborate with their friends too. One
example I can remember is my brother who is 12 and his friend were having a competition to who could
build the tallest and narrowest castle wall. After reading this blog, I will recommend to my mom that
minecraft is actually a good game online for the kids to play. Overall I think more of Kyle’s posts have

2. been retaining to the technology its self with google especially recently on the new security
improvements they made for students who use it for education and I think that’s a great thing.
Tom Altepeter @tomaltepeter
Something interesting about Tom is that I’ve learned that he is from Loveland CO, which is less than 30
minutes from where I actually live and went to school so that’s kind of interesting that I could make
connections to him about some of the schools in that area. Tom comes off to me more as a person who
is infatuated with helping the children and not so much technological fanatic but he cares more about
them as people. As I was reading his recent tweets, one article caught my attention. They are someone’s
child. As I took the time to read the article it really hit. I could remember examples when this kind of
thing has happened to me as a students, as an athlete or as an older sister. This article was very
powerful and really hit home. We have to stand up for the children and focus less on school and about
the crucial life lessons the children leave each grade with growing into individuals and human beings. He
is someone that I can relate to in more than one way because I’m from where he is and I can relate to
the educational systems and how they operate.
Harold Blanco @CI350class
As the professor of the class the tweets mostly kept up with what we were learning in the class as the
semester went on and some articles about tweets lately that have to do with social media in education.
This seems to be a big spot light topic about being able to use social media in the classroom and use it
the right way. Also we have a great way of keeping up with his mountain biking trails and how fitness
can help out a lot. He is also has a very big spot in his heart for the country he was born in and wants
things right there. Lately all he has tweeted about is Venezuela SOS. If I have time I could look into what
is going on there and try and help support his cause as well. Also he could connect to the 21st
century
pillar about languages seeing that he can communicate in a different language and use that on social
media to connect with others that can speak that language too. This CI350 class has been a very
challenging one, but I’ve learned so much from it.