For a class assignment, the author chose four Twitter accounts related to education to follow: David Truss, Eric Sheninger, Tom Altepeter, and Jerry Blumengarten. Truss is a high school principal who tweets about spending time out of his office visiting classrooms. Sheninger is also a principal who questions current practices and shares articles on classroom technology. Altepeter is an assistant principal who tweets about social justice. Blumengarten is a retired educator who answers questions on Twitter. The author found Truss and Sheninger's tweets most interesting for sharing ideas about educational tools and strategies.

1. For CI350, we had to pick four Twitter accounts from a video that we were interested in
and follow them. All of the accounts that were mentioned in the video were educationally based
in some way or another. The four that I chose were David Truss, Eric Sheninger, Tom Altepeter,
and Jerry Blumengarten. The first of these, Truss, is a high school principal that implements days
that he calls ‘#nooffice days’. These are days that he is out of his office for the entire day,
visiting classrooms and being active in the school. Sheninger is another principal. He questions a
lot of current educational practices, which is a good thing. Altepeter is an assistant principal that
tweets about social justice and just mind opening things in general. Most of the stuff that he
tweets tends to be revolving around quotes about social justice. Blumengarten is a retired
educator that answers questions on Twitter. Anything that you may have questions about you can
get his opinion on. I included some screen shots of tweets from the accounts that I liked in order
to give the reader a better idea of what they tweet about.
David Truss is my favorite of the accounts so far. The tweets that he sends out are great.
The one that I posted a picture of is a picture of a pencil with different parts featuring different
kind of educators. The lead is the ‘leaders’, which are described as peoples that are open to
mastering new forms of education so that their students will benefit as much as they can. The last
label are the ‘erasers’, which do everything that they can in order to not only keep new
technology out of schools, but take away technology that has been there for years. I thought that
this animation really fit with a few of the discussions that we had in class about teachers and the
educational tools that we learned about. Another thing that I really like about Truss are his days
that he stays out of his office for the entire day. The visibility is great for him, not only because it
gives him an opportunity to see how the faculty are doing, but also because it gives students

2. more of a chance to get to know their principal, which is something that is missing from modern
schools in my opinion.
Eric Sheninger is another principal that is highly visible on Twitter. Most of the tweets
that he sends out are links to articles about technology that can be used in the classroom or new
classroom strategies. He is really on top of anything modern for classroom use, which is great.
The tweets that I included on the Wiki interested me, but the one that really interested me was
the one about QR codes. I just thought that it was really cool to see something that we had talked
about in class being talked about someone that is thought so highly of in education.
Tom Altepeter is an assistant principal in a middle school. First of all, I would like to
point out that his Twitter account has the best picture out of all of them, hands down. Just look at
how epic that hair is. The majority of his tweets are about social justice, which I gave an example
of on the Twitter page of my Wiki. I like that he is as passionate about equality. I think the world
would be a much better place if more people took a stand like this man is doing.
Finally, there is Jerry Blumengarten. He is an educator that spends most of his time on
Twitter just trying to keep people informed. Out of the accounts that I followed from the video,
this one was my least favorite. It isn’t that he does not tweet useful information, because he does.
His feed just seemed to be a little harder to get through than the other three. Like I said,
everything he tweets is quite useful and applicable in the classroom.
The thing that I noticed about all of these accounts is that the majority of the tweets that
they produce are links to articles. I think this is the real potential in education for Twitter. If a
teacher finds an article that they really like that brings a new idea to the table or sees something
about a new type of technology or anything like that, they can simply post the link in a tweet

3. with a couple of words saying what it is. Then, any colleague that follows them can access this
article as soon as they see it. This will make the spreading of ideas much faster and way less
painless, which will only improve the education that kids are getting.