Christine Raines analyzed several Twitter accounts for educators and found that some provided more educational content than others. D Martin tweeted about controversial educational issues and math, but most tweets were conversational. The Daring Librarian and George Couros tweeted mostly conversations and promotions, not education. Harold Blanco tweeted links to educational technology topics that interested educators. Steven W. Anderson tweeted most frequently and all his tweets were educational, sharing links to beneficial blogs.

1. Christine Raines
Twitter Assignment
1. D Martin’s tweets were more conversational driven than educational. However, when he was
tweeting for education purposes his tweets were worth reading. He tweeted links to blogs dealing with
controversial educational issues usually dealing with math. His bio says he is a math teacher and his
tweets insinuate that. He retweeted a few inspiring quotes that I enjoyed reading. One of them being
the tweet posted below.
2. Following The Daring Librarian was a mistake. She tweeted a few educational tweets since I
started following her, but the majority of them were conversational tweets and advertisement. It was a
waste of my time. I followed her because I thought her account looked fun. I was assuming she was
going to be tweeting a lot about creative ways to learn. The few tweets that were educational were
directed more towards technology than anything else, Google to be more specific.
3. Following George Couros was also a mistake. He did not post one educational tweet since I
started following him. I got his name from the provided YouTube video. I thought since his bio said he
was a speaker and an educator that his tweets would be motivational. That was not the case. All of his
tweets were basically status updates or conversations with other users. The tweet posted below is a
good example of why following him was a waste of my time.

2. 4. I found Harold Blanco’s tweets to be informative. Since I started following him in the beginning
of April, all of his tweets have been of interest to me. He tweets links to pins and blogs that deal with
topics that should interest educators or future educators. For example, the tweet below takes you to a
link that has the top 10 hash tags for educational technology. They list hash tags for topics such as apps
for young learners, potential of iPad in the classroom, technology in higher education, etc. His tweets
lead me to a board on Pinterest that I now look at on a daily basis
(http://pinterest.com/lkubinak/edu610-links-for-teachers-and-students/).
5. Out of all the people I followed, Steven W. Anderson tweets keep me interested the most.
Perhaps it was because he tweeted the most frequent and all of his tweets were educational. He would
tweet multiple times a day with links to blogs and websites that were beneficial for educators to read.
His bio says that he is one of the top 50 innovators in education. One of his tweets that I really enjoyed
is posted below.