1. Twitter in Education
@stumpteaher
Josh Stumpenhorst is a teacher and blogger from Chicago. He was also 2012 IL Teacher
of the Year. Stumpenhorst often tweets inspiring quotes or educational articles. As I was
reading through his timeline and keeping up with his posts, I noticed that he kept talking about
a “Thinking Wall.” I decided to look into it a little more, and I discovered that he will put up a
question such as “What does it mean to be successful?” and the students in his classes will put
an answer on the chalkboard around the question. I also discovered that he was an educational
blogger and a regular runner. He answers many educational questions his followers tweet him,
and he often posts how-to articles, such as “How to Set up Digital Workshops.” Along with the
other four educators I followed, he is a strong advocate for digital learning.
@bhsprincipal
Mark Sullivan is a principal at Burlington High School in Massachusetts. He mostly
tweets about school functions and updates. He posts many pictures of functions currently
going on at BHS. As I read through his tweets I noticed he used the hashtag #bhschat in almost
every tweet. When I clicked on it, I found that students, teachers, and administrators tweet
reminders or updates about things going on at the school and use that hashtag to make them
easily retrievable to anyone in the school. One rule for the tweets though, is they can’t use
students’ names to protect privacy. They also kept tweeting things about #hourofcode. I
looked into that as well and found that it was a website that exposes students to computer
programming.
@d_martin05
D Martin is a math teacher and speaker from Canada. He writes an article every day
that is in his Martin Daily newsletter type thing. He mentions the problems of standardized
testing frequently, and I can tell by the way he talks about it that he is definitely against it. He
also raises points about ESL students and testing and whether or not classrooms are set up to
accept the number of immigrants in schools. He tweets all kinds of teaching tips, and addresses
ways to prevent and stop bullying.

2. @NMHS_Principal
Eric Sheninger is the principal at New Milford High School in New Jersey. He is a Google
certified teacher and Adobe Education teacher. He is also an author and speaker about
education. He frequently posts inspiring quotes, and he recently hosted a visit with
administrators and teachers from Israel. He posts lots of links to education articles and
websites, and he passionate about including social media and other digital learning tools in
education. Oh, and he is also a runner. ;)
@Couros
Alec Couros is a professor of Education Technology and Media in Canada. He is also an
author and education researcher. His tweets mainly consist of updates from conferences he
goes to worldwide, and education articles. I learned that he is always on the road due to
business and that he has a three year old daughter. One of his more recent conferences was
about why social media matters in teaching and learning. I guess you could say all of these guys
love their technology.