The document discusses several Twitter users that the author follows for education-related content. It provides details on each user and the types of tweets they post. Aviva Dunsiger tweets about her classroom activities and teaching ideas. David Truss retweets education quotes and discusses news on public education issues. Steven W. Anderson shares resources for teachers and encourages student engagement. George Couros provides insights on how students learn and preferences for technology tools in the classroom. Harold Blanco discusses integrating technology and social media into the classroom as well as issues in Venezuela.

1. Aviva Dunsiger is one is of the people I am following. She has tweets on both her personal life
and her professional life. Aviva has tweeted a lot of pictures of her classroom and the activities they
participate in. When you see her pictures of the classroom, it is kind of like looking at a Pinterest
account. Aviva gives some background details for the images that she gives. She is constantly giving
ideas of what to do in an elementary classroom. That is very helpful. Ms. Dunsiger is full of information
on teaching. As far as her personal life posts go, Aviva talks a lot about coffee cups. Apparently she is
has been spilling a lot of coffee and needs to find a better cup to hold her hot beverage. Aviva is also
humorous in her tweets. For instance, she tweeted a picture of an iPad with paint on it. The caption
was a warning to herself to not give a child with paint on his or her fingers an iPad.
David Truss is another person I am following. He retweets a fair amount of educational quotes.
I particularly enjoy the Mr. Rogers one that talks about play being serious learning. Therefore, play is
really the work of adulthood. Some of the things he tweets I am not familiar with. For instance, he
tweets about siphoning off of public education. Not being part of the school system right now, I might
have to do some research to figure out just exactly what that is. David also tweets about some of the
news on public education. For instance, he tweets about the education cuts that are taking away jobs
and student organizations. Most of the major news organizations do not have these types of stories on
the top of their dockets. So, David does a good job of talking about what is really going on in the world
of education.
Steven W. Anderson is the third person I am following. He has a bunch of tweets that are very
inspiring. He encourages everyone to learn and teach. Steven is always tweeting about resources for
teachers. For instance, he gave a website on how teachers are learning. Mr. Anderson really enjoys
sharing information on how to be a better educator and person. Steven wants students to be more
engaged in the classroom and even tweeted about a chat on the topic. He encourages people to make
every day successful. Mr. Anderson sounds like an awesome educator. He makes an amazing
motivator.
George Couros is the last person from the Twitter video that I am following. He provides some
insight into how students learn and how they prefer to engage in the classroom. For example, he gives a
study that says that students prefer tablets to laptops and smartphones. This is something that is useful
for administrators and teachers because it allows them to know what tools are the best to use in the
classroom. I would not know about this if not for that tweet. George, like most Twitter users, also
tweets a lot about random stuff. I find little enjoyment from a raccoon somersaulting in someone’s
living room. I’m sorry, but I have better things to do than watch that. He also tweeted several times
and wanted to know what the hashtag was for different types of teachers. For the most part, Mr.
Couros is a pretty interesting and informative person to follow.
Harold Blanco (CI 350 class) is the last person that I am following. The majority of his tweets are
about technology and how to integrate it into the classroom. He discusses the best ways to use social
media in the school setting. Harold also tweets about the repression in Venezuela, and he gives
information on how to help the people living there. Although those tweets do not deal with education,
they are a wonderful example of how social media can be used to aid those who need assistance.
Harold is all about using Twitter and other forms of social media to help students and educators. He
does not want the stereotypes associated with social media to detract teachers and administrators from
using it in their schools. His tweets have resources that can be used by teachers. For instance, he

2. includes a link that is a guidebook for social media in the classroom. In this age of technology, teachers
need to learn how to incorporate Twitter, Facebook, etc. in the classroom. The above mentioned link
should help them (and future teachers) find out how to do that.