Friday, June 5, 2015

Twitter- Educational Tech Leaders


Twitter is a social media tool that enables people to connect by sending out Tweets. It allows people to share information that is important to them in short snip-its. You can add links, photos and videos to Tweets to extend the information being sent out. People use Twitter to connect with friends, to follow the lives of people they are interested in or admire and to network with experts and professionals working in like fields. Twitter has an extensive educator community including teachers, administrators, librarians and authors. Included in this post are some of the leaders in education, educational technology and libraries who have a strong active presence on Twitter.

  • Dr. Elizabeth Gross @egross – Library Director    
Tweets about: strengthening the mind and body & bringing life to investigative learning.
Example Tweet: Hype about digital age pushing out need for libraries.

  • Dr. Karin Perry @kperry – SHSU Lib Sci Professor
Tweets about: books, reviews, recommendations and trends.
Example Tweet: Love the daily prompt to get people talking about what they are reading.


  • Dr. Teri Lesesne @professornana - SHSU Lib Sci Professor

Tweets about: Always an advocate for librarians and teachers giving current issues surrounding education.

Example Tweet: Post about the state of Wisconsin giving a license to teachers with no degree!


  • Dr. Laura Shaneman @ DrLauraShaneman - Region One Library Services Coordinator

Tweets about: tools, strategies and articles for all educators looking to strengthen reading and technology skills for their students or themselves.

Example Tweet: Shares an article on Google Voice and its beneficial uses for teacher’s personal use as well as an instructional tool with students.



  • Colby Sharp @ colbsharp - Teacher
Tweets about: all about books and the use of technology to share books.
Example Tweet: Shares the use of students using technology to talk about their favorite books.


  • John Schu @MrSchuReads – K-5 Librarian

Tweets about: Shares links to great children’s books, book trailers, book lists and author notes.

Example Tweet: Gives access to an author Laura Amy Schlitz’s point of view on writing and future writing aspirations.


  • Paul Hankins @ PaulWHankins – High School Teacher

Tweets about: books, activities, research tools and the influence books have to inspire creativity.
Example Tweet: Student art piece inspired by author Andrew Smith.


  • Kathy Schrock @kathyschrock – Educational Technologist

Tweets about:  lots of great tech tips, discoveries and links for those wanting to find out more about the latest technology tools.

Example Tweet: Her discovery Education blog highlighting “Literacies for the Digital Age”.


  • Linda Braun @lbraun2000 – Librarian & Ed Tech Consultant

Tweets about: helpful technology, ways to inspire creativity and educational trends.

Example Tweet: Shares an article interviewing the founder of the Maker movement.


  • Tony Vincent @tonyvincent – Presenter & Teacher

Tweets about:  endless tips, videos and links helping integrate the latest technology within the classroom.

Example Tweet: Provides great tips for integrating technology into classroom centers.


  • Buffy Hamilton @buffyjhamilton – Teacher Librarian
Tweets about: her thoughts and links to educational technologies.

Example Tweet: Her opinion on Library Journal’s article concerning a school cutting a centralized library for library pods.


  • The Daring Librarian @GwynethJones – Teacher Librarian

Tweets about: an endless amount of wonderful ways she gets students involved in the library.

Example Tweet: Summer reading list is posted on her educational Wiki and is very inviting with a video, graphics and QR Code scanner.


  • Jim Lerman @jimlerman – Teacher & Author

Tweets about: tips, articles and videos geared toward integrating and simplifying educational technology.

Example Tweet: He gives the link to creating interactive digital calendars that can be used motivate students to set goals and take charge of their own learning.


  • School Library Journal @sljournal – Professional Organization

Tweets about: This organization supports and advocates for productive and successful student-centered school libraries.

Example Tweet: Gave great resource to aid in the development of a library’s summer reading program.



  • American Library Association @ALALibrary – Professional Organization

Tweets about: This organization posts all up-to-date information concerning public & school libraries including award-winning book lists, educational technology, library advocacy and much much more!

Example Tweet: Gave a link to the ALA website sharing resources (booklists, hand-outs, discussion guides and read alikes) to the latest books awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction.

 *** Embedded Tweets were used in this blog. Embedding a Tweet is simple: when you find a Tweet you would like to use on your blog, website etc. just click on the symbol of 3 dots beneath the Tweet for “More”. Then click on “Embedded Tweet”, copy the highlighted code and paste it onto your site in the location for HTML. Super simple!




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  1. Elizabeth GrossJune 7, 2015 at 7:27 AM

    Thanks for your thoroughness. You will be asked to examine and evaluate many reources as the school librarian, and you seem to understand how to do that. Good job!

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