TEACHER TUESDAY

theenglishteacher on April 26th, 2009

Last Tuesday marked the start of #teachertuesday on Twitter. What does this mean? The hash mark (#) before a word in a post allows you to tag that post for that word. However, in order to get tracked via a hash tag, you need to opt-in and follow. Once you’re following hash tags, every time you make a post in Twitter and tag it with a hash mark like so: #teachertuesday it will then show up as a real-time post on www.hashtags.org. All teachers, bloggers, schools, companies and anyone else interested in the education sector is invited to follow the blue owl at @teachertuesday. Every Tuesday you can use the #teachertuesday to make suggestions to your followers and the blue owl who they should follow. For example

#teachertuesday follow @TheEngTeacher she is a great teacher and @edufire it’s a great company

The blue owl will revise all tweets of #teachertuesday and then add interesting teachers, bloggers, schools and companies to www.teachertuesday.info which is therefore becoming an educational data bank, a great resource for all teachers etc.,

Here is what my colleague and dear friend Kirsten had to say:

The idea is to recommend interesting teachers, schools, organisations, applications or anything else about education to your friends and followers on Twitter, like on #followfriday.

See you on @teachertuesday

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11 Responses to “TEACHER TUESDAY”

MissShonahApril 26th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Insightful as always - thank you! I didn’t realise the hash# was functional - I thought it merely decorative!! Happy tweeting.
ShellTerrellMay 19th, 2009 at 11:47 am

Thanks! Great place for lots of info! I just hope I did it right!
KennyJuly 7th, 2009 at 7:21 am

I have found some great people to follow by checking the #teachertuesday tags.
adminJuly 7th, 2009 at 8:36 am

Thanks for your comment Kenny, yes it not only provides resources but it also brings a lot of teachers together, great killing two birds with one stone
June RosendahlJuly 7th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

I really appreciate the #teachertuesday - to follow as many teachers as possible gives me great insight to improving our services towards you teachers. Thank you
Rhalmi MohammedJanuary 5th, 2010 at 12:56 pm

Great people to follow using the #teachertuesday. Thank you!!!!
Oya SanliFebruary 11th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

Hi to all,

I am from Istanbul/Turkey. I begin to give some IT related training cources. I would like to improve my self on teaching processes. I think #teachertuesday will be helpfull to do that.

Thanks to all..