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Team Teachers Tour: Page Links

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You may have noticed some links at the top of the Team Teachers blog (they’re dark right now because our theme knows it’s nighttime on the East Coast). These links exist to give you quick access to resources we’re developing for you. Here’s a breakdown:

New to Tumblr?

Here’s a quick introduction to the education community for those of you new to Tumblr. In the future this will contain a “Quick Start Guide” that you can share with your colleagues so they can set themselves up on Tumblr. At the moment, it specifically deals with the Tumblr Teacher Roll Call, and the Education tag. Speaking of which…

The Education Tag

This is the one of the central locations for educators on Tumblr. Any post tagged “Education” will appear here. This is one of the few tracked tags on Tumblr, and one of the Top 30 tags on Tumblr overall. It is curated by a set of editors from the Education community.

Education Resources

Future community-driven projects and free online resources will be linked to here. Two of the most successful projects are currently currently listed on this page. They include the Tumblr Teacher Roll Call (linked above) and a List of Interview Questions for those of you who are job-hunting.

Teaching Tags

We feel strongly that tags will have a huge impact on your ability to find content from other Tumblr bloggers that matches your grade level, discipline, or interest. This page currently lists the most popular education tags on Tumblr. In the future, we’ll be working with all of you to develop new tags for each discipline and grade level. Have a suggestion for an education tag? Submit it here.

Teacher Dare Day Rules

Teacher Dare Day is the brainchild of positivelypersistentteach, and is essentially the Tumblr education community’s version of an #edchat on Twitter. It’s a great way to interact with other educators on Tumblr. The rules are simple, and can be found here. Remember: If you are participating in a Teacher Dare Day, tag your posts “Teacher Dare Day.”

There will certainly be more to come, but this is a great start.

What do you think? Did we miss anything?

How to Find that Old Post on Your Tumblr Blog

“It was that post about that one thing that I shared back in March. Or maybe September? ARGH!”

The trouble with Tumblr blogs is that they’re not easily searchable. Sure, you can use tags to navigate around. But tags on Tumblr encourage you to look at things that are being posted now, not several months ago. This is especially problematic for those of you who post educational things to your blogs to “save them for later.” But if you want some real help tracking down that old post you’re looking for, you can actually just Google it.

Tumblr blogs are public by default, so your blog has likely been indexed by Google. To perform a search of just your blog, type this into Google:

site:YOURBLOG.tumblr.com

Add a space, then type whatever you’re looking for. It’s that simple, and the results will be exclusively from your blog.

Here’s a sample Google search for posts on my blog about pedagogy: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aworld-shaker.tumblr.com+pedagogy

On a sidenote, this also works for any website that has been indexed by Google, which is a helpful research strategy if you’re having trouble finding content on a specific site.

Protip: Make judicious use of tags in all your posts to make it as easy as possible to find what you’re looking for down the road.

Tomorrow, Wednesday August 1, will be Teacher Truth or Dare Day.

Truths will operate as usual dare day.   Here are the rules.

Dares: You may put requests in people’s asks.  For example, I dare Pablo to build a fort with his wife in their new house.  You have the right to not do a dare without any peer pressure.  For example, I will not post a picture of how messy my room is right now.

Get on it.

Ohmuffins and I are planning a summer picnic.

ohmuffins:

positivelypersistentteach:

On the guest list so far are GWALP and World-Shaker.

All other Tumblr Teacher / Education related tumblrs that may be able to travel to Ohio this summer, please message me.

But: no talking about school in the summer, right?! 

[Seriously though: this is happening.]

NOTE FROM WORLD-SHAKER:

This would be in the Cleveland/Kent area in Northeast Ohio.

Who are some great first year teacher blogs to follow on Tumblr?

Reblog or reply to this post with two Tumblr Teachers you think everyone should follow

TEACHER DARE DAY~

Please reblog this post so everyone knows!

If you are not familiar with what Teacher Dare Day is — Click here!

Don’t forget to use the tag “teacher dare day.”

WARNING to anyone who is trying to hide their Tumblr blog or real-world identity

This feature existed before, but it’s now been made more prominent.

This is particularly important to educators. If your students know the email address you use to log into Tumblr (even if they don’t know you’re on Tumblr), and they’ve added you as a contact in their Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, or MSN accounts, they can theoretically find you by clicking on the Add and remove button under the number of followers…

…then attempting to connect with their contacts on the following page:

I know some of you are job-hunting, or live in “witch hunt” districts and want to keep the contents of your blog private and unattached to you in real life. If you don’t want to show up when someone searches for people they know, go to the Preferences page (the gear icon in the top-right corner), and uncheck the box beneath your name.

On a sidenote, love to Tumblr for giving you the option to not be found this way instead of Facebooking you about it.