Teachers' Day 2009

Write your Dedication
The short online messaging service Twitter is the rage these days. Celebrities like Shaquille O’Neal, Ryan Seacrest and even our own Joanne Peh are using it to talk to the world.

So for this Teachers’ Day, we thought it would be cool to use Twitter to tell the world how great our teachers are. Maybe U.S. President Barack Obama will join us in thanking his teachers. One can always hope, right?

Instructions
You’ll need a Twitter account to send your message. If you already have one, you can skip the registration instructions.

Get a Twitter Account
Go to Twitter.com and click on the huge green “Sign up now” button.

Fill up all the fields, then click on the “Create My Account” button.

You might be asked for your email and email password if you want to check if your friends are also on Twitter. Feel free to skip those steps, you won’t need it to send your Teachers’ Day dedication.

Writing your Dedication
Now for the fun part! You can write your dedication to your teacher in the large text box (under the words “What are you doing now?”) or you can go straight to http://teachersday.sg/

If you want your teacher to be able to find your dedication later, you will want to make sure you include:
- Your teacher’s name
- The name of the school in which your teacher taught you
- Your dedication message
- Your name
- Your class (when your teacher taught you)
- The year your teacher taught you
- Add “#tday09” at the end of the whole message. You have to add this so we can pick out all “Teachers” Day messages from Twitter.

Now the important part. Twitter only allows messages of 140 characters, so you will need to plan your dedication very carefully.