To join an existing community once you have registered at TeacherPlaces, simply search the topics that people are writing about by typing a tag or keyword into the search box in the lower right corner of the window.  That search will produce a list of resources and users interested in that topic.

If you don’t see what you are looking for, go back and click on the “Random tags” link just below the search box.  That will produce the “tag cloud” or list of topics that people on the site are interested in.  If you see what you are looking for, click on the tag and you will be given a list of the people and resources on the site that have listed that tag.

Under the heading “Matching users” toward the bottom of the list, you will see any communities that have been formed on that topic.  A click on the link will take you to the community main page.  In the box to the right, below the community icon, you will see a link “Click here to join this community.”  Click the link and you are in!  It’s that easy.