Power+of+Connection+(JALT+Hokkaido)

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 * Links to resources and people mentioned in the workshop:**


 * Twitter-related resources**

Twitter.com (sign up for your free account)

3rd party applications that make sorting Twitter messages and groups easier. Both allow you to send messages from more than one account (for those who were interested in that) and to update facebook, etc. as well as Twitter.

Tweetdeck (versions for desktop, online with Chrome, and phone) Hootsuite (online only, as far as I know)

ELT Chat (website with links to archives and summaries of past chats) TweetChat (to follow hashtag discussions, like ELT Chat, even if you aren't on Twitter) ELT Chat Facebook Page (reminders about chats, links to transcripts and summaries)


 * Finding people to follow:**

[|The Starter PLN List] (My list of about 100 fabulous people who constantly share useful links and are kind and helpful for new people on Twitter) (you can follow the entire list, or pick and choose)

The Starter PLN Daily (an free online newspaper updated daily with links shared by members of the Starter PLN--subscribing to the paper is an easy way to see the value of resources shared on twitter, even if you aren't on twitter yourself)

@barbsaka (Barb Hoskins Sakamoto) @ORT_Japan (Oxford Reading Tree) @Oxford_KidsClub (OUP Kids' Club) @jaltorg (JALT on twitter) @jalttcsig (JALT Teaching Children SIG on Twitter) JALT on Twitter (live stream of tweets about JALT, from main JALT website)

Important hashtags to search for: #jalt, #jalt2011 (especially during the JALT National Conference), #eltchat

Some other JALT members who tweet, via We Follow: []

Oxford Reading Tree online resources Oxford Owl (resources for teaching) Teacher's Overview for teaching phonics with Oxford Reading Tree Oxford Presentations (to download videos and handouts from teaching workshops you might have missed) Oxford Teacher's Club (free membership and access to tons of free resources for OUP textbooks) OUP Japan Teachers' Clubs (same free membership and access to resources, plus a few Japan-specific services)
 * Websites and blogs mentioned**

OUP English Language Teaching Global Blog Teaching Village (Barb's Blog, with an extensive list of other ELT blogs on this page) JALT Hokkaido Blog (part of the JALT Hokkaido website) CA in Sapporo (CA Eddington's blog) Breaking News English on Facebook ELT Pics on Flickr JALT (official website)

Additional links to resources originally discovered via Twitter can be found by browsing my bookmarks on Delicious or on this wiki (browse the sidebar on the right to find the page you'd like to explore.

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Additional links to resources oriinally discovered via Twitter can be found by browsing my bookmarks on Delicious or on this wiki (browse the sidebar on the right to find the page you'd like to explore.
 * Step by step presentation showing steps in signing up for Twitter:**

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A useful video tutorial by Shelly Terrell demonstrating how to use Tweetdeck for hashtag discussions, like ELT Chat:

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Finally, here's the video (by Shelly Terrell) we saw at the beginning of the talk: media type="youtube" key="beCOC7dEfYk" height="315" width="420" align="left"