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2. shift the focus of activity from theteacher to the learners. These methodsinclude active learning, in whichstudents solve problems, answerquestions, formulate questions of theirown, discuss, explain, debate, orbrainstorm during class; 3. Twitter Skype BloggingClustermapsRSS 4. Seek Go, Explore, Discover!Twitter, Facebook, Skype and Scoop-it. Sense Understand, Do, Create, RemixShare it back on Twitter or Facebook.. Share Pay It Forwardshare slides on Dropbox or Slideshare.That way you take part of the sharingculture. 5. @schink10 Twitter = the ultimatecollaboration tool. I now have friends inevery state & internationally who share apassion for education #digileadwv 6. What are the benefits ofusing this with students Talk with your shoulder parner 7. Show website here. 8. Shelley WrightI used to think the essay was the Holy Grail ofthe English classroom. Now I honestly believe itsone of the least useful forms of communication Iteach, at least in the 5-paragraph essay format. Istill believe its important for my students to beable to persuasively argue, but now they learnhow to do it via blogging, social media, and usingvisual and audio formats. 9. 1. Spelling mistakes use spell-checker options in theirBrowser. I now use Google Chrome and the built in spell-checkerextension2. Peer review. Not only for content but helping eachother with language structure, grammar and spelling.3. Sources, images and videos. Teachstudents. Wikimedia commons is a great place to findimages, sounds and video you can use in your blog. Flickr:creative commons is one, Google Advanced Search