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Digital Classroom

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Discover new digital tools for your classroom and how teachers are using them.

b&w photo, 1911, Webster Branch Y.M.C.A. Teaching English to Foreigners, NYPL

Acquiring a teacher or historian that will speak on the American Revolution and use services such as Skype proves harder than it sounds.

Screenshot, Do I Have a Right?

Can you prevent 16-year-olds from voting? Tear down your neighbor's house to host "awesome parties"? Learn what rights the constitutional amendments do and don't codify.

Screencapture, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom, January 25, 2010

Lynne Zalesak, an 8th-grade Houston social studies teacher, introduced herself to digital storytelling with Microsoft's Photo Story 3.

In order to understand history, it is first essential to grasp the importance of historical narratives. This collaborative, online charting tool will enable your students to create diagrams and flowcharts that represent the stories that compose history. FIND OUT MORE »

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Tech for Teachers

Digital classroom tools

Mind Mapping: Visualizing Historical Thought

Photo, All Image Mind Map. Topic: Home, January 28, 2009, jonny goldstein

Mind mapping is a tool that reveals the extent of students' understanding of [...] »

YouTube

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Web-based video hosting is not new to teachers or students. But how can [...] »

Dropbox

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Tired of losing or misplacing flash drives? Looking for a way to synchronize [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Zoom-in Inquiry

Vietnam Political Cartoon. The My Lai Ditch Claims Another Victim

High school history teacher Joe Jelen introduces "zoom-in inquiry," a technique [...] »

Crosscurricular Multimedia: AP U.S. History and Govt Classes Collaborate

Detail, homepage, student website, http://web.me.com/sorexvanity/Social_Security

AP U.S. Government teacher Ken Halla and AP U.S. History teacher Monte [...] »

Whiteboard Basics

Screencapture, Primary ICT - Creating a Whiteboard Lesson, December 12, 2005

Using a whiteboard for the first time? Educator Simon Botten looks at basics in [...] »

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Using the Web to Learn Research and Presentation Skills

Photo, National History Day Presentation, 2010, Jim, the Photographer, Flickr

Looking for websites to direct your students early steps in historical research? [...] »

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