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Digital Classroom

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

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Open up a new world between whiteboards and slides with this presentation tool.

Photography, Megan In The Tribune, 25 April 2011, Dave Bates, Flickr CC

Discover a new world of teaching possibilities with portable tablet computers.

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Encourage students to think critically about website content by introducing evaluation criteria and rubrics.

Looking for a way to encourage your young learners to understand connection and change between the past and the present? Check the website WhatWasThere, a fascinating place that will enable your students to travel backwards through time to explore what places look like today with what they looked like in the past. FIND OUT MORE »

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Digital classroom tools

Voki

Bring history to life and protect student identity with personalized speaking [...] »

inklewriter

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Do you use creative writing in your classroom? Add an interactive twist with [...] »

Search Engines

metal detector search

Beyond Google: effective use of search engines takes careful critical thinking. [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Whiteboard Basics

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

Using a whiteboard for the first time? Educator Simon Botten shares whiteboard [...] »

Creating Campaign Commercials

Students in Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School's class script and film [...] »

Analyzing Campaign Commercials

Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School brings modern and historical [...] »

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Classrooms can communicate locally and globally via Skype. Why not join the [...] »

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