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Digital Classroom

This nifty tool is not only fun to use, but also very useful in the history classroom! Students can use this free website to constructing their own short digital movies, in doing so they will learn how to utilize primary sources and develop their historical thinking skills. FIND OUT MORE »

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dropbox installs on your computer

Back up files and share documents anywhere with this online storage tool. [...] »

Photography, i>clickers, 4 June 2010, Mathieu Plourde, Flickr CC

Check out this tech-based alternative to counting raised hands. [...] »

screencap, example of a box, 4 Nov 2011, Museum Box

Curate and create online "museums in a box." [...] »

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Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Screencapture, Primary ICT - Advanced Whiteboard Techniques, December 16, 2005

Educator Simon Botten demonstrates whiteboard techniques for history and [...] »

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

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

A student using Voicethread in Jennifer Orr's classroom

Students are never too young for digital tools—watch first graders use [...] »

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NARA, family portrait

Google is great, but not always applicable to the history classroom. Discover a [...] »

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