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Digital Classroom

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

Screenshot, Do I Have a Right?

Drill students on the constitutional amendments with this engaging game.

Screencapture, Google Docs account, Google

What exactly is Google Docs and how can you use it to encourage collaboration?

Screencapture, The Twitter Experiment - Twistory in the Classroom

Professor Dr. Monica Rankin uses Twitter to make student participation easier in large classrooms.

Does something this much fun belong in the classroom? Wordle, a free, online tool, is definitely fun to play with, but it's also a learning tool for visualizing and analyzing text. And it's adaptable to learning objectives for all elementary school grades. FIND OUT MORE »

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Tech for Teachers

Digital classroom tools

Flickr

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Use pictures to teach and learn history—and explore copyright issues. [...] »

Skype

skype, cassedy elementary class

Bring experts into the classroom or meet students from around the globe with [...] »

DocsTeach

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Find primary sources and the tools to present them to students—in one [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Introduction to Google Docs

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What exactly is Google Docs and how can you use it to encourage collaboration? [...] »

Choose Your Own Adventure Videos

Video still, Project 2, The History 2.0 Classroom, creative commons

Remember Choose Your Own Adventure stories? Borrow the idea for video projects! [...] »

Whiteboards and the Youngest Children

Screencapture, Five-Year-Olds Pilot Their Own Project Learning, May 9, 2007

Watch kindergarten classes engage in project-based learning using new [...] »

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Beyond Google Searching

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

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