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Digital Classroom

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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Group Text-Messaging Tools

Photo, Texting, Jhayemesisviphotography, Dec. 12, 2011, Flickr

Students pay more attention to texts than emails? Speak to them in their own [...] »

Wordle

Screenshot, Wordle-Create, text about the CIA's Acoustic Kitty, Wordle

Does something this much fun belong in the classroom? Yes! [...] »

Ning

Screenshot, "Discover New Ning Networks," Ning

Network with other teachers, or encourage your students to match minds outside [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Using Skype in the Classroom

Photo, Flat Classroom Skype, November 29, 2008, superkimbo, Flickr

Educator Silvia Tolisano introduces voice-chat tool Skype and its use in the [...] »

VoiceThread in a 1st-grade Classroom

A student using Voicethread in Jennifer Orr's classroom

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

Recording Experiences with First Graders

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras! [...] »

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Historic Images are Everywhere

stereoscope with image

Needed: directions to reliable databases for historic images. [...] »

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