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Digital Classroom

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

Screenshot, Budget Hero

Balancing the budget at the federal level is a challenge—one students can take on with this game.

sample of a US revolution Glog

Glogster—a "posterboard" creator for the digital media age.

Map, "2000 Census Map of Haitian Ancestry," 2010, Social Explorer

Navigate census data from 1940 to 2000 using interactive maps.

How can you make your lesson plans more exciting for your students without sacrificing content? Try incorporating digital tools! Watch this series of videos in which 1st grade teacher Jennifer Orr uses the digital tool VoiceThread to teach her students about the Founding Fathers. FIND OUT MORE »

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Digital classroom tools

Slideshare

Screenshot, Home page, Slideshare

Share away on this YouTube-style site for PowerPoint, PDF, and OpenOffice [...] »

Zotero

Screenshot, home page, Zotero

Zotero makes gathering, annotating, organizing, and cross-referencing research [...] »

Moodle

Screencap, Moodle About image, Moodle homepage, 5 June 2012

Looking for an open-source way to network with students and colleagues? [...] »

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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 teacher Joe Jelen introduces the primary source analysis strategy " [...] »

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 [...] »

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! [...] »

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Is the Internet a Reliable Source for History Content?

Map of the internet, OPTE Project

Encourage students to think critically about website content by introducing [...] »

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