Digital Classroom

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

image of a slide transition or screenshot from an Animoto project

Discover new classroom possibilities with this easy-to-use video presentation tool.

sample of a data visualization of Arizona's American Indians

Turn data into charts, graphs, plots, word clouds, and more with this data visualization tool from IBM.

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

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

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

Learner Response Systems (Clickers)

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

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

Museum Box

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

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

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

Whiteboard Basics

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

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

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 [...] »

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Beyond Google Searching

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

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