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Digital Classroom

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

wikipedia article

Factual accuracy isn't the main deterrent to citing Wikipedia.

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Do you use creative writing in your classroom? Add an interactive twist with inklewriter's choose-your-own-adventure tools!

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

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

Zotero

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

Facebook

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Does Facebook in the history classroom take social networking too far? Maybe [...] »

Google for Teachers: A Guide by "Free Technology for Teachers"

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Go beyond Google Search with this free guide to Google services. [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

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Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

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See how one 8th-grade teacher introduced herself to digital storytelling with [...] »

Introduction to Google Docs

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

Creating Campaign Commercials

Students in Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School's class script and film [...] »

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Finding a Speaker Willing to Use Digital Networks

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Bring history to life with Skype and other digital technologies. [...] »

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