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Digital Classroom

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

Photography, phone popularity poll, 12 Jan 2008, FLickr CC

Cell phones: classroom menace or handy learning tool?

Screencapture, The Twitter Experiment - Twistory in the Classroom

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

wikipedia article

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

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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Poll Everywhere

A comprehensive survey tool that offers a variety of different polling methods. [...] »

Cacoo

screenshot of a 13 colonies mindmap

Develop graphic organizers, charts, and other visualizations collaboratively. [...] »

Canva

A digital design tool home to over 50,000 different templates. [...] »

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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? [...] »

Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures

Screencap, Facebook Fan page, DeWitt APUSH Clinton, Facebook

Students interact with history by creating Facebook fan pages for historical [...] »

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

Screencapture, Primary ICT - Advanced Whiteboard Techniques, December 16, 2005

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

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Historic Images are Everywhere

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

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