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Digital Classroom

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

Vietnam Political Cartoon. The My Lai Ditch Claims Another Victim

High school history teacher Joe Jelen introduces "zoom-in inquiry," a technique for approaching visual primary sources.

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

Cell phones: classroom menace or handy learning tool?

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Construct your own short films demonstrating historical thinking.

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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Do I Have a Right?

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Can you prevent 16-year-olds from voting? Tear down your neighbor's house to [...] »

Slideshare

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A YouTube-style site for PowerPoint, PDF, and OpenOffice projects. Share away! [...] »

Blogs

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Blogs are communication channels and pedagogical tools. For students, they may [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Crosscurricular Multimedia: AP U.S. History and Govt Classes Collaborate

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AP U.S. Government teacher Ken Halla and AP U.S. History teacher Monte [...] »

Introduction to Google Docs

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What exactly is Google Docs and how can you use this flexible tool to encourage [...] »

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

Screencapture, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom, January 25, 2010

Lynne Zalesak, an 8th-grade Houston social studies teacher, introduced herself [...] »

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When Copyright Meets the Classroom

Photo, Letter C, May 6, 2008, Leo Reynolds, Flickr, cc

Understanding fair use and public domain are key to finding your way through [...] »

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