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Digital Classroom

Wordle is a visualization tool for text. Useful for identifying main ideas and key vocabulary, Wordle generates usable word clouds from texts you select and with fonts you choose. FIND OUT MORE »

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Tech for Teachers

Annotated guide to classroom tools from research to collaboration to presentations.

Slideshare

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

Wikis

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They're not just for encyclopedias anymore. Looking for a new way to approach [...] »

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A classic classroom nuisance can be turned to positive uses. [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Watch teachers demonstrate promising methods for using digital tools to teach history.

Whiteboards: Test-taking and Clickers

Screencapture, Technology in the Classroom: Promethean Boards, Erika Lasater

Clickers allow students to respond to activities on whiteboards quickly and [...] »

Twitter in Large Classrooms

Screencapture, The Twitter Experiment - Twistory in the Classroom

Professor Dr. Monica Rankin talks about using Twitter to facilitate student [...] »

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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Finding Skype Collaborators

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Classrooms can communicate locally and globally via Skype. Why not join the [...] »

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Where does the glory of Robert Shaw and the men of the 54th Massachusetts reside?

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Regularly assess student understanding, and revise your lesson plans to match the needs of lower level learners.

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As more new media tools are developed, and more primary sources digitally archived, historians must find new ways to sort and present the data meaningfully.
 

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