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Digital Classroom

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

Free Technology for Teachers' guide to Google displayed in Yudu format

Go beyond Google Search with this free guide to Google services.

Screenshot, Tour, Google Docs

Create, share, and collaborate with this free word-processing tool!

Replicate the experience of reading (and creating) a book, electronically.

Don't just test students' knowledge about the past and present, engage their imaginations! This list of easy-to-use (and FREE) digital tools will allow students to creatively represent their understanding of historical topics and share them with others. FIND OUT MORE »

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Facebook

Screenshot, Facebook

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

Dropbox

dropbox installs on your computer

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

Twitter

Screenshot, homepage, Twitter

Does Twitter have value as an educational tool, or does it promote [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

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 [...] »

Choose Your Own Adventure Videos

Video still, Project 2, The History 2.0 Classroom, creative commons

Remember Choose Your Own Adventure stories? Borrow the idea for video projects! [...] »

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Digital Tools: Outfitting a Teacher's Arsenal

Photography, Technology in the Classroom, 1 Sept 2009, DeSales University, Flick

Ensure technology serves history and not vice-versa. Find out how! [...] »

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