Spotlight on Elementary Education

This nifty tool is not only fun to use, but also very useful in the history classroom! Students can use this free website to constructing their own short digital movies, in doing so they will learn how to utilize primary sources and develop their historical thinking skills. FIND OUT MORE »

Tech for Teachers

Digital classroom tools

Cell Phones as Classroom Tools

Cell phones: classroom menace or handy learning tool?

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Padlet

Facilitate dialogue in the history classroom with this online bulletin board [...] »

LucidChart

Map the twists and turns of a process or historical narrative with this [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

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

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

VoiceThread in a 1st-grade Classroom

Students are never too young for digital tools—watch first graders use [...] »

Recording Experiences with First Graders

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!

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Ask a Digital Historian

Beyond Google Searching

Google is great, but not always applicable to the history classroom. [...] »