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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
PrimaryAccess
Construct your own short films demonstrating historical thinking.
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Navigate census data from 1940 to 2000 using interactive maps.
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Beyond the Chalkboard
Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies
Using Skype in the Classroom
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Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures
Students interact with history by creating Facebook fan pages for historical [...] »
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
See how one 8th-grade teacher introduced herself to digital storytelling [...] »
Ask a Digital Historian
Beyond Google Searching
Google is great, but not always applicable to the history classroom. [...] »