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

YouTube

YouTube is an invaluable resource—just make sure to use it properly!

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Voki

Bring history to life and protect student identity with personalized [...] »

Historypin

Historypin is a digital mapping tool that ties collections of items with [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures

Students interact with history by creating Facebook fan pages for historical [...] »

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 [...] »

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

Educator Simon Botten demonstrates whiteboard techniques for history and [...] »

Ask a Digital Historian

History and New Media
Photo, Digital Beijing Building 数字北京大厦, Sanctu, Flickr

New media tools—invaluable resources or menaces of the digital age?

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