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

Flickr

Use pictures to teach and learn history—and explore copyright issues.

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DocsTeach

Find primary sources and the tools to present them to students—in one place [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

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

Crosscurricular Multimedia: AP U.S. History and Govt Classes Collaborate
Detail, homepage, student website, http://web.me.com/sorexvanity/Social_Security

Two teachers brought their classrooms together to talk about the national [...] »

VoiceThread in a 1st-grade Classroom

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

Ask a Digital Historian

Wikipedia: Credible Research Source or Not?

Factual accuracy isn't the main deterrent to citing Wikipedia.

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