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

Dropbox

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

Voki

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

Web Poster Wizard
Screenshot, home page, Web Poster Wizard

Create a lesson, worksheet, or class page, and publish it online right away [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Zoom-in Inquiry

High school teacher Joe Jelen introduces the primary source analysis [...] »

Recording Experiences with First Graders

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!

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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 [...] »

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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