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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

Zotero

Zotero makes gathering, annotating, organizing, and cross-referencing [...] »

SurveyMonkey

Digitize class surveys and poll student knowledge with this tool.

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Skype
skype, cassedy elementary class

Bring experts into the classroom or meet students from around the globe with [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Twitter in Large Classrooms
Screencapture, The Twitter Experiment - Twistory in the Classroom

Professor Dr. Monica Rankin uses Twitter to make student participation [...] »

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 [...] »

Whiteboard Basics

Using a whiteboard for the first time? Educator Simon Botten shares [...] »

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Primary and Secondary Sources through Video
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Can video help me teach about primary and secondary sources?

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