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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

Facebook

Does Facebook in the history classroom take social networking too far? Maybe [...] »

Popplet

Brainstorm and organize ideas with this easy-to-use visual tool.

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Dropbox

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

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

VoiceThread in a 1st-grade Classroom

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

Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures

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

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

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

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Using the Web to Learn Research and Presentation Skills

Direct your students through the historical research process with these [...] »

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