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

History and New Media
In Ask a Digital Historian

Chronozoom is a dynamic timeline tool that presents large scale timelines in a creative way.

Chronozoom
In Tech for Teachers

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

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In Tech for Teachers

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

Sutori

Sutori is a digital tool that allows teachers to gather their material in [...] »

Facebook

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

VoiceThread

A multimedia collaborative tool with the American Association of School [...] »

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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 [...] »

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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Just Blog About It! (Part 1)

Everything you ever wanted to know about blogs, and more!

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