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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

NewsTrust

Do more than read the news—assess it, with the help of NewsTrust's community [...] »

Evernote

Keep track of and share notes with this tool for teachers or students.

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IWitness

Delve into 20th-century history with Holocaust survivor and witness [...] »

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 [...] »

VoiceThread in a 1st-grade Classroom

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

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When Copyright Meets the Classroom

Understanding fair use and public domain are key to navigating through the [...] »