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

Commonlit

Commonlit is a digital library that has on-page tools to better reading [...] »

Document Cameras
Photo, explaining w/ document camera, January 4, 2004, roswellsgirl, Flickr

Liberate yourself from overhead projectors with these versatile pieces of [...] »

Mission US: For Crown or Colony

Immerse your students in the 1770s with this online game.

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Analyzing Campaign Commercials

Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School brings modern and historical [...] »

Using Skype in the Classroom
Photo, Flat Classroom Skype, November 29, 2008, superkimbo, Flickr

Educator Silvia Tolisano introduces voice-chat tool Skype and its use in the [...] »

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

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

Ask a Digital Historian

Beyond Google Searching

Google is great, but not always applicable to the history classroom. [...] »