Welcome to Digital Classroom

Network with other teachers, or encourage your students to match minds outside of the classroom.

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In Tech for Teachers

Classrooms can communicate locally and globally via Skype. Why not join the conversation?

Finding Skype Collaborators
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Edpuzzle is a digital tool that lets you edit videos, add comments, and add quizzes to them.

Edpuzzle
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

Skype
skype, cassedy elementary class

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

Facebook

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

Whiteboards

So now you have a whiteboard. Do you know how to use it effectively?

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Introduction to Google Docs
Screencapture, Google Docs account, Google

What exactly is Google Docs and how can you use it to encourage [...] »

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

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

Recording Experiences with First Graders

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!

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Ask a Digital Historian

Introducing Students to Interactive Whiteboards
Photo, Multi touching on a rear projection. . . , 2009, pablog61, Flickr, cc

SMART boards are only as useful as you make them.

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