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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

Mind Mapping: Visualizing Historical Thought

Discover the extent of students' understanding of historical subjects with [...] »

Evernote

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

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myHistro
Detail, homepage, myHistro, 2013

Combine maps and a timeline to tell the story of change over time and place [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures

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

Whiteboards and the Youngest Children
Screencapture, Five-Year-Olds Pilot Their Own Project Learning, May 9, 2007

Watch kindergarten classes engage in project-based learning using new [...] »

Whiteboard Basics

Using a whiteboard for the first time? Educator Simon Botten shares [...] »

Ask a Digital Historian

Wikipedia: Credible Research Source or Not?

Factual accuracy isn't the main deterrent to citing Wikipedia.

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