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

Google Forms

Collect information from your students and your peers with Google Forms.

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SurveyMonkey

Digitize class surveys and poll student knowledge with this tool.

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Diigo

Bookmark, organize, annotate, and share research and resources with Diigo. [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Whiteboard Basics

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

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

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

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 [...] »

Ask a Digital Historian

Beyond Google Searching

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