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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

Historypin

Historypin is a digital mapping tool that ties collections of items with [...] »

Blogs

Learn how to use blogs as communication channels and pedagogical tools.

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Neatline

Neatline is a digital tool that plots [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Whiteboard Basics

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

Choose Your Own Adventure Videos
Video still, Project 2, The History 2.0 Classroom, creative commons

Remember Choose Your Own Adventure stories? Borrow the idea for video [...] »

Zoom-in Inquiry

High school teacher Joe Jelen introduces the primary source analysis [...] »

Ask a Digital Historian

When Copyright Meets the Classroom

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