Welcome to Digital Classroom

Encourage students to think critically about website content by introducing evaluation criteria and rubrics.

Is the Internet a Reliable Source for History Content?
In Ask a Digital Historian

Chronozoom is a dynamic timeline tool that presents large scale timelines in a creative way.

Chronozoom
In Tech for Teachers

Students pay more attention to texts than emails? Speak to them in their own language with tools that protect professional distance and privacy.

Group Text-Messaging Tools
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

Diigo

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

Neatline

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

Google Forms

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

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

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

Crosscurricular Multimedia: AP U.S. History and Govt Classes Collaborate
Detail, homepage, student website, http://web.me.com/sorexvanity/Social_Security

Two teachers brought their classrooms together to talk about the national [...] »

Recording Experiences with First Graders

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!

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Ask a Digital Historian

Beyond Google Searching

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

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