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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
Slideshare
Share away on this YouTube-style site for PowerPoint, PDF, and OpenOffice [...] »
Mind Mapping: Visualizing Historical Thought
Discover the extent of students' understanding of historical subjects with [...] »
Beyond the Chalkboard
Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies
Recording Experiences with First Graders
Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!
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Using a whiteboard for the first time? Educator Simon Botten shares [...] »
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
See how one 8th-grade teacher introduced herself to digital storytelling [...] »
Ask a Digital Historian
Wikipedia: Credible Research Source or Not?
Factual accuracy isn't the main deterrent to citing Wikipedia.
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