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Welcome to Digital Classroom

Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School brings modern and historical elections home to her students using campaign ads.

Analyzing Campaign Commercials

In Beyond the Chalkboard

Screencapture, The Twitter Experiment - Twistory in the Classroom

Professor Dr. Monica Rankin uses Twitter to make student participation easier in large classrooms.

Twitter in Large Classrooms

In Beyond the Chalkboard

Screenshot, home page, Web Poster Wizard

Create a lesson, worksheet, or class page, and publish it online right away.

Web Poster Wizard

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. [...] »

Blogs

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

Set up and moderate an entire elementary class's worth of blogs at once.

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

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

Choose Your Own Adventure Videos

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

Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures

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

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Digital Tools: Outfitting a Teacher's Arsenal

Ensure technology serves history and not vice-versa. Find out how!

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