Welcome to Digital Classroom

Screencapture, Five-Year-Olds Pilot Their Own Project Learning, May 9, 2007

Watch kindergarten classes engage in project-based learning using new technologies.

Whiteboards and the Youngest Children
In Beyond the Chalkboard

Construct your own short films demonstrating historical thinking.

PrimaryAccess
In Tech for Teachers

Needed: directions to reliable databases for historic images.

Historic Images are Everywhere
In Ask a Digital Historian

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

RSS

Keep up with your favorite places on the Web with Really Simple Syndication [...] »

Evernote

Keep track of and share notes with this tool for teachers or students.

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IWitness

Delve into 20th-century history with Holocaust survivor and witness [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

VoiceThread in a 1st-grade Classroom

Students are never too young for digital tools—watch first graders use [...] »

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 [...] »

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 [...] »

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Ask a Digital Historian

History and New Media
Photo, Digital Beijing Building 数字北京大厦, Sanctu, Flickr

New media tools—invaluable resources or menaces of the digital age?

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