Welcome to Digital Classroom
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
Search Engines
Beyond Google: effective use of search engines takes careful critical [...] »
Little Bird Tales
K-6 teachers, worried that your students aren't ready for digital tools? [...] »
Beyond the Chalkboard
Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies
Recording Experiences with First Graders
Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!
[...] »Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures
Students interact with history by creating Facebook fan pages for historical [...] »
Advanced Whiteboard Techniques
Educator Simon Botten demonstrates whiteboard techniques for history and [...] »
Ask a Digital Historian
Beyond Google Searching
Google is great, but not always applicable to the history classroom. [...] »