Welcome to Digital Classroom

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!

Recording Experiences with First Graders
In Beyond the Chalkboard

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

Download and save videos from the web with this handy tool. Read on for instructions!

KeepVid
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

Padlet

Facilitate dialogue in the history classroom with this online bulletin board [...] »

SurveyMonkey

Digitize class surveys and poll student knowledge with this tool.

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Sutori

Sutori is a digital tool that allows teachers to gather their material in [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Introduction to Google Docs
Screencapture, Google Docs account, Google

What exactly is Google Docs and how can you use it to encourage [...] »

Creating Campaign Commercials

Students in Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School's class script and [...] »

Whiteboard Basics

Using a whiteboard for the first time? Educator Simon Botten shares [...] »

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Ask a Digital Historian

Finding Skype Collaborators

Classrooms can communicate locally and globally via Skype. Why not join the [...] »

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