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

Facebook

Does Facebook in the history classroom take social networking too far? Maybe [...] »

Vimeo
screenshot from a Vimeo video

YouTube blocked at your school? Video uploading site Vimeo is here for you [...] »

Mission US: For Crown or Colony

Immerse your students in the 1770s with this online game.

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Analyzing Campaign Commercials

Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School brings modern and historical [...] »

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 [...] »

Ask a Digital Historian

Historic Images are Everywhere

Needed: directions to reliable databases for historic images.

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