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

LucidChart

Map the twists and turns of a process or historical narrative with this [...] »

Ning

Network with other teachers, or encourage your students to match minds [...] »

Voki

Bring history to life and protect student identity with personalized [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Screencapture, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom, January 25, 2010

See how one 8th-grade teacher introduced herself to digital storytelling [...] »

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

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

Recording Experiences with First Graders

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!

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