Welcome to Digital Classroom

Primary and Secondary Sources through Video
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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

Popplet

Brainstorm and organize ideas with this easy-to-use visual tool.

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Cacoo

Develop graphic organizers, charts, and other visualizations collaboratively [...] »

Google Docs
Screenshot, Tour, Google Docs

Create, share, and collaborate with this free word-processing tool!

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

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 [...] »

Recording Experiences with First Graders

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!

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Twitter in Large Classrooms
Screencapture, The Twitter Experiment - Twistory in the Classroom

Professor Dr. Monica Rankin uses Twitter to make student participation [...] »

Ask a Digital Historian

Crafting Digital Stories
Screencap, Collage of Digital Resources, 7 May 2012

Don't just test students, allow them to create! Discover digital tools that [...] »