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K-6 teachers, worried that your students aren't ready for digital tools? Check out this storytelling site!

Little Bird Tales
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Chronozoom is a dynamic timeline tool that presents large scale timelines in a creative way.

Chronozoom
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Direct your students through the historical research process with these digital resources.

Using the Web to Learn Research and Presentation Skills
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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 »

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Digital classroom tools

Dropbox

Back up files and share documents anywhere with this online storage tool. [...] »

Google Earth

Bring geography into the history classroom with resources from Google Earth [...] »

Whiteboards

So now you have a whiteboard. Do you know how to use it effectively?

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Whiteboard Basics

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

Zoom-in Inquiry

High school teacher Joe Jelen introduces the primary source analysis [...] »

VoiceThread in a 1st-grade Classroom

Students are never too young for digital tools—watch first graders use [...] »

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Finding Skype Collaborators

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

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