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Facilitate dialogue in the history classroom with this online bulletin board maker.

Padlet
In Tech for Teachers

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

Chronozoom
In Tech for Teachers

Students pay more attention to texts than emails? Speak to them in their own language with tools that protect professional distance and privacy.

Group Text-Messaging Tools
In Tech for Teachers

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

Popplet

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

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Canva

A digital design tool home to over 10,000 different templates.

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Social Pinboards

Organize and share your online finds using online social pinboard services [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

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

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

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 [...] »

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

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

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Ask a Digital Historian

History and New Media
Photo, Digital Beijing Building 数字北京大厦, Sanctu, Flickr

New media tools—invaluable resources or menaces of the digital age?

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