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TimelineJS is a digital mapping tool that turns spreadsheets into interactive maps.

TimelineJS
In Tech for Teachers

Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School brings modern and historical elections home to her students using campaign ads.

Analyzing Campaign Commercials
In Beyond the Chalkboard

Google is great, but not always applicable to the history classroom. Discover a whole new world of academic online searching.

Beyond Google Searching
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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

Little Bird Tales

K-6 teachers, worried that your students aren't ready for digital tools? [...] »

myHistro
Detail, homepage, myHistro, 2013

Combine maps and a timeline to tell the story of change over time and place [...] »

Omeka

Ready to curate an online exhibit, put together a portfolio, or create a [...] »

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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 [...] »

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 [...] »

Creating Campaign Commercials

Students in Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School's class script and [...] »

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Ask a Digital Historian

Primary and Secondary Sources through Video
primary and secondary source wordle

Can video help me teach about primary and secondary sources?

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