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

Skype
skype, cassedy elementary class

Bring experts into the classroom or meet students from around the globe with [...] »

Evernote

Keep track of and share notes with this tool for teachers or students.

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Little Bird Tales

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

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 [...] »

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 [...] »

Ask a Digital Historian

Historic Images are Everywhere

Needed: directions to reliable databases for historic images.

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