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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

Whiteboards

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

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Google Docs
Screenshot, Tour, Google Docs

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

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WhatWasThere
screencap, WhatWasThere street view, 16 December, Whatwasthere.com

Put the past next to the present with this photo-sharing and mapping tool. [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Zoom-in Inquiry

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

Using Skype in the Classroom
Photo, Flat Classroom Skype, November 29, 2008, superkimbo, Flickr

Educator Silvia Tolisano introduces voice-chat tool Skype and its use in the [...] »

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

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

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KeepVid

Download and save videos from the web with this handy tool. Read on for [...] »