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

Twitter

Does Twitter have value as an educational tool, or does it promote [...] »

Chronozoom

Chronozoom is a dynamic timeline [...] »

myHistro
Detail, homepage, myHistro, 2013

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

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Analyzing Campaign Commercials

Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School brings modern and historical [...] »

Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures

Students interact with history by creating Facebook fan pages for historical [...] »

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 [...] »

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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