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

Group Text-Messaging Tools

Students pay more attention to texts than emails? Speak to them in their own [...] »

PrintFriendly

Print documents free of ads, hyperlinks, and other visual clutter.

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Facebook

Does Facebook in the history classroom take social networking too far? Maybe [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

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 [...] »

Creating Campaign Commercials

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

Ask a Digital Historian

Just Blog About It! (Part 1)

Everything you ever wanted to know about blogs, and more!

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