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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

Popplet

Brainstorm and organize ideas with this easy-to-use visual tool.

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Slideshare
Screenshot, Home page, Slideshare

Share away on this YouTube-style site for PowerPoint, PDF, and OpenOffice [...] »

Flickr

Use pictures to teach and learn history—and explore copyright issues.

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

VoiceThread in a 1st-grade Classroom

Students are never too young for digital tools—watch first graders use [...] »

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 [...] »

Whiteboards and the Youngest Children
Screencapture, Five-Year-Olds Pilot Their Own Project Learning, May 9, 2007

Watch kindergarten classes engage in project-based learning using new [...] »

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Ask a Digital Historian

Just Blog About It! (Part 1)

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

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