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

Zotero

Zotero makes gathering, annotating, organizing, and cross-referencing [...] »

Scribblar

Teach in a virtual classroom? Try this collaborative online whiteboard tool [...] »

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

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 [...] »

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 [...] »

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

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

Ask a Digital Historian

Surfing the Web Successfully

Online searching got you down? Try using these tips and tricks in your next [...] »