Welcome to Digital Classroom

Introducing Students to Interactive Whiteboards
In Ask a Digital Historian
Whiteboards and the Youngest Children
In Beyond the Chalkboard

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

Search Engines

Beyond Google: effective use of search engines takes careful critical [...] »

Diigo

Bookmark, organize, annotate, and share research and resources with Diigo. [...] »

Social Pinboards

Organize and share your online finds using online social pinboard services [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Recording Experiences with First Graders

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!

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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 [...] »