Welcome to Digital Classroom

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

Popplet
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Discover a whole new world of mapping and geography with Google Maps!

Google Maps
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Chronozoom is a dynamic timeline tool that presents large scale timelines in a creative way.

Chronozoom
In Tech for Teachers

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 »

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Digital classroom tools

Commonlit

Commonlit is a digital library that has on-page tools to better reading [...] »

Google Earth

Bring geography into the history classroom with resources from Google Earth [...] »

Facebook

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

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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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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 [...] »

Whiteboard Basics

Using a whiteboard for the first time? Educator Simon Botten shares [...] »

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Wikipedia: Credible Research Source or Not?

Factual accuracy isn't the main deterrent to citing Wikipedia.

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