Welcome to Digital Classroom

Students pay more attention to texts than emails? Speak to them in their own language with tools that protect professional distance and privacy.

Group Text-Messaging Tools
In Tech for Teachers

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

Chronozoom
In Tech for Teachers

Discover new classroom possibilities with this easy-to-use video presentation tool.

Animoto
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 »

Tech for Teachers

Digital classroom tools

Search Engines

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

IWitness

Delve into 20th-century history with Holocaust survivor and witness [...] »

Edpuzzle

Edpuzzle is a digital tool that lets you [...] »

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Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Crosscurricular Multimedia: AP U.S. History and Govt Classes Collaborate
Detail, homepage, student website, http://web.me.com/sorexvanity/Social_Security

Two teachers brought their classrooms together to talk about the national [...] »

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 [...] »

Advanced Whiteboard Techniques

Educator Simon Botten demonstrates whiteboard techniques for history and [...] »

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When Copyright Meets the Classroom

Understanding fair use and public domain are key to navigating through the [...] »

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