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

NewsTrust

Do more than read the news—assess it, with the help of NewsTrust's community [...] »

VoiceThread

A multimedia collaborative tool with the American Association of School [...] »

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Whiteboard Basics

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

Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures

Students interact with history by creating Facebook fan pages for historical [...] »

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 [...] »

Ask a Digital Historian

Wikipedia: Credible Research Source or Not?

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

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