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TimelineJS is a digital mapping tool that turns spreadsheets into interactive maps.

TimelineJS
In Tech for Teachers

Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School brings modern and historical elections home to her students using campaign ads.

Analyzing Campaign Commercials
In Beyond the Chalkboard

Google is great, but not always applicable to the history classroom. Discover a whole new world of academic online searching.

Beyond Google Searching
In Ask a Digital Historian

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

LiveBinders

Bookmark, store, and share online resources.

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Google Docs
Screenshot, Tour, Google Docs

Create, share, and collaborate with this free word-processing tool!

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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

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

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

Zoom-in Inquiry

High school teacher Joe Jelen introduces the primary source analysis [...] »

Analyzing Campaign Commercials

Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School brings modern and historical [...] »

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Ask a Digital Historian

Finding a Speaker Willing to Use Digital Networks

Bring history to life with Skype and other digital technologies.

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