Group Text-Messaging Tools
Students pay more attention to texts than emails? Speak to them in their own language with tools that protect professional distance and privacy.
Introducing Teachinghistory.org Mobile
Have you ever wanted to access Teachinghistory.org on the go? Now you can!
Jennifer Orr Wins ISTE Kay L. Bitter Vision Award
Congratulations to Teachinghistory.org writer Jennifer Orr, winner of the 2012 Kay L. Bitter Vision Award for Excellence in Technology-Based PK-12 Education!
Crafting Digital Stories
Don’t just test students, allow them to create! Discover digital tools that help students share history knowledge.
Teachinghistory.org’s AHA Workshop: Teaching the Past in a Digital World
Missed our workshop at the American Historical Association in Chicago? Catch a recap here.
Creating Cartoons: Pixton & ToonDoo
Maximize student creativity with these tools that let students create their own cartoons.
Teaching and Learning History in the Digital Age (AHA 2011)
Rwany Sibaja recaps our presentation at the 2011 American Historical Association conference in Boston.
Joe Jelen on Digital Timelines
Tired of using up rolls of butcher paper on making timelines? High-school teacher Joe Jelen recommends flexible online timeline-building tools, instead.
Document Cameras
Liberate yourself from overhead projectors with these versatile pieces of hardware.
Top Tens, or "Best Sites for..."
Are lists of Bests valuable?
Bookmark This! Teachers, Teens, and Technology
Who does what with technology?
The People Speak: To Zinn or Not to Zinn
Howard Zinn is controversial and he makes students think.
A National Plan for Educational Technology
No technology for technology’s sake.
Primary Sources, Historical Reenactments, and Twitter
A new approach to leading your students through primary sources.
Bookmark This! Free Maps!
If all you need are basic maps for classroom exercises, this may be the place!
Especially for Secondary School Teachers: American History on Facebook
History and art museums, archives, and libraries share information and resources via Facebook.
ROTFLOL?* President John Quincy Adams Twittered?
Media change, but do the messages?
Especially for Teachers: Annenberg Media's Online U.S. History Textbook
Here’s a digital textbook for teachers packed with resources.
Teaching without Textbooks?
Can’t live with them; can’t live without them?
School Internet Firewalls: Hindrance or Help?
Co-director of EdTechTeacher.org and former high school teacher Justin Reich thinks firewalls keep students from thinking critically about internet use and teachers from exploiting massive amounts of web-based resources.
John Brown, Harpers Ferry, Students, History and Technology
Middle school students interpret history at Harpers Ferry.
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2009 Horizon Report: Emerging Technologies in Higher Education
A discussion of six emerging technologies and their role in education.
Schools and Social Networking Tools
Schools are beginning to treat social networking tools as an essential part of preparing students for the 21st century.
Chronicling America Newspaper Site Adds More Pages, Features
More than 79,000 newly digitized newspaper pages, along with several new site features, have recently been added to the Chronicling America Web site of the Library of Congress.
Technology in the Classroom: Wikis
Wiki Wisdom: Lessons for Educators (EdWeek, September 12, 2007) by instructional-technology coach Kristin Hokason offers an overview on using wikis in the classroom.