Web 2.0 tools offer new possibilities for teaching and learning. PrimaryAccess is a Web 2.0 tool designed for K-12 history education. PrimaryAccess shares many of the characteristics of other Web 2.0 applications, but its educational focus makes it different from generic Web applications. Our work developing and researching PrimaryAccess has helped identify the tensions and opportunities for integrating Web 2.0 tools into K-12 instruction. Web 2.0 tool development and use are best explored in a disciplinary context. Mishra and Koehler's construct of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) provides a useful framework for this research and development process.

We have created a fully functional, open source HTML5 visualization tool built around the interpretive tasks of assembling collections of historic maps for analysis, arranging them in rich geospatial contexts, and presenting them to viewers in dynamic and interactive websites that we we call digital atlases. We have disseminated this tool and its productions in a variety of ways and will continue to do so. S. Max Edelson has presented MapScholar presentations to a number of academic and public audiences; and Edelson and Bill Ferster have created a digital humanities curriculum at the University of Virginia at the graduate and undergraduate level featuring MapScholar (and other instructors have made use of it at other universities). MapScholar will be showcased and publicized though Edelson's forthcoming trade publication: The New Map of

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