This semester I created a new midterm assignment for my students: The Most Important Thing. The assignment asked them to explore the most important thing they had learned so far in the course. They could do it in essay form, but I encouraged students to consider also […]
My thoughts about technology in the classroom are framed by two experiences: Circa 1992 I feel fortunate to have a computer in my house now that I am in grad school. In college, such a luxury was unthinkable. Now I can sit in front of the computer […]
I am currently working on a project about Holocaust memory, motivated by the question: Where does Holocaust memory live? As a teacher of the Holocaust for twenty years, I know that Holocaust memory lives inside survivors and those of us who have been touched by […]
I’ve had students make digital stories in two of my courses so far. In Spring 2012, I had students create digital stories as part of a grant on the use of mobile technologies. Whereas I had previously had students make digital stories using VoiceThread, in […]
At the end of November, I gave a public talk and lead a teacher training at the University of South Florida. Mark Greenberg has done a great job with USF’s Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, and I really enjoyed meeting the folks there and […]
Rachel N. Baum 