It seems that the German tradition of counting down the 24 days of December to Christmas Eve has take hold not only in the supermarkets here in the U.S., but also on the web. While 10 years ago, I had family send over those often chocolate-filled, visually appealing calendars, they are now everywhere. Internet versions […]
That’s what some of my colleagues asked me after the summer was over and the fall semester had started again. I gave most of them the “elevator version” answer: better than I thought, surprisingly well, a few tweaks are necessary… And indeed, with all the anxiety and self-doubt beforehand, I was pleasantly surprised about the […]
Liebe Kollegen, ich wäre daran interessiert zu erfahren, inwieweit der Nationalsozialismus und der Holocaust eine Rolle in Ihrem Landeskundeunterricht (Geschichtslektion?) spielen. Ich unterrichte an einer Uni in den USA sowohl Deutsch (A1-C1) als auch Germanistik (Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte). Unser Germanistik-Programm schließt auch die Vermittlung von Literatur zum Holocaust (z.B. Paul Celan) als theoretische Ansätze zur […]
Dear colleagues, I would be interested to learn to what extent National Socialism and the Holocaust play a role in your high school German classroom (Landeskunde)? I teach at a university in the United States both German (Beginners to Advanced) and German (literarture and cultural history ) . Our German program includes the teaching of […]
One of the first assignments in our course was to watch the documentary A Film Unfinished, which tries to contextualize raw footage for an intended Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto that was found in East-German archives after World War II. The reflections by the students were quite insightful and picked up on a number […]
July 24 came faster than I thought. Today, my first online course The Holocaust and the Humanities in the 21st Century starts. While the course uses mainly Canvas, our LMS, as platform, students will use blogs for reflection and responses. You can follow the class blog and see the feeds.
To be honest, Weller’s discussion of digital scholarship (chapter 4) leaves me conflicted. While I would definitely appreciate more open access to scholarship online, I am also worried about the abuse. Authorship – the now classic New Yorker cartoon (below) applies to academic authorship as well. Of course,the open access would make it also possible to improve […]
In chapter 2, Weller makes the argument that our students have changed and provides data on how much time today’s students read in comparison to play online and watch TV. He quotes Oblinger (2005) and Grunwald (2003) that found that students want from the Internet mostly “new information’ and “learn more or learn better.” I find that […]
I had password troubles earlier with the domain, but it’s all ironed out now. Then I came across this:
Here is to a new beginning in blogging. After a number of years behind Blackboard and Canvas walls, my university’s Domain of One’s Own project triggers me to write down my thoughts on the process of getting my own web domain (www.marcelrotter.net) in a more public way. The first challenge – choosing a domain name. […]