Lebensgeschichten mit sechs Worten
Vielleicht kennen Sie die Geschichte über Ernest Hemingway. Jemand forderte ihn heraus, dass er keine Lebensgeschichte in 6 Worten schreiben könnte. Hemingways Antwort: For sale: Baby shoes, never worn...
View ArticleMeine Lieblingsstadt
Meine Lieblingsstadt in Deutschland sind eigentlich drei Staedte: Zunaechst einmal Gotha, meine Heimatstadt. Man kann Bilder hier rechts sehen. Sie hat das groesste Barockschloss in Deutschland. Ich...
View ArticleFreshman Seminar Workshop
I am sitting in a two-day workshop on freshman seminars (FSEM). Together with ca. 45 other colleagues, some of whom have taught or will teach a FSEM , we are discussing ways to design a successful...
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Some reflections on Weller’s “Digital Scholar”– Digital Natives
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...
View ArticleFirst online course
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...
View ArticleThe Holocaust in the High School German Classroom
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...
View ArticleDer Holocaust im Deutschunterricht
Liebe Kollegen, ich wäre daran interessiert zu erfahren, inwieweit der Nationalsozialismus und der Holocaust eine Rolle in Ihrem Landeskundeunterricht (Geschichtslektion?) spielen. Ich unterrichte an...
View ArticleSo, how did the online course go?
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...
View ArticleAdvent Calendars
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...
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