Cybrary Learning Lab

Imagine Peace

Notes from the Web Source

Education as Dialogue: Learning With the Web

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The Web, like education, is about dialogue. This new two-way medium of the Web offers us many opportunities, if we use them correctly. Like democracy, it only works if you participate.

The Cybrary is working because of people like Harold Gordon, Stuart Nichols, and Joey Korn. All three have given us a tremendous push by sharing content, ideas, and helping bring shape to this educational site. The Cybrary is an always continuing work in progress, sculpted by the thoughts, inspirations, and opinions of our audience. My work with all three have taught me much, as well as providing materials for you to view and give feedback on. In the coming months I will detail how these represent, to me, a strength of the Web; participation.

The Web is in need of new content, generated not from a single viewpoint but from a collection of opinions. This isn’t to say the Cybrary will provide answers to your questions, or even solutions. This site is simply a point, among many others, for learning about the Holocaust. We are part of a growing Web, dedicated to never forgetting what happened, to “Never Again”. Learning with the Web means building a Web of sites, people, and information about a specific subject. The dialogue we share comes from links, content, and learning materials. But most of all, it comes from you, the person interested enough to seek out more materials. Interested in creating your own educational materials, Web sites, or viewpoints. You are what make this Web, not the sites. It’s your interest, the need to learn and remember, that is the driving force.

The Cybrary is online for dialogue. Checkout our site in October’s Wired, in the NetSurf section for Web sites. And let us know where other projects are, so we can link to them.

Until later…peace.

Past Issues:

July: Cybrary Learning Lab

August: Online Education and Why We Call This a Cybrary

Online Education

More and more people are getting in touch with us about educational sites either on the Web or soon to come into existence. Please letus know so we can include them in our links and feature them in our monthly update. We are not involved with any of these, other than to recommend that you check them out:

• New online class! The Holocaust: Foundation, Tragedy, and Aftermath
  California State University, Chico’s Continuing Education Department features this class taught by Professors Sam and Carol Edelman. A three unit course offered Fall 1995 by California State University, Chico (for either graduate or undergraduate credit). Non-credit enrollment options at a reduced price are also available. Open for enrollment until November.
• New! Simon Wiesenthal Center at: https://www.wiesenthal.com/
  From their site: “The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international center for Holocaust remembrance and the defense of human rights and the Jewish people. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Center’s mandate is a unique combination of social action, public outreach, scholarship, education and media projects as it imparts the lessons of the Holocaust and develops educational strategies for teaching tolerance.”
• New! THE COMPLETE MAUS CD-ROM byVoyager
  This CD-ROM is an in-depth look at Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel. It includes the audio of interviews Art conducted with his father (who was interned at Auschwitz) and gobs of other info. Located at: https://www.voyagerco.com/CD/ph/p.maus.htmlIF MONKS HADMACS… has an intriguing HyperCard stack on the White Rose. Located at: https://www.voyagerco.com/CD/gh/inside/p.monks.html
• New! The Auschwitz Alphabet
  Jonathan Blumen has an intriguing site, inspired by Primo Levi and arranged around an alphabet of learning, at: https://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html .

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