Social Media in Holocaust Education

Alex Maws and Kori Street

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The US Department of Education defined social media as “Any form of online publication or presence that allows interactive communication (monologue or multi-logue), including, but not limited to, social networks, blogs, internet websites,

Internet forums, and wikis.” Similarly, an EU Commissioned European study about using social media in higher education defined social media as Web 2.0’ ‘Read-Write Web’, allowing everyone to publish resources on the web using simple and open, personal and collaborative publishing tools, aka social software. It is characterized as dynamic, open and freely available. Examples of social media include blogs, wikis,

social bookmarking systems, podcasts etc.

AIMS NOT GADGETS

DIGITAL INTERACTIVE

SOCIAL

@87andyheron87 What were your thoughts and emotions during Kristallnacht? Were u scared? #AskBibring @Vimla16 Have you ever been back to Vienna and visited the site of your father’s shop? @brianm What do you think Kristallnacht specifically can teach us so that such persecution can never happen again? @eve_williams After the persecution of Jews, such as on Kristallnacht, are you still religious? @ruthie What are your memories of your first few days in England? Did you find it easy to settle in?