Digital tools change how we think about learning and teaching.  How to know if it's worth it:  Choose.  Practice.  Repeat.

Wordpress allows for the creation of robust yet user-friendly platforms.  View this video introducing a recent course blog for a seminar on Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Women Poets.

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Diigo is a terrific on-line platform that may be used to create, save and share annotated  bibliographies of any topic, drawing on the multimedia resources of the web.  For a seminar on Israeli life-writing, students created a collaborative bibliography to help them fill in their own gaps in historical background, and follow-up threads of personal interest to them in the assigned readings.

Use Google Maps to create a sense of space and place while studying urban fiction like, for example, Henry Roth's classic New York novel, Call it Sleep (1934).