Nancy Weiderman

OCSS Conference 2016

Digital History Interviews

Nancy Weiderman – Participant

Unknown – Recorder

Ryan Oberlin – Transcriber

Recorder: Your name and school.

Nancy Weiderman: I’m Nancy Weiderman, I’m from Hillsboro Middle School.

Recorder: And how many years have you been attending OCSS?

Nancy Weiderman: This is my first year also.

Recorder: And, other than this session, what is your favorite session from OCSS?

Nancy Weiderman: I’m learning about the digital tools that are available, like you said, the free ones, and the ones, there was another session where they talked about text to speech and speech to text for children who are a little deficient in those areas.

Recorder: And what benefits do you have from attending OCSS?

Nancy Weiderman: As you said also, the free things that you can take back and I think I know enough about the digital process that I can put them to work right now.

Recorder: And what are your ideas for using digital history in your classroom?

Nancy Weiderman: Well, Hillsboro had a part in the Prohibition, so some of those things and we were on the Underground Railroad and I think we are, after Brown v. Board of Education, the first public school that put that to the test. So maybe a lab class on the extra class I’m teaching this year, not so much in our American History curriculum, the time periods don’t match up, but I could see what you could do it with some of those topics in Hillsboro.