Lynn Zimmerman teaches diversity and multicultural education courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the School of Education. She earned a BA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master of science in library science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a PhD at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Zimmerman served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Poland from 1992-1994 teaching English as a foreign language to Polish high school students. She has returned to Poland on a number of occasions, where she has taught English to Polish high school students in summer language immersion camps, helped clean up grave sites in the Jewish cemetery on which Plaszow concentration camp was built, and worked with senior citizens who wanted to improve their English skills. She will be returning to Poland in February 2009 on a teaching Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Wroclaw in southwest Poland.
Zimmerman’s research interests are varied, reflecting her work in diversity and multicultural education. Zimmerman is a frequent speaker at regional, national, and international conferences, and has written numerous articles on topics as varied as English as a second language (ESL) issues, immigration, race, sexual orientation, and Holocaust education.
ETC Publications
The Holocaust and Technology
Twitter Could Drive You Cuckoo
‘College for $99 a Month’ – Persons Are Important, Presence Is Not?
Computers in the Classroom Can Be Boring
ESL/EFL Teachers and How They Use Technology
A Digital Educator in Poland
Hybrid, Online, or F2F – It Depends
Access: The New Imperialism?
Resistance to Technology: Conscious or Unconscious?
Filed under: Uncategorized
