Education News

Central European Educators Attend Master Teacher Workshop at USC Shoah Foundation

Three graduates of USC Shoah Foundation’s Master Teacher program in Central Europe traveled to Los Angeles this week for additional training to take their use of IWitness and testimony to the next…
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

‘Stronger Than Hate’ Initiative: USC Shoah Foundation to Offer Resources and Training to Counter Hate

The violent antisemitic and racist hatred seen in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month combined Nazi ideology with white supremacy and drew from the dark historical legacies of the Holocaust…
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Testimonies Train Teachers to Conduct Cultural Sensitivity Workshops in Ukraine

Educators learned how Holocaust survivor testimonies from the Visual History Archive can help them teach early conflict prevention and cultural sensitivity at a workshop led by USC Shoah Foundation’s…
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Testimonies Train Teachers to Conduct Cultural Sensitivity Workshops in Ukraine

Educators learned how Holocaust survivor testimonies from the Visual History Archive can help them teach early conflict prevention and cultural sensitivity at a workshop led by USC Shoah Foundation’s…
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Back to School with IWitness 2018: Updates to Video Editor WeVideo

In this series, we take a closer look at the new features and resources coming to IWitness in time for the 2017-2018 school year. IWitness is enhancing its cloud-based video-editing service…
Friday, July 28, 2017

Back to School with IWitness 2018: Updates to Video Editor WeVideo

In this series, we take a closer look at the new features and resources coming to IWitness in time for the 2017-2018 school year. IWitness is enhancing its cloud-based video-editing service…
Friday, July 28, 2017

Holocaust Educator Network Seminars Across America Feature IWitness

IWitness was a featured component of three training sessions hosted by the Holocaust Educators Network (HEN) this month. Supported by the Memorial Library, the Manhattan-based Holocaust…
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Inaugural “Teach for Ukraine” Training Program Includes IWitness Workshop

Teach for Ukraine – a two-year teaching program similar to Teach for America – began training its first cohort last week, and part of that training included a workshop on IWitness and constructivist…
Monday, July 24, 2017

Inaugural “Teach for Ukraine” Training Program Includes IWitness Workshop

Teach for Ukraine – a two-year teaching program similar to Teach for America – began training its first cohort last week, and part of that training included a workshop on IWitness and constructivist…
Monday, July 24, 2017

Back to School with IWitness 2018: Teaching with VR

In this series, we take a closer look at the new features and resources coming to IWitness in time for the 2017-2018 school year. For the first time this fall, IWitness will begin offering virtual…
Friday, July 7, 2017