Institute, ADL Teacher Training, November 2012
The Institute and the Anti-Defamation League held a workshop in November, where nearly 50 Southern California teachers learned to use Echoes and Reflections, a multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust. The workshop also included training on the Institute's IWitness website. More
Album posted on: December 12, 2012
Institute, Anti-Defamation League train Southern California teachers: Workshop on Echoes and Reflections, IWitness
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education and the Anti-Defamation League held a workshop in November where nearly 50 Southern California teachers learned to use Echoes and Reflections, a multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust.
"London Calling": Czech online resource focuses on government-in-exile during WWII
Holocaust survivor testimony has made possible a Czech-language resource for education that illuminates the wartime history of the Czech government-in-exile.
Institute honored by Arpa International Film Festival
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education received the Arpa Foundation Award of the 2012 Arpa International Film Festival. The Institute was recognized for "its outstanding achievement in Holocaust education and preservation of testimonies of survivors." Executive Director Stephen D. Smith accepted the award on behalf of the Institute at the December 2 gala awards banquet in Los Angeles.
Seminar for activist-teachers in Slovakia: Focus on Holocaust education, testimony in the classroom
The Institute and Yad Vashem are reaching out to teachers in Slovakia who have shown a commitment to Holocaust documentation and tolerance education. On November 18, Martin Šmok, the Institute’s Senior International Program Consultant, presented at a Yad Vashem seminar hosted by the Holocaust Documentation Center. Nineteen activist-teachers attended the seminar, where Šmok gave an overview of the Institute and its mission to make survivor testimony a compelling voice for education and action.
USC Dornsife's smartphone-interactive feature on the Institute: Augmented Reality app takes readers beyond the printed page
The Institute is featured in the Fall 2012/Winter 2013 issue of USC Dornsife Magazine ("The Memory Issue"), which includes content accessible through smartphones using the Dornsife Augment Reality (AR) app. Readers can use their smartphones to scan pages for additional content, including a short clip from the testimony of Freddy Mutanguha, a survivor of the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide.
Freddy's entire testimony is viewable on the Institute's website. Watch
Polish teachers train to use Holocaust survivor interviews in the classroom: With workshop at Central European University, Institute completes inaugural year of new education initiative in Europe
Teachers across Poland traveled to Hungary last week to attend a workshop organized by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education (the Institute). The workshop, part of the Institute’s Teaching with Testimony for the 21st Century program, took place at Central European University in Budapest from November 11 to November 16. During the workshop, the teachers learned how to use interviews with Holocaust survivors and witnesses for education.
IWitness Pilot Project in Italy
From November 18-20, 2012, the USC Shoah Foundation and the Italian Ministry of Education organized an educational pilot program in Abano Terme, Italy. Teachers and students from high schools across the country attended the workshop to explore usability and feasibility of IWitness, the Foundation's internet resource for teachers and students, in the Italian education context. The workshop objectives were twofold: teachers focused on developing their ability to run the classroom pilots, whereas students tested their skills on working with the platform. During the sess
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