Teaching with Testimony for Genocide Awareness Month
Educators share how they teach with eyewitness testimony for April's Genocide Awareness Month.
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ITeach Seminar: Detroit
June 27, 2017
The one-day training will introduce Detroit area educators to IWitness and strategies for using testimony in the classroom, including how to integrate testimony across the curriculum and how to create testimony-curriculum plans for their individual classrooms.
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Start: June 27, 2017
Where:
, Oakland County, MI
Venue:
, MI, United States
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Social Studies Chat for Genocide Awareness Month
April 03, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - April 03, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
USC Shoah Foundation's free educational website IWitness will host a Social Studies Twitter Chat #SSChat on Monday, April 3, 2017 at 4pm PT/7pm ET. Join @USCIWitness for a discussion on teaching about genocide with survivor and eyewitness testimony for Genocide Awareness Month.
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Start: April 03, 2017 / 4:00 PM
End: April 03, 2017 / 5:00 PM
Three Tips to Integrate the IWitness Video Challenge into your Classroom
During a recent Twitter chat, #IWitnessChat hosted by Discovery Education, teachers shared how they are integrating the IWitness Video Challenge into their classrooms. Explore their insights and tips to help encourage your students to participate in the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge.
Echoes and Reflections and IWitness 2017 Webinar Schedule
Educators have a new slate of webinars to choose from in 2017 to enhance their knowledge and skills for using Echoes and Reflections and IWitness in the classroom.
IWitness Video Challenge: Winning the 2016 challenge
My friends Allison (Ally) Vandal, Maya Montell and I worked with our fabulous teacher, Emily Bengels, to create a group called Poet’s Undercover Guild (PUG). With this “guild”, we drew inspiration from testimony found in USC Shoah Foundation’s educational platform, IWitness to create our winning video “A Community of Poetry.”
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Digital Learning Day - Facebook Live
February 23, 2017 @ 11:30 am - February 23, 2017 @ 12:00 pm
To commemorate Digital Learning Day USC Shoah Foundation will broadcast live on Facebook from Vista Murrieta High School of English Language Arts teacher Lesly Culp's classroom as her students complete an IWitness activity.
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Start: February 23, 2017 / 11:30 AM
End: February 23, 2017 / 12:00 PM
USC Shoah Foundation Presents IWitness at Czech Oral History Association Conference
The annual conference brings together experts in the field to discuss new research and advances in oral history and its use in a variety of contexts.
Teachers Learn About IWitness in Detroit and Southern California
Educators in the Detroit area and Glendale, Calif., attended professional development workshops on IWitness in the first months of 2017 in order to learn more about how to incorporate testimony into their teaching.
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#IWitnessChat - Using testimony to teach Contemporary Antisemitism
March 22, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - March 22, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
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Start: March 22, 2017 / 4:00 PM
End: March 22, 2017 / 5:00 PM