Holocaust Survivor/Witness Video Testimony and 21st Century Learning

Your Name and Title:

Gayle Kolodny Cole, Online Educational Specialist

School or Organization Name:

USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Co-Presenter Name(s):

Sherry Bard, Project Director, Educational Programs, USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Area of the World from Which You Will Present:

Los Angeles, CA

Language in Which You Will Present:

English

Target Audience(s):

Educators of students ages 13-18

Short Session Description (one line):

Empower learners to overcome prejudice through IWitness’ visual history testimonies.

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

This presentation will highlight the ways learners can use IWitness, a new online, interactive, free educational application from the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation Institute. Designed for secondary school educators and students, IWitness provides a searchable collection of more than 1,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, along with educational tools and supporting resources that provide context to deepen students’ understanding of the Holocaust. During a demonstration and discussion, participants will learn how IWitness reflects the Institute’s mission to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry -- and the suffering they cause -- through the educational use of the Institutes’s visual history testimonies.

IWitness enables students (ages 13-18) to engage on an individual level with the testimonies and to discover connections to their own lives while building the literacies needed in the 21st century, including information, media, and digital literacies. IWitness engages students in real world problem solving by motivating them to engage in social action.

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:
http://dornsife.usc.edu/vhi/education/iwitness/
iwitness.usc.edu

Thank you so much for your session proposal for the 2011 Global Education Conference! We're pleased to let you know that your submission has been accepted! Your proposal is now in the "accepted proposals" list on the website. Here are some important tasks for you.
1. Because we have sessions being presented from all different time zones, as a speaker you actually schedule your own session time at http://globaledcon11.youcanbook.me. This allows you to see the available slots and to pick something that works within your time zone, work schedule, or other constraints. We're quite proud of how this works, as it is one of the benefits of a virtual conference, but if you should fun into any difficulties finding a time that works for We encourage you to do this quickly, as proposals are being reviewed in the order in which they were submitted, so your priority for selecting a session time depends on you scheduling right away. When you do select you time, be sure that the scheduling system has the correct time zone for you!
To schedule your session, you should open http://www.globaleducationconference.com to your presentation proposal (you can do a search on your name to find it, or click on "My Page" in the top menu and then click on the "discussion" link on the left side to find it). Open the session booking link from above in another tab. You will find it easiest to copy the information from one to the other rather than re-type it. Once completed, you will receive an email confirmation of your booking.
2. As a speaker, you need to make sure you are a member of the conference "speakers group" on the network website. Most of our announcements to speakers will be sent to the members of this group, so as not to email all site members. Join the group (or check to make sure you're already a member) at http://globaleducation.ning.com/group/2011-global-education-confere.... 3. Speakers are responsible for knowing how to use Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). We will have a cadre of volunteers on hand during the conference to help with any issues, but you need to go through the moderator training for Collaborate if you are not a seasoned user. There are a variety of training resources at the Collaborate website, and we are also holding six live one-hour training sessions (don't worry, attending any one will be be enough--we just wanted you to have several time choices for attending. All the relevant information is at http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/training. Please look at this page soon.
Again, we are so delighted to have you participating in the 2011 Global Education Conference. Thank you!
Best,

Anne Mirtschin Organising Committee, The 2011 Global Education Conference

mirtschin@gmail.com

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Anne Mirtschin October 30, 2011 at 11:38pm

Thank you so much for your session proposal for the 2011 Global Education Conference! We're pleased to let you know that your submission has been accepted! Your proposal is now in the "accepted proposals" list on the website. Here are some important tasks for you.
1. Because we have sessions being presented from all different time zones, as a speaker you actually schedule your own session time at http://globaledcon11.youcanbook.me. This allows you to see the available slots and to pick something that works within your time zone, work schedule, or other constraints. We're quite proud of how this works, as it is one of the benefits of a virtual conference, but if you should fun into any difficulties finding a time that works for We encourage you to do this quickly, as proposals are being reviewed in the order in which they were submitted, so your priority for selecting a session time depends on you scheduling right away. When you do select you time, be sure that the scheduling system has the correct time zone for you!
To schedule your session, you should open http://www.globaleducationconference.com to your presentation proposal (you can do a search on your name to find it, or click on "My Page" in the top menu and then click on the "discussion" link on the left side to find it). Open the session booking link from above in another tab. You will find it easiest to copy the information from one to the other rather than re-type it. Once completed, you will receive an email confirmation of your booking.
2. As a speaker, you need to make sure you are a member of the conference "speakers group" on the network website. Most of our announcements to speakers will be sent to the members of this group, so as not to email all site members. Join the group (or check to make sure you're already a member) at http://globaleducation.ning.com/group/2011-global-education-confere.... 3. Speakers are responsible for knowing how to use Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). We will have a cadre of volunteers on hand during the conference to help with any issues, but you need to go through the moderator training for Collaborate if you are not a seasoned user. There are a variety of training resources at the Collaborate website, and we are also holding six live one-hour training sessions (don't worry, attending any one will be be enough--we just wanted you to have several time choices for attending. All the relevant information is at http://globaleducation.ning.com/page/training. Please look at this page soon.
Again, we are so delighted to have you participating in the 2011 Global Education Conference. Thank you!
Best,

Anne Mirtschin Organising Committee, The 2011 Global Education Conference

mirtschin@gmail.com

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