| 2007Oct17
Rui |
Dear friends
Welcome to the auschwitz teachers network website. In the course of our workshop, several people discussed about publishing online a very straight forward website, with which a small network of teachers could be easily reached in order to share infos, data, photos, projects and so on. We asked Stefania about this idea and she immediately supported it. Well, here it is, then. For the time being, this website will be included in my personal website www.edudepo.org. Any other future suggestions will, of course, be considered. The name of the website was taken from a suggestion by Fabienne Regard, who also encouraged us to go ahead with this project: Auschwitz Teachers Network The website will be in the official language of the workshop. There will be a tool to send emails to all participants in the workshop with one single click. This section of the website will include every information we find helpful to the group. So please feel free to send all the information you find useful to everyone such as comments on the workshop, interesting news, local and European events, seminars, useful links, books, articles, teaching strategies, school exhibitions, essays, learning materials, and so on. I'm planning to start a forum also or something a little more powerful, like a dokeos e-learning platform, which will require everyone to register in order to take part in it. I'll think about it later if this whole thing goes as smoothly as expected. For the time being, I'll just wait for your first impressions and publish here every comment you find handy to improve this site. It would be great if you could send me some feedback on this whole thing. Thank you for your cheerful friendship and your encouraging professionalism. Your true Portuguese friend Rui
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| 2007Oct18
Fabienne |
I hope you had a
nice trip home and that the everyday life at school this week was not too
difficult after a week of so great exchanges and emotions !
I will send you information about a seminar on Teaching Holocaust: pedagogical tools in order to create a link betweenthe past and the present, how to teach holocaust in the framework of peace, humanistic and democratic education. It will take place in Israel next February, in the Kibboutz of the Ghettos Fighters home. It was founded in 1948 by former resistants of the Ghetto Fighter of Warsaw and around. These young idealistic women and men decided to devote their life to teach on Holocaust, in their own way, they were teachers, factory workers, peasants in a part of the day, and historians of their own history on the left time. They have wonderful archives but also a research center on holocaust and peace education. The seminar is in French so if you have colleagues who are fluent in French, they can get in touch with me, and I will give them all the information. It is also a very intensiv workshop on one week, in a wonderful place from where we can see the sea side, with orange trees in the research center... I send you a draft of the programme. We receive stipendium for the workshop, the visits and accomodation, but the participant has to pay his plane ticket to Israel. If you need more information, please don't hesitate to ask me. Best regards to all of you. I miss you all, and it was a priviledge to meet each of you. |
| 2007Oct18
Fabienne |
Dear all,
I just finished to read a book that I bought in Auschwitz last week, the title in French is: J ai survecu a Auschwitz The writer is Krystyna Zywulska The book has been written in 1946, in Polish. It's a very interesting novel which is based on testimonies, it gives important information on the everyday life in Auschwitz and in Birkenau, in the different parts of the camp, through different points of view... it gives a lot on the atmosphere of the camps. It s not black and white, and ask a lot of questions on ethics and humanity. Do you know this book ? I think it can be read by teenagers from 14 years old... Does someone use it in the classroom ? This book is free of copyright for education purpose, so if you re interested, we could scann it on the Website. It has been published in cooperation with the State museum of Auchwitz Birkenau. It seems that it exists in other languages, maybe in English too. There is one historical mistake that I found in this book, it is about Soap made from human bodies in Auschwitz. Concerning this topic, I send you a link in English or an other document in French Le savon humain : rumeur, réalité et histoire. |
| 2007Oct18
Rui |
Dear friends
In order to enhance the possibilities of communication among us, I thought it might be a good idea if we could have a platform where everyone could freely post messages, publish documents and , from time to time, schedule an online chat together. There are many ways of doing this. I think I might have come up with one that works just fine: the moodle platform. As you all know the moodle platform is an e-learning tool that has been around for several years with huge success. I thought we could use it to achieve our main goals: exchange views and ideas. So I’ve put together a moodle page that everyone can reach and work, with remarkable simplicity. But in order to do that, you’ll have to
register in a specific moodle platform. My school hosts a moodle platform
for some years now and will gladly host our moodle webpage. That’s why
I’m sending you a pdf
guide for you to
To make it easier all you have to do is to click here, wait for a confirmation email, read the pdf guides I’m sending you and start publishing online. I'm also sending step by step guides on how to publish in the forum and how to publish a resource in the ATN glossary It would be great if everyone registered,
wouldn’t it?
Big hugs and kisses from
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| 2007Oct20
Rui |
Dear friends
I’m happy to inform that many of us have already started posting documents and remarks on our ATNetwork moodle platform. We’re hoping to schedule an online chat session sometime soon. Some colleagues wrote me asking about what is this moodle thing. I figured that the best way of knowing it is to use it. So I decided to register all the participants. So I’m just informing that if you decide NOT to be a part of it you don’t really have to do anything. But in case you wish to work and keep in touch with the rest of us - AND YOU HAVEN’T REGISTERED YOURSELF YET – all you have to do is the following: Click
here
Username: (write your first name)
If you wish to change your profile, (adding
a photo is much appreciated), just click over your name and edit profile.
Then look for “Partnerships”, click on ”Auschwitz Teachers Network” and that’s about it. Hugs'n'kisses
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| useful links | Auschwitz
Memorial and Museum
Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial The Holocaust History Project Holocaust survivors The holocaust chronicles Nizkor Project The jewish library (holocaust) European Union eurydice database European Commission - education and training Council of Europe - teacher training Ghetto Fighters Museum |
| docs | workshop
programme
compulsory documents for travel expenses reimbursements SEMINAIRE
POUR ENSEIGNANTS ET EDUCATEURS FRANCOPHONES 24 février au 2 mars
2008
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| CoE contact | Hélène
SCHMIDT
Assistant / Assistante
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| missing links | Some emails were sent back to me. Please
help us get their right contacts.
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