Holocaust

Celebrating and remembering the Holocaust is part of our activities  at school .We have been doing it ever since we started celebrating 27th January. Teams of teachers and school are involved in projects, readings and celebrations.

The #Holocaust began with words, but with education and knowledge we can counter hate speech and help prevent genocide.

27 January is International #HolocaustRemembrance Day

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— UNESCO (@UNESCO) 27 gennaio 2019

I have taken my students to visit  some concentration camps : in Germany and also in Poland. We have a lesson  based on the places and the documents which we saw. I saw my students crying and I am aware that what they experiences there will always be part of them.

I have also met a man who was a child  at the time of the Holocaust and he lived in France. He talked to us and  we could learn more about the conditions of the people who lived in the regions occupied by  the Nazis.
Hopefully,people cared and he was saved.   His mother  and his family died as they were taken to  concentration camps but a good  soul  looked after him and the other  children. They  had lessons and tried to forget that their families  were not with them anymore.

These are school  projects which  I took part in, but every year we do work on texts, readings and  videos about the ones who survived and also to remember the ones who died because of the atrocies which took place in the concentration camps.

This year I worked on a text, Memento by S.Spender, it is  a poem that reminds  us that we should never forget. The power of images can help us see  what  the soldiers saw when they arrived in Auschwitz.

We have also watched the first part of the film  Shindler's list  and we have seen some videos where some people  remember what happened to them.

Here I have collected some interesting documents which I might use with my students. They tell us about the importance of listening, meeting  the last survivors and also  teaching about the importance of respect. We live in a society where  the young and also the old  forget or they do not seem to be interested in the past.

 Without the past and the lessons from the past human beings  risk making  the same mistakes.
This is the reason why everybody should remember what happened in Europe  in the dark age of Nazism.

#Blogging 28 Some interesting blogs which you shoud check online

It is time to rethink about what  I am used  to doing while I am online. I took a course about blogging but I had never thought about  the way we can present our ideas  in a blog before.
This challenge is helping me to focus on the importance of blogging in education and also as a self-reflection. I am checking online some nice blogs and I am getting some ideas about how I can improve mine.

 I am just reshaping the layout of my blog and I need to learn more about new challenges.

Kathleen Morris has provided us with some tips for working better in

this month. Here is the document that she shared with us : it is helping me to focus on what I should do.

I am a fan of  Elt and technology so I have chosen to add information about other blogs I have come across by adding them to mine.

I really like  Shelly  Terrell and her ideas so  I like to check this blog where she posts her  ideas together with other  English Language Teachers:

 https://blog.esllibrary.com/

I have started following  other blogs too:

https://eltgeek.wordpress.com/

This blog by Olga Sergeeva is really cool as it is written by a teacher whose mother tongue is not English but she has  worked in the EVO Sessions where I am also  working  this year.  I followed her two sessions about  Teaching  Listening and  I was really engaged.


https://eltgeek.wordpress.com/2018/08/12/evo-related-posts-contents/


An interesting blog is the one by Susan  Oxnevad: the writer is an expert in new technologies and I have seen her great work online while  using   Thinglink

http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com/


She has created some  pages for important tools like  using  Google apps

http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com/p/google-docs.html#.XC_1zlxKg2w


Finally an interesting educator is sharing his ideas in his blog and website : Steve Wick

 https://rechargelearning.blogspot.com/


He has shared his best sources in his  website

https://sites.google.com/view/wickedtech/home?authuser=0



In Italy I follow  a lot of interesting educators too:

Gianfranco  Marini    https://gianfrancomarini.blogspot.com/

He is used to creating short videos to show how to use new webtools.

This one is a special blog which  has been created by some Italian teachers . They share ideas and information about new tools  and I have learnt a lot online thanks to them :

https://insegnantiduepuntozero.wordpress.com/



My blogs are  some  learning diaries  where I reflect on what is happening in my experience as an educator. I have written in many blogs and you can  find them in the main page about me.

Why blogging?  Because you can learn more about  who you are and the  world of education in which we are involved.

Today we have a lot of blogs with videos and  that's the main reason why I try to follow so many educators.

I can also learn while doing some listening in English!   👍👍

A new Challenge #blogging28

I got an email in December, it was from Edublogger and Kathleen Morris who is an educator involved in promoting blogging among educators and also students.
I have been using Edublogger for some blogs  where I  am sharing materials and also some Learning diaries for my Moocs.

Last year I did the course online which she ran  Better Blogging with Students  - it was a great course!
http://betterblogging.edublogs.org/2018/01/11/start-here-introduction-to-course/?fbclid=IwAR2bOKc56-zym28xeZgoydt7FVY4vsnOivYK2E-a9_h-_UyRqmT2PB2MAu8

I did the course online  and I really appreciated it- for two months I was engaged onine. I shared some posts and also the blog I was working on with students.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE


I am here ready to work on this  challenge as I would like to learn more and share ideas with other educators.

I am ready to start and be a life-long-learner. I will add posts about my learning experience online and the courses which I am going to  do in the next months.

I will also post my comments on the other educators' blogs. I am just bookmarking them.

I am using this blog where I started blogging some years ago: it was my learning activity online as I was doing a Mooc about education. I never stopped writing it.

I will continue my journey online among other educators!

Thanks to  Kathleen Morris!