I have just started using a new tool: Adobe Spark Video.
It is user-friendly and it can be used by educators to introduce topics by using
videos and students can use it for making their presentations. You just need an account.
You need to have the right images and texts you want to use, in just a few minutes you can create your work.
Once you have published it you can also download the video.
Here is my first video created online.
Link online : https://spark.adobe.com/video/JTord64bgBxso
giovedì 28 febbraio 2019
domenica 27 gennaio 2019
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.
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.
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.The #Holocaust began with words, but with education and knowledge we can counter hate speech and help prevent genocide.— UNESCO (@UNESCO) 27 gennaio 2019
27 January is International #HolocaustRemembrance Day
ℹ️ https://t.co/41dxzOZfJT pic.twitter.com/KUERXdcvRX
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.
venerdì 25 gennaio 2019
Let's remember
London
Today at City Hall, we remembered the millions of lives lost and affected by the Holocaust, along with the victims and survivors of all genocides around the world. As we reflect on the past, we must pledge to work together and live up to the promise: never again. pic.twitter.com/OzFl0qmGc7— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) 21 gennaio 2019
Italy
Today at school and also in other places we are working on remembering what happened in Auschwitz. Many have died while others cannot live any longer. They are too old to remind us that we cannot forget.
I watched GIULIANA SEGRE who is now sitting in the Italian Parliament and was sent to concentration camps , she had left from Milan in Italy. She started to talk about Auschwitz when she was 60 and she is continuing doing it now.
She said that we do need to remember what happened in the many places where many people were killed.
Thank you to this great woman who is talking to us, among men who are denying what she had experienced and are working to build barriers while we should open our mind to the world.
martedì 22 gennaio 2019
#blogging 28 Using QR codes for sharing materials
I am doing a course about QR Codes and it is part of an EVO SESSION for this year- EVO19
I am learning how to create them: you just need an extension in Chrome - it is called Quick QR Code Generator.
You right-click on the webpage you want to share and then you generate the code, you download the code and embed it in your blog/website.
Here is the QR Code for my second blog where I write posts about the use of technlogy or my experiences online as an educator:
Here you can see the QR Code for a post which I have just written for the students I am teaching for CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH EXAMS: it is about writing an essay
Why using QR Codes? It is simple and you can create materials online, share weblinks and get your learners engaged. Students can work with their smartphones and you can share a lot of documents and materials.
I am going to continue learning about QR Codes and will post about it in the next days.
I am learning how to create them: you just need an extension in Chrome - it is called Quick QR Code Generator.
You right-click on the webpage you want to share and then you generate the code, you download the code and embed it in your blog/website.
Here is the QR Code for my second blog where I write posts about the use of technlogy or my experiences online as an educator:
Here you can see the QR Code for a post which I have just written for the students I am teaching for CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH EXAMS: it is about writing an essay
Why using QR Codes? It is simple and you can create materials online, share weblinks and get your learners engaged. Students can work with their smartphones and you can share a lot of documents and materials.
I am going to continue learning about QR Codes and will post about it in the next days.
lunedì 21 gennaio 2019
#blogging 28 Safety online
Safe Internet Day is on 5th February this year:
This #SID2019, "we are millions, united with one mission: to make the #internet a place where everyone is empowered to use #technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively."
Get ready for #SaferInternetDay, coming on 5 February!— Safer Internet Day (@safeinternetday) 17 gennaio 2019
Together for a better internet! pic.twitter.com/kaMhZkQFuX
In many schools educators will work on this issue. Last year I could learn more about the resources which we can find and use with our learners.
Educators are used to technology and to what might happen online but it doesn't mean that students do know much about the risks of the web. While we use our smarphone or our tablet we risk getting trapped and sometimes we give information about us, which we shouldn't share. Oversharing can be dangerous and we need to provide tools to help and equip learners to defend themselves.
I created this simple website where I collected resources and data for students and families , in Italian and also in English to help my students and people who are not familiar with the new technologies.
It was a task for a course online: I learnt a lot while surfing the web.
This is the link to my website :
https://sites.google.com/view/digital-safetycitizenship-and-/home?authuser=0
I really like to find resources online and I do like this website: Common Sense Education. Usually they run special webinars and provide helpful resources for students and families too.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/
Their video library can help educators to present issues in class :
https://www.commonsense.org/education/video/digital-citizenship
I have used one video they have presented in one of my classes: it was useful to brainstorm the students' ideas about the way they post online. Some do not care, they do not know anything about
their finger print.
If you search online you will find more documents and ideas to start introducing digital safety in your classes: one issue which is becoming a great problem in our schools and also online is Cyberbullying.
The video is a new one and it can be used to get the students into the habit of thinking about their mates and how they can make them feel unhappy when they do not respect their privacy .
I will search the web and I will find some more videos to introduce the topic of safety online among the classes I am teaching in February. I suggest educators should do this in their classes and also when doing English. Our students will benefit from it.
sabato 19 gennaio 2019
#blogging 28 Teaching the Holocaust - reading the Diary by Anne Frank
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Since I started using Twitter I have come across many resources for educators.
They have been sharing many documents and materials online :now I have many accounts online where I can find lessons and tips. I have collected many links and pdfs for my lessons as I feel that teaching implies learning by using authentic materials and also documents related to the past.
Usually students are more engaged and like to learn about events that are challenging and they love discussing about them.
In one of my posts of this year I wrote about a book which I had read and which had been written by a holocaust survivor.
I have read many books about the life of people who were killed in the dark age of Nazism.
Like Deborah Batiste I have loved reading Anne Frank's Diary. In an interesting post she shared why some people had an impact on her life :
https://sharemylesson.com/blog/choices-we-make-what-i-learned-anne-frank-and-my-english-teacher
I have met Anne Frank by reading her pages and also my teacher taught me about her.
I have never visited her house in Amsterdam but today many young students go to Amsterdam and visit the Museum - https://www.annefrank.org/en/
Any time I teach the Holocaust I cannot but photocopy some pages taken from the Diary and comment in class about what is being read: the book can be read online
thanks to the Internet Archive:
For learners with a pre-intermediate level of English I choose some adapted texts with text and audio:
https://english-e-reader.net/book/the-diary-of-a-young-girl-anne-frank
I also ask my students to see films in Italian and in English to learn more about the teenager who wrote about her wish to live in a better world and dreamed of a better world.
Sometimes books we have read can change our life but I also feel it is up to educators to teach about the Holocaust and help the young to reflect. Anne Frank is still living among us and she is helping us teach about the value of respect. Something we do need to focus on in a society which seems to have forgotten what happened to many people who died in the concentration camps.
Films
Anne Frank ( the whole story)
giovedì 17 gennaio 2019
#blogging 28 Teaching in difficult situations
Tonight I was online and doing a webinar run by National Geographic. It was about the use of videos in teaching languages.
The presenter, John Hughes, made us think about how using images and videos in ELT can enhance the students' critical thinking skills.
He presented this video about a teacher working with 250 students in Africa
It was surprising how the teacher coped with so many students and how they were working with her: poor children who were learning together.
I am going to share the document with other educators and ask my students to work on the video by using English.
I really feel that some educators are modern heroes as they are struggling as teachers but they are also winners.
The presenter, John Hughes, made us think about how using images and videos in ELT can enhance the students' critical thinking skills.
He presented this video about a teacher working with 250 students in Africa
It was surprising how the teacher coped with so many students and how they were working with her: poor children who were learning together.
I am going to share the document with other educators and ask my students to work on the video by using English.
I really feel that some educators are modern heroes as they are struggling as teachers but they are also winners.
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