LINKS TO LIVING HISTORY PROJECT

With a Grant from Telematics Course Development Fund this project is progressing well. This will allow students from more remote schools who are not able to access an Exhibition, the opportunity to interact via the web with a survivor. Special material is being prepared for teachers to allow them to plan lessons around this experience which will emphasise the particular message of the Courage to Care Program.

In 2006 Orbost Secondary College approached Courage to Care (Vic.) asking if we would be able to offer their Year 8 students exposure to the Courage to Care Program via the internet. The students were studying the book “Hannah’s Suitcase” at the time.
Subsequently we provided the school with a copy of the DVD shown at the Exhibition, written material giving the stories that are included on the panels and “humanoids” about the rescuers and those that were rescued.
Two sessions of 45 minutes duration were arranged with a Holocaust survivor telling their story to the students in real time via the internet. The students were given the opportunity to ask questions of the survivor during and after their talk.
Both teachers and students felt this to be an extremely valuable experience and feedback was very positive including the painting by Johannah Donald featured on our Home page.
The school requested that we arrange this for their Year 8 students again in 2007 and on this occasion three groups of students heard stories from Holocaust survivors.
This experience has formed the basis of our successful application for a Telematics Grant and the current development of the Links to Living History Project.

We hope to soon be able to offer teachers the opportunity to enrol their classes in this program which will allow them, with the material we provide, to build appropriate lessons around the theme of “Courage to Care”, with the testimony of a Holocaust survivor being an integral part of that experience.

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