This is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January) 2010. There are many useful resources, both primary and secondary, to be found on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website. There are ideas for assemblies and a range of subject areas including PSHE/Citizenship, Maths and Science, RE, Music and Drama, ICT, English, Humanities and Design and Technology.

Have you heard? REFuel has a very useful audio glossary, where you can listen to the correct pronunciation of religious vocabulary and also hear an explanation of the meaning.

Do you know about TrueTube? This website provides engaging and authentic materials on subjects which are relevant and real to young people. In addition to watching videos, students are encouraged to develop their own and submit them to the site. This offers opportunities for students to:
• develop key skills – in ICT and communication
• increase awareness of spiritual, ethical, social, cultural, environmental and political issues.

As the site is moderated and there is a list of house rules to be observed, great care is taken to ensure that material with an offensive, obscene, racist or libellous will not be uploaded.

Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. Voki can speak using your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.

Using Web 2.0 in Religious Studies Mark Woolley from Australia posted this presentation on Slideshare.

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In Our Time, the BBC Radio 4 programme, hosted by Melvin Bragg, often broadcasts on religious or philsophical themes. The archive means that you can listen to programmes at an appropriate point in your GCSE or A Level syllabus which were broadcast earlier.

Photos

Wikimedia has a section of free to use (under a Creative Commons Licence) religious images.

EveryStockPhoto also has a large number of photos. I put “religious” into the search, but narrow it down with a specific word – you’ll be surprise what you can find! (I tried Zoroastrian and Bahá’í, though you need to put it in as “bahai“).

Make virtual visits to places of pilgrimage using Google Earth. You will need to download the program, then have a look at the additional photos and information which has been added at sites such as Makkah, Lourdes or Jerusalem.

You Tube now has an RE Teachers group with some interesting videos which could be used in the classroom. Here are a couple of examples.

• supporting primary and secondary RE

• creation of interactive materials for RE and Collective Worship

• Enhancing RE through ICT and higher order thinking skills
  

• RE and assessment

• RE – using interactive whiteboards to enhance lessons and engage learners

• skills training in using an interactive whiteboard Promethean or Smartboard

• Holocaust Education

• podcasting

• support for church schools pre and post Section 48 inspection (SIAS)

• blogging
  

• setting up blogs

• stop frame animation

• creative presentations with PhotoStory, MovieMaker and Web 2.0 applications
  

• support and training for Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) and LOtC Quality Badge

• website development

To ask for further details, please contact me.

Beauty in Detail.

Watch this video created with PhotoStory

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