Speak Up, Speak Out from Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

ARCHIVE for HMD2011: Untold Stories

The case studies and related education resources for HMD2011, Untold Stories, have been archived. The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is currently focusing on the theme for this year, Speak Up, Speak Out.

HMD 2011 ICT Task (Secondary 14-19)

This task uses the HMD 2011 theme paper and your choice of case studies

Display the image of the empty open book found at the end of this case study. Explain that you are going to explore Untold Stories and use everyone’s ICT skills to share an important message with as many people as possible.

Share one of the case studies and ask the group to decide which key points in the story are the most important ones to share with others. Note these on the board.

Give everyone access to the HMD 2011 theme paper. Decide together what students think the key message for HMD 2011 is and how they could use ICT to share the Untold Stories from the case studies in order to help it reach as many people as possible. Explore together the quickest and most efficient ways to share information in the electronic age.

Challenge students to prepare a presentation and remind the group that people respond to information in a variety of ways. To get a message across you may need to use more than one approach. Discuss suitable tools/software packages available and consider which will be the most useful when trying to tell the story. Decide together the target group/s for your message e.g. if you choose a student target group then the message could be shared in an assembly. If you select a community group then you will need to discuss the most efficient way to send your message to create an impact.

You can download the complete lesson plan below. Please don’t forget to order our free Campaign Pack which will assist you in your activities for HMD 2011. The pack contains free posters, a film, advice and hand out material.