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Sharing Stories Inspiring Change 1. Adjust the volume of your computer using the speaker button (you should see a speaker icon in the top, black menu of your meeting room). Use headphones if possible. 2. Using the phone icon, enable your microphone using the drop-down menu (strongly recommended) or use the call-in information to join by phone. 3. Practice muting your microphone (the icon will be green with a line through it). If you are calling in, mute using your phone controls. Once the program begins, please stay mute when you are not speaking. 4. If you’d like to enable your webcam so we will be able to see you (the webcam icon will turn green). 5. Practice raising and lowering your hand. This will allow you to ask questions without interrupting the flow of the program. 6. Locate the chat box in the bottom right and introduce yourself to the group. Welcome, and thanks for coming! Get Set Up

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Page 1: Unlocking the Power of Oral History

Sharing Stories

Inspiring Change

1. Adjust the volume of your computer using the speaker button (you should

see a speaker icon in the top, black menu of your meeting room). Use

headphones if possible.

2. Using the phone icon, enable your microphone using the drop-down menu

(strongly recommended) or use the call-in information to join by phone.

3. Practice muting your microphone (the icon will be green with a line through

it). If you are calling in, mute using your phone controls. Once the program

begins, please stay mute when you are not speaking.

4. If you’d like to enable your webcam so we will be able to see you (the

webcam icon will turn green).

5. Practice raising and lowering your hand. This will allow you to ask questions

without interrupting the flow of the program.

6. Locate the chat box in the bottom right and introduce yourself to the group.

Welcome, and thanks for coming!

Get Set Up

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Yes! This program will

be recorded.

Recordings will be made

available at a later date, or upon

request.

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Who is this person?

What did this person do?

Why did they do it?

Who am I?

What do I do / What do I want to do?

Why do I do it?

You Cannot Be What You Cannot See

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Two Short Polls

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Katrina’s Jewish Voices,

Joel Brown, Owner of Kosher Cajun

restaurant in New Orleans

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Oral History Builds & Diversifies the Historical

Record

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What does oral history

offer to us (educators)

and to our students?

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Fosters Four Areas of Student Learning

Emergent Learning:Pursuit of Personal Interest

Skill Building

Emotional Health & Growth

Relationships/Role Models

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Sharing Family Stories Makes Kids

Resilient

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Stories Help People Construct Identity

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Components of an Oral History Project

Collecting

(Interviews)

Sharing

(Presentation/Preservation)

Connecting

(Project/Research)

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Resources for Collecting Stories

• In Our Own Voices• Resource for conducting life history interviews with Jewish women

• http://jwa.org/stories/how-to/guide

• Family History Tool Kit• Guide adapted for tweens/teens (for girls but anyone can use it)

• http://mybatmitzvahstory.org

• Museum of Family History• Lesson plan for creating a museum of stories and artifacts

• http://mybatmitzvahstory.org/content/museum-family-history

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Two people perform two roles

• Narrator—the person

telling the story

• Interviewer—the person

asking the questions

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Generating Good Questions

If you were interested in learning

more about how and why

someone became a Jewish

educator, what would you ask?

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Types of Questions

1. Closed-ended questions• For gathering facts

• Have clear answers

• “Who” “what,” “when,” “where,” “how many”

2. Open-ended questions• Elicit stories, feelings, and memories

• “Tell me about…” “Describe…” “How…”

3. Both are essential

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One-Two Punch Method

• Switch off between open

and closed questions

• Draft extra questions

• Follow the narrator’s lead

and the interviewer’s

interest/curiosity

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Role Playing: What Not To Do

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What Not To Do

• Ask too many questions at once

• Interrupt the narrator

• Interrupt with “uh huh,” or “mmmm.” Instead use non-

verbal communication to show you are listening.

• Offer your own experiences or stories. This is not a

conversation.

• Express assumptions e.g. “Wow, you must have been so

angry.”

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Other Resources For Collecting and Sharing

Stories

• StoryCorps (http://storycorps.org/)• DIY Guide for National Day of Listening (Day after Thanksgiving)

• http://nationaldayoflistening.org/downloads/DIY-Instruction-Guide.pdf

• Contemporary Jewish Museum (http://www.thecjm.org/)• “Stories of Survival”: Creating and Exploring Oral Histories in the Classroom

• http://www.thecjm.org/storage/documents/education/2013/Oral_History_Curriculum_Resource-FINAL.pdf

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Resources For Viewing/Watching Stories

• JWA’S YouTube Channel• Women’s stories: activists, community leaders, etc.

• http://www.youtube.com/user/jewishwomensarchive?feature=watch

• StoryCorps• Stories collected and curated under a variety of topics

• http://storycorps.org/listen/

• iWitness @ The Shoah Foundation• Searchable video testimony from Holocaust survivors

• http://sfi.usc.edu/teach_and_learn/iwitness

• This I Believe• Personal essays read aloud

• http://thisibelieve.org/essays/listen/classic/

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What else do you

need to know?

What ideas do you

have?

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“It was truly an honor to get the

chance to interview such an incredible

woman. Molly has so much wisdom,

knowledge, and wonderful

stories. Molly taught me to live in the

present, because the present is a

gift. In doing this project, what was

meaningful to me as a person, was

that I got to listen to someone’s

story. It inspired me and moved me to

want to pursue what I want to do in my

life.”

From the Field: Susan Cohn, San Diego

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From the Field: Barbara Rosenblit, Atlanta

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TWERSKY WINNER TELLS ALL

Thursday, December 11 @ 1pm & 8pm

With Twersky Award Winner Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen