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Podcast Launch Features New Year’s Resolutions

by Mike Simpson | Jan 9, 2018 | Ancestry Project, Audio Recording, Culture, Digital Storytelling, Listening, Media, Podcast, Resources, Stories, Writers

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Ancestry Project podcast. The first episode is “New Year’s Resolutions” and features student and teacher PDF and audio streams and downloads (free MP3 download for registered users). The episode discusses...

“I Have a Message for You” – Miracle Holocaust Story in New York Times Op-Docs (Video)

by Mike Simpson | Oct 17, 2017 | Digital Storytelling, Heritage, History, Holocaust, Interview, Listening, Media, Resources, Stories, Uncategorized, Video

“To escape Auschwitz, she left her father to die. Decades later she got a message from him” This incredibly moving documentary is by Matan Rochlitz, a filmmaker and a musician based in Rome, Italy. The subject, Kara, is the 92-year-old neighbour of his...

Remembrance Day and Famous Canadians Resource: John McCrae (In Flanders Fields)

by Mike Simpson | Sep 17, 2017 | Canada, Canadians, Culture, Heritage, History, Listening, Media, Readings, Resources, Stories, Uncategorized, Video, Writers

Reading and Listening Resources: Preview Available Now There may be no finer Canadian to profile for the “Famous Canadians” units than John McCrae, the soldier poet who penned the infamous “In Flanders Fields,” a poem of international renown....