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Through a major grant from the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge, Hillel Day School of Boca Raton is looking for content contributors to take part in the production of a digital library of 40 Gemarah and Chumash iPad itextbooks over the next two years. We are paying $400 per sugyah for content contributions. If you are interested in contributing content for a Gemarah sugyah please visit the project website at www.HDSTiP.org. or you can email me at…

Since the beginning of the school year we have covered 2 major sugyot (HaBah BeMachteret and Tadir u"SheAynoh Tadir) and have also used iPad iBooks as a format for covering the dinim of the Yamim Noraiim, Sukkot and Chanukah.

After 4 months I am happy to report that the overall experience of both teacher and students in using the iToshba iPad ibook have been truly revolutionary. This is not to say that there have not been some drawbacks that need tweaking but, all in all the students…

Greetings all.

I am the Torah Sh'Baal Peh departemtn chair at Hillel Day School of Boca Raton. This year we have developed an iTextbook to teach gemorah using iPads in the classroom. I have started a blog to detail this experience which can be found at http://itoshba.wordpress.com. 



I would greatly appreciate your comments and advice as to how to improve this exciting new project. I am…