Everybody knows that there are hundreds of words for snow in the Eskimo language for snow (which may not be entirely true) and that there are many different words to describe the nuanced differences of pasta dishes in Italian (and as the joke goes, hundreds of nuanced words for an idiot in Yiddish), but in Hebrew one of the concepts which has many words attached to it, in order to grasp the various…

I am often asked:

What is the difference between Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and how should I use them properly?

Over time, I have developed (what I think to be) a pretty decent answer and figured rather than having to repeat it and retype it every time I am asked, I would just put it here. So, here goes...

The way I see it, online social settings…

Arr, me hearties, Bearded Dog here again, back on the open seas,

Wiki?

What me wiki?

The Bearded Dog is a little unsure here me hearties.

Not that the Bearded Dog would ever admit to being unsure – but the Dog thinks that there are so many “easy to use” sharing sites, that Wikis might…

Are You Ready to Flip?

This post is cross posted HERE.

This is cross-posted on my TechRav blog and my TanachRav blog.

I am planning to try the Flipped Classroom model this year in my Nach class. We are learning about Shivat Zion through Sefer Ezra/ Nechemiah, Chagai, Zechariah, and (maybe) Malachi.

Here are my first 5 videos on Ezra…

Today I had the pleasure of attending an event in the Scholastic Administr@tor “Live Tech Series.”  The event focused on iPad implementation in schools and the Common Core set of academic standards. The…

Podcasting has revolutionized the way we consume entertainment. It used to be that we were slaves to the TV Guide. Whatever time your show was on was exactly when you had to be situated in front of your television. But with Podcasting you don’t ever have to wait for your favorite show nor do you have to search for it. With entertainment customized to suit my personal interests pouring into my computer or portable device I have become quite snobby and choosy. Now when I turn on the TV and the…

Whew! Was I tired! It was hard to believe that I could have been suffering from post conference exhaustion when I spent the day sitting at my dining room table, but it’s true. Last Wednesday, I spent the day conversing with 400+ people from around the world and expanding my mind at Edmodocon. The online conference, run by and about the education social network platform Edmodo, was really quite the marathon…

 An entire universe of knowledge has been opened for me. Frankly I may have known it existed and just didn’t see the value in it. Now I don’t understand how students can learn to their full potential without technology. I constantly find myself thinking about web 2.0 tools, blogs and wikis and how I can apply them or help educators apply them to their classrooms and beyond. I see how the world has changed through technology and how schools are changing as…

10 Ways to Use QR Codes in Your Classroom

I doubt I would have ever ventured into Second Life if it wouldn't have been assigned as homework.  It was uncomfortable from the first moment I entered, and still weirds me out every time I launch it.   I feel totally out of control when I enter the space and no matter how many times I've attempted to figure it out I end up where I never…

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The current bulletin contains research findings, educational resources, conference information, etc. selected from journals and other Jewish education publications.



This issue contains a number of research articles and papers dealing with teacher education and mentoring and the impact of informal education programs on teens and young adults.



Some of our…

I've been struggling with a question recently and it seems that i am alone here but: Why don't i blog more?

Its been a few months in this fully immerse EdTech course and i am now equipped with some pretty cool tools, as well as the cool lingo that goes with it. I now have a twitter account, and so i tweet. I now have a blog, and so i blog. I'm working on a PLN with the hopes that one day i will PLN like crazy. But to be honest i have only recently discovered the phenomena of blogging…