All Blog Posts Tagged 'Technology' (12)

This past September I became an educational technology coordinator at an Orthodox Jewish day school. I had been a technology teacher at this school for 8-years prior to taking on this new role. I knew that one of the most challenging aspects of taking on this position was to get those that do not believe in using technology as a teaching tool,  to believe. This past week, an Ivrit teacher, a 26-year veteran at our school, used technology in her classroom for the first time ever! The Morah’s…

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After a month of paperless classes, learning was going strong. Here are 5 of my most meaningful observations:



1- Students with organizational issues were excelling using their 'digital backpacks' and were championing their time management. (Ironically those same students weren't necessarily excelling in their other subjects.) Two students who I spoke with mentioned they enjoyed learning with a computer and they felt good about themselves because they were staying organized with…

 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…

Forty-one posts later...

...I have spent some time rereading the titles of the forty-one blog posts I have written this year and cherry-picked a few to reread so that I would have some sense of how to tie up in a neat bow my adventure in blogging this year.  Rather than regurgitate that which you are welcome to reread yourself, I though I would share an illustrative anecdote that took place last week:

I received an…

Although Twitter has been available to the general public since 2006 I just started using it this year.  Twitter is a powerful social and networking tool. In the months since I began tweeting I have used Twitter primarily for educational purposes. I began by reading tweets from other educational professionals both in general and  Jewish educational fields and starting following some of them. The more tweets I read the more I understood how they could be incorporated into educational…

Legacy Heritage SMARTBoard Project offers educators in Jewish day schools and supplemental schools FREE SMARTBoard lessons through its SMARTBoard Jewish Educational Database (SJED).

SJED contains a large and growing database (2,200+) of interactive SMARTBoard lessons submitted by Jewish educators from across the United States. Educators may download lessons, free of charge, in any…

Recently someone in my personal learning network e-mailed me this clip of Casey Heynes, an Australian boy, who after being bullied his entire life, finally took a stand. One day recently while he was being physically and verbally bullied, something in his mind snapped, and Casey literally picked up and body slammed his aggressor to the ground. The aggressor…

Thanks to Leslie Salley, who tweeted about this...apparently, in Memphis, a place very near and dear to my heart and my hometown :) , the city (public) schools are putting place graduation requirements which include taking a certain amount of online courses. (See HERE for the article,…

Great blog post from a great blog called "Connected Principals" which, incidentally, our own Rabbi Akevy Greenblatt (or on twitter @Akevy613 ) is a contributor to! The post is written by George Couros, a principal in Alberta, and can be read by clicking here:…