All Blog Posts Tagged 'education' (17)

Edmodo (http://www.edmodo.com/) is a free, safe, closed and private classroom community that brings students together.  Edmodo was founded in 2008 and as of September, 2012 it has reached a milestone of over 10-million users.  Edmodo allows teachers to create closed, safe groups that can allow students (and parents) to join their virtual classrooms.   As a technology coordinator at a Jewish day school I was so pleased to know that no private information…

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As an educator, I want to utilize   tools that allow students to maximize their ability to collaborate with people all over the world.  Twitter is a social media site that can allow students and teachers to do just that!  Whether you want your students to Tweet and respond to homework assignments, create networks with other students in the same club (i.e.:  yearbook, choir, etc.), communicate with Scientist (or other experts), and/or to engage students in current events happening around the…

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I thoroughly enjoyed Molly Hazan’s discussion post titled “Technology and Chumash?”  (http://yu20.org/forum/topics/technology-and-chumash?xg_source=activity)

     She raises two important points. First she writes that Chumash is kodosh and traditionally learned from a Chumash. Secondly she continues, her Chumash lessons are designed to touch the heart and technology will cheapen…

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Legacy Heritage Fund is thrilled to announce the launch of the enhanced phase of Dah Bear, a free online tool which assists students in mastering Hebrew vocabulary. Dah Bear was released on a pilot basis at the end of the last academic year. Dah Bear contains over 1,200 word lists and is being used in the classrooms of more than 275 teachers in over 90 schools around the world.  …

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The topic of the effectiveness of technology in education is one that has gotten a lot of attention, anywhere from this site to the publicity it received nationally due to the recent NY Times article. My recent parent teacher conference day led me to share my own thoughts on the matter.

In completion of my YU Partnership Ed Tech Course of 2011, I undertook to create a wiki for my 6th grade Gemara classes. The wiki contained handouts that we did in class or that were assigned…

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I have been privileged to be a member of YU 2.0 and YUTEACH since their respective inceptions. I love being a member of these soical networking sites because they help expose me as a jewish educator to a number of technology integrated lessons and ideas that i would never normally encounter. On YU 2.0 i found an amazing lesson plan on how to use twitter in a gemara class complete with step by step instructions on how to replicate the lesson. Now i dont teach gemara myself but i can see how to… Continue

I’ve been on vacation for the past week. While we basked in the sun and surf of Florida’s west coast, I was reading a biography of the musician, Jerry Garcia. Every few pages I would come upon a reference to a song or concert and would immediately grab my smartphone to go online and look for any recordings or, even better, video of early concerts…

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What’s Torah got to do with it?  I’m growing a whole new level of respect for Nachshon!  Here goes… I’m jumping in

 

Podcasts and Vodcasts have been around for a while, but might have been given a new life, as technology is rapidly integrating into education systems.  I have never experimented with creating either, but have listened to a myriad of podcasts over the years – from Car Talk to This…

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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…

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Dear chevre and colleagues:





The Google Document spreadsheet that we have been working on for the past 10 months, https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVHRiMW9xDMfZGRycHJnaGZfODZjdzd0czlkMg&hl=en, is now ready for your examination. This spreadsheet contains a list of web tools for Jewish educators and staff developers in these… Continue

Pesach is a time for questions.

 

So, in the spirit of the season, I would like to ask you some.  I’ll start with one: How do Jewish educators learn to use 21st century educational technology in the Jewish classroom?  This will lead to a few more.  What follows is a survey with 15 questions (an auspicious number for Pesach). The goal of this short (5-8 minutes) questionnaire is to find some answers to the question of how and…

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“I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date!”  I feel like the white rabbit.  You know, rushing hither and yon, trying to figure out how to get where I need to go without being too distracted by all the tweets, network posts, and blogs I follow; not to mention the old technologies like the printed word and emails. There is so much information available to us.  If I miss a day of twitter, I feel it’s a catastrophe.



I’m not a technical neophyte.  I sort of know what’s going on. …

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As I reflect on the Jewish Educators Assembly conference that just ended, the lyrics of an old song pops into my head: “There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.” It’s not that we’re clueless when it comes to us knowing what Jewish education will look like in the future; it’s just that we’re not sure in what direction we’ll be traveling.



So…maybe we are a little clueless after all.



Let me back up for a moment. The close to 200 participants at the… Continue