All Blog Posts Tagged 'tools' (8)

Wikis vs Edmodo

 Google Art Project (http://www.googleartproject.com/) is a fantastic visual learning tool that allows students to explore museums all over the world without leaving their classroom.  Google Art Projects allows you to explore museums and great works of art while learning the significant value that each piece/artifact possesses.  Currently there…

My favorite productivity tool is Evernote. Since using Evernote, I feel as if I really have become more organized. What is Evernote?  It is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. Each note can contain formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched and…

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.  …

Web 2.0 is about revolutionary new ways of creating, collaborating, editing and sharing user-generated content online. It's also about ease of use. There's no need to download, and teachers and students can master many of these tools in minutes. Technology has never been easier or more accessible to everyone. The Web 2.0 tools directory Go2web20  publishes over 3,000 services and uploads more everyday.…

(Sigh)  I hate to sound like an old curmudgeon because I really like technology.  But all of the tools I tried for the this week's tech-course assignment seem so labor-intensive.  Which is fine, if there's a distinct payoff that makes them worthwhile.  I hate to say it but the amount of time that an individual instructor would need to invest in creating a video, or cartoons, or other media for instructional use seems disproportionate to the potential impact.  More than that, it diverts…

Legacy Heritage Fund is proud to share with you its newest effort to integrate technology into Jewish education: Dah Bear, a Hebrew language tool which will encourage higher levels of Hebrew vocabulary mastery by students. This dynamic new educational online tool is free of charge and intended for use by teachers and students in school and at home.

Teachers may easily submit…

"I was always more of a visual learner" is one of the most common comments i get from parents and teachers when discussing students. It seems that even though there are many different kinds of learners (kinesthetic, auditory, sensory etc) most people respond well to visual learning. that's why its more imperative than ever to employ visual tools in the classroom. Judaic teachers in schools across the country are realizing that when lesson planning they must integrate a visual learning tool…