As Seen on New Jewish Education: "Do-It-Yourself" Jewish Education
New Jewish Education, a blog by Saul Kaiserman, offers commentary on and resources for Jewish education.
In a recent posting, “’Do-it-Yourself’ Jewish Education gaining momentum?” dated January 5, 2007, Saul muses on how Internet-based initiatives can empower and guide individuals toward resources for meaningful Jewish learning and community interactions. He cites the work of Douglas Rushkoff (“open-source-Judaism”) and Daniel Sieradski (”Jew-It-Yourself”).
In addition, Saul notes several wiki projects with Jewish content including the Wikisource Open Mishna Project with text in English and Hebrew (as well as other languages), and JHEN: the Jewish Home Educational Network for Jewish homeschoolers.
Saul also describes resources about Israel that can be found on Flickr in his post, “Two quick web resources for teaching Israel” dated November 24, 2006, and listed under “technology.”
For more about the movement toward “do-it-yourself-Judaism” and the role of the community, see Jonathan Woocher’s article, “Jewish Education in the Age of Google.” In it, Jon discusses the use of the Internet for Jewish education as both a tool and a metaphor for how individuals and the community approach Jewish learning. The article is published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and was previously cited in jlearn2.0 under “Advocacy.”
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