CAJE 32 Sessions: Jewish Education and Technology
This year’s annual CAJE conference includes a number of interesting sessions that address the use of educational technology in Jewish education. An entire conference track is devoted to technology as a tool to engage learners. There are at least 28 sessions that address the field, including Wednesday evening’s keynote (see the previous jlearn2.0 posting for a more detailed description of the keynote).
A quick scan of the conference program yields the following sessions:
Free on the Web! Internet Resources for the Classroom and Beyond (Deborah Harris); BabagaNewz Connects: E-lesson Plans, Virtual Tours and Online Jewish Games (Lisa Micley); Plugging in Your Religious School (Deborah Harris); Introducing Technology Into Every Aspect of the School (Philip Gaethe, Jeremy Poisson); Integrating Technology: The jbop Experiment (Danny Paller, Susan Rheins); Learning Communities for Professional Development: Case Studies and Best Practices (Lisa Colton, Naava Frank); Jewish tradition and MySpace, YouTube, and Facebook (Joan Glazer Farber); Creating Presentations With PowerPoint (David Harris, Deborah Harris); Improve Your Use of Technology: Best Practices for Congregational Educators (Lisa Colton); Techno-Torah: Cable Television as Jewish Education (Aley Sheer); Explorer’s Bible 3D Adventure—Creating a Virtual Bible World (Jeremy Poisson); Using the Internet for Marketing, Outreach, and Engagement in Learning (Lisa Colton); So You Think You Want a WIKI? (Deborah Harris); Exploring the Social Networking Websites: MySpace, YouTube, and more! (Daniel Held); Hooking Today’s Techno-Savvy Students (Jeremy Poisson); Technology Included…Enhance and Strengthen Your Hebrew School Curriculum! (Marsha Axler); From Sinai to Cyberspace: Bridging the Gap (Efraim Mintz); “Dad, I Want to Do My Hebrew Homework” — Using Hebrew Software in School and at Home (Kim Beame, Terry Kaye); Being a Web-Mensch: When Jewish Values and Technology Coincide and Collide (Deborah Harris); Blogging 101 (David Harris, Deborah Harris); To Google or not to Google? Navigating Judaic Content Websites (Brian Amkraut); Creating Hebrew Centers in Early Childhood Classrooms (Ora Kurland); Reel Learning: Using Film More Productively in the Classroom (Amelia Klein); Creating an On-Line Living Museum (Paul Radensky); Jewish Genealogy: Reconnecting the Klal and Preserving the Memory of the Shoah (Jonina Duker); Jewish Education 2.0: Identity, Community, and Religion in the Age of Internet 2.0 (Brian Amkraut); and, Podcasting 101 (Deborah Harris).
Also of interest is the session The Personal Touch: An Approach to Religious School Education without Technology (Sherry Blumberg).
Check out the CAJE conference program for detailed descriptions and for additional conference sessions.