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Years ago, at one point in my tenure at JESNA, I was the director of the National Educational Resource Center (yes, NERC), a forerunner of today’s Sosland Resource Center at JESNA.  NERC housed published and teacher-made curricular resources which we made available or provided citations for, as appropriate. We regularly received requests from central organizations [...]

(cross-posted on TechStew). A few posts ago, we wrote about personal and organizational “friending” policies on social networks like Facebook. Many thanks to Shayna Kreisler, BBYO’s Director, Education and Teen Initiatives, and her colleagues for their willingness to share their organization’s social networking policy. BBYO is a provider of identity-building and leadership development programs for [...]

The Jewish Communal Service Association of North America is holding its annual conference on Thursday, June 5 at 4pm EDT in New York. And online. The conference, “LINKED: Maximizing technology for the future of the Jewish community,” features keynote Allison Fine, author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, winner of the 2007 [...]

Attention middle school/ high school educators in Jewish congregational or complementary learning settings: Are you looking for opportunities to integrate educational technologies and new media like blogs, wikis, and social networking into your work? Are you a creative, curious, risk-taking educator in a Jewish congregational or other complementary Jewish educational setting? Do you work with [...]

Take a look over at On One Foot, Joshua Hammerman’s blog. His recent posting, “No More ‘Three Day’ Jews” reflects on the emerging cultural impact of the web 2.0 world on Jewish learning and identity. The article was also published in The Jewish Week. And be sure to check out Joshua’s explorations of ethical issues [...]

It’s been a good season for sharing ideas about educational technology and Jewish learning in print. Two Jewish educational publications recently highlighted the use of technology in Jewish learning. RAVSAK devoted their Pesach 2007 edition of HaYidion to “Technology and Jewish Education.” The entire issue will be available online at www.ravsak.org under “Publications.” For further [...]

EDC’s Center for Children and Technology created a website for teachers and students to help promote digital literacy. The interactive website, Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century – Digital Literacy Toolkit, includes online tutorials and activities that emphasize the different uses of media and their powers of persuasion. The site focuses on the grammar [...]