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For some holiday flickr fun, check out this digital greeting card and its associated site: MatzoGami slideshow (note: it plays slightly out of sequence) MatzoGami site on flickr Photos attributed to P&L Personality Plugin. Looking for resources on Passover? Click on over to New Jewish Education, where Saul Kaiserman recommends a number of educational sites [...]

Educators are using blogs as a means to develop reading, writing, and information and communication technology (ICT) literacies. Blogs also provide a forum for collaboration, information gathering, knowledge building, and publishing. Below are a few examples of how blogs can be integrated into Jewish educational settings: Students in a writing class use blogs as their [...]

Jeff Utecht is an educator who publishes two blogs: U Tech Tips and The Thinking Stick. Jeff created general tutorials on the use of flickr and del.icio.us for the educational community. These tutorials are available from his blogs under “screencasts.” He also posted the tutorials on YouTube: Using flickrUsing del.icio.us The segments were created in [...]

There are a number of ways to use Flickr in educational settings, as discussed previously. Here is a short tutorial to show some features. Go to the Flickr home page and try this out: in the search area, type the word “synagogue” and hit Go. This will call up photographs collected on Flickr that are [...]

Flickr is a free image management and organization tool. Most people use it to upload and share their photographs, but other images like digital art, clip art, and primary documents can be uploaded as well. These images can be grouped into online albums (“sets”) and slide shows, and shared publicly or with a select guest [...]