Is your day school high school/ yeshiva integrating online learning in general studies as part of its formal course catalogue? Is your school gearing up to launch such a program during the 2011-2012 academic year? If so, check out the new DigitalJLearning Network, a partnership of The Jewish Education Project, JESNA, and the AVI CHAI [...]
It’s exciting to see the launch of the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund, a collaboration of Jim Joseph Foundation, Righteous Persons Foundation, and Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. Even more exciting will be to see the creativity, projects, partnerships, and energy that will emerge from this challenge! From their site: Our three funders are [...]
The AVI CHAI Foundation recently announced its second round of grants to support creative uses of technology for Jewish education in day schools: Grants of $2,000 to $10,000 are available for those educators who can identify and develop innovative approaches to using technology in their teaching. Applications will be accepted up to December 1, 2008, [...]
Do you have an innovative idea? Of course you do! Do you have an emerging NYC-based, Jewish, non-profit? Do you know someone who does? An announcement from our friends at Bikkurim: Bikkurim: An Incubator for New Jewish Ideas is accepting applications for 2008. Bikkurim seeks innovative, NYC-based, Jewish, non-profit projects that are in early stages [...]
Congratulations to the educators who were recently awarded Avi Chai’s Educational Technology Experimentation Grants and to their schools! The projects represent a range of multimedia resources including podcasts, webcasts, websites, software, interactive curriculum, and SMARTBoard materials for Jewish learning. Below is a listing of the recipients. Please see the Avi Chai Technology site for more [...]
According to the Avi Chai Tech blog, the Foundation received around 180 proposals for their new Educational Technology Experimentation grants. Avi Chai is in the process of selecting winning proposals and will announce the grantees shortly. In the meantime, the Foundation took note of the types of tools and projects that schools were interested in [...]
The Covenant Foundation recently announced a new Jewish education grant program in addition to their signature Covenant Grants: one-year Ignition Grants of up to $20,000 for ideas that are not yet ready for a multi-year Covenant Grant. The grants, which are awarded to institutions, agencies, or organizations, are intended to help explore new, untested ideas [...]
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