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[cross-posted on JewPoint0] Shalom Sesame: NextGen.  The good people at Shalom Sesame are rolling out the release of the first two of twelve dvds in their new series.  It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since the first edition on video; I am pleased to report that Moshe Oofnik has not aged – nor [...]

Looking for professional development opportunities in Jewish education? Check out MOFET’s Online Academy winter 2010 semester of online educational offerings … The Online Academy offers four tracks: The Didactics of Teaching Hebrew as a Foreign Language The Didactics of Teaching the Holocaust The Didactics of Teaching Talmudic Literature and Oral Law The Didactics of Teaching [...]

Many of us are already familiar with the Legacy Heritage SMART Board Project through its grants program. The Foundation invited Jewish schools to apply for grants to receive interactive whiteboards and staff training. Building on this generous opportunity, Legacy Heritage has launched the Smart Board Jewish Educational Database (SJED) .  SJED is an online resource [...]

VoiceThread is a digital storytelling tool that allows users to create and share multimedia audio-video presentations. Students, teachers, and families are using this nifty tool to tell their stories and share ideas. Here’s an example of how an Israeli class at Maaganim School at Kibbutz Maagan Michael used VoiceThread to practice Hebrew and English language [...]

Skype is a software application that provides voice over internet protocol (VoIP) functionality. In other words, it’s a program that allows users to make free or low-cost telephone calls over the Internet. Skype is being used by the educational community in a number of ways, including intercultural projects, distance learning, and professional development. Users can [...]

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 [...]

Here’s an idea that integrates digital learning skills and Hebrew language. Students and educators can develop digital slideshows with narration using Photo Story 3 for Windows, a free application from Microsoft that is popular with educators and relatively easy to use. Students can create a multimedia presentation on specific topics or compose fictional stories and [...]