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We are pleased to welcome guest blogger, Sue Loubser, Director of Technology at Greenfield Hebrew Academy, Atlanta, Georgia, who shares the story behind the development of their students’ new app for droid. About a month ago, as students in the fourth grade Jewish Studies class were learning about blessings over food, a student raised his [...]

Sunday, November 7 marks the culmination of the tremendous work undertaken by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz to make the Talmud more accessible to more people.  The completion of the Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud – 45 volumes translated over nearly 50 years – will be celebrated through a variety of global and local events. Local communities [...]

Crowdsourcing is a way of collecting knowledge by leveraging the expertise of networks of individuals.  Tom Barrett uses it to great effect in his “Interesting Ways” series – definitely a must see resource for educators.  As we mentioned in an earlier post, Tom taps into his extensive and generous professional learning network of educators to [...]

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 [...]

We are pleased to welcome guest blogger,  Rabbi Karen G. Reiss Medwed, PhD! Note: This article was originally posted on the Hebrew College blog.  Be sure to take a look at the comments that were shared there, and read the Hebrew College blog for other thoughtful posts from the HC community! Picture this: You walk [...]

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 [...]

I had the pleasure of hearing David Klevan speak today at the 3DTLC Conference in Washington about his work at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  David shared his experiences related to the work that the USHMM is doing in Second Life. In observance of the annual Days of Remembrance, the United States Holocaust Memorial [...]