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 [...]
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 [...]
Kudos to AJWS on their new project, On1Foot. On1Foot is an an open-source online database of Jewish texts on social justice. This is a resource that educators, service learning facilitators, rabbis, and learners of all ages can really dig into. The database includes the Hebrew and English citation of the text, the text itself in [...]
The Shaar Hanegev Middle School hosted a recent conference in the Southern Region of Israel to highlight the Kadima Mada (Science Journey) pilot project to integrate interactive whiteboards into Israeli schools. The project involves six schools and will be introduced to tens more in the next academic year. Speakers at the conference included Roni Kalinsky, [...]
Introducing a brand new shiny resource for Jewish educators – the Jewish Portal of Teacher Education sponsored by the MOFET Institute, an intercollegiate organization for teacher educators. MOFET JTEC features a searchable, online clearinghouse of resources for Jewish educators. The site currently includes abstracts of articles of interest to Jewish educators as well as links [...]
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