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Thanks to my friend and colleague, LaDonna Coy, over at Technology in Prevention for highlighting a new publication by educator and blogger Liz Davis of The Power of Educational Technology. Liz recently published a spanking new version of 21st Century Technology Tools: Tutorials for Teachers, Second Edition. It is available on lulu.com in book format [...]

Wordle.net is a nifty tool for making designs out of words and adding some fun to graphics. Check it out! And here’s another nifty tool that I picked up at the CAJE Bloggers Café: Gate2Home, a virtual keyboard for languages including…Hebrew. Need quick access to a Hebrew font on any computer with an Internet connection? [...]

Ok, taking a page from Langwitches and others, what were some of your favorite resources, tools, educational concepts from the past (secular) year? What was it about these resources that you found compelling? Feel free to include resources you might have developed. Shameless plugs encouraged in a menschy kind of way.

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 [...]

One of the challenges of sorting through information on the web is accessing it in a way that is organized and efficient. Many webites and blogs, this one included, use syndication feeds like RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) or Atom to send updated material to one central site. These central sites are [...]

“Boards aren’t smart. People are smart.”– kindergarten day school student Interactive whiteboards, such as SMARTboards, are becoming increasingly popular among Jewish schools and other educational organizations. The white board surface is basically a very large mouse pad that tracks touch movement. Content is projected onto the whiteboard from a computer monitor. What makes these whiteboards [...]

EDC’s Center for Children and Technology created a website for teachers and students to help promote digital literacy. The interactive website, Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century – Digital Literacy Toolkit, includes online tutorials and activities that emphasize the different uses of media and their powers of persuasion. The site focuses on the grammar [...]