The Neveh Channah (Israel) – LCC (Canada) project is an exciting example of what talented high school educators and students can create together with support from Web 2.0 tools. The program is sponsored by the Israel Ministry of Education under the auspices of its Israeli Pedagogic Collaborative Learning Network.
The project topic for this year is Jerusalem, City of Hope. The group is studying poetry, song, and speeches. They are researching a variety of topics related to Jerusalem, including history, biographies, politics, literature, and art. The project illustrates how wikis can be used as platforms for meaningful communications and collaboration in learning.
Reuven Werber, the coordinator for Neveh Channah, writes:
We have been studying each other’s literature, learning about each other’s culture, participating in each other’s tours (via Google Video embedding) and most recently, LCC students have been peer reviewing our students’ English Language matriculation projects (bagrut) for formative assessment purposes.
The project wikis are found at:
Neveh Channah: http://jerusalem.wikispaces.com
Lower Canada College: http://montreal.wikispaces.com
See especially the LCC Responses Video which describes the project in more detail.
The project was featured in a recent presentation by Sharon Peters of Lower Canada College which can be found on the 3Cs wiki. Be sure to read through the entire presentation which offers insights into Web 2.0 and pedagogy and take note of the section, “What are some classroom practices,” which highlights the LCC and Neveh Channah School project. There is also a blurb in Hebrew about the project on the MOFET Institute’s Teachers College Education site.
Karen Guth, an English teacher at Neveh Channah, was a partner in the project as well. The initiative serves as a model for how a curricular content teacher and pedagogical technology coordinator can work together to create meaningful educational projects employing cutting edge technology.
For further information, contact:
Reuven Werber, Educational Technology Coordinator, Neveh Channah High School, Israel; National Instructor, IPNCL Project at reuw@nevnet.etzion.k12.il
Sharon Peters, English Instructor, Lower Canada College at sharonpeters@gmail.com
Yad Vashem recently created channels on YouTube for English and Arabic language videos. The videos include stories told by survivors of the Holocaust, speeches by prominent public figures including Elie Wiesel and Pope John Paul II, and information about Yad Vashem itself.