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Share your talent with the rest of the world! The Legacy Heritage Fund is sponsoring a SJED Lesson Stimulus Contest to highlight exceptional lesson plans that take advantage of SMARTBoards. Prizes will be awarded to day schools and supplementary schools, and to teachers for outstanding SMARTBoard lessons. Prizes you say? Yes, the top five schools [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
“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 [...]
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