Below is an article by Karen Guth, the English teacher at Neveh Channah who participated in this award-winning international project. Karen offers a description of the schools’ collaborative work, both online and off. She also shares additional reflections on the impact of the project on the students. The collaborative project has provided my 10th grade [...]
More good news! The Neveh Channah (Israel) – LCC (Canada) project cited in our April 18, 2007 post was awarded the second place ISTE Online Learning Award (Telelearning Special Interest Group).The international project, From Jerusalem to Montreal, is a collaboration of high school English students and their teachers. We asked the faculty involved to share [...]
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 [...]
The Lippman Kanfer Institute is an action-oriented think tank for innovation in Jewish learning and engagement. It recently developed a wiki through which to disseminate its work and to elicit feedback. The Institute’s first major initiative is “Redesigning Jewish Education for the 21st Century,” an opportunity to map out an agenda and strategy for ensuring [...]
Two interesting quotes from recent books: From The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, Release 2.0 by Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2006 (pp. 10-11): The flat-world platform is the product of a convergence of the personal computer (which allowed every individual suddenly to become the author of his [...]
A recent posting on the jlearn2.0 wiki noted the difficulty of introducing the use of a new technology, in this case, a wiki. In theory, the use of the wiki would seem to be a natural tool for collaboration on a project by colleagues who are already familiar with one another but who are geographically [...]
How are educators thinking about blogs? Blogs are generally considered to be online journals. In terms of format, they are made up of entries that are organized chronologically, the most recent listed first, and can be further indexed by topic. Blogs often include a mixture of text content, audio, photographs, videos, and links to other [...]
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