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Friday Links You’ll Love
J. K. Rowling on failure and the importance of imagination:
Check out The Lookstein Center’s page on teaching tefillah
The list includes websites with lesson plans, research articles and even some PowerPoint presentations.
How about a trip to the New York Public Library? Looking for newspaper illustrations of Broadway from 1899? How about photographs from Ellis Island at the beginning of the 20th century? Not only are there some stunning finds here, but many of them are copyright-free as well, which makes them FABULOUS options for students to use in their work.
More of a Chicago fan, are you? Then check out The Field Museum’s photostream at Flickr.
Think Facebook is just for finding old friends and playing games? Here’s a great article about a unique use for social media – keeping the memory alive of one who perished in the Holocaust.
Our LA teachers are using Ning, a private social network, to teach about The Outsiders, and one of our math teachers created a famous mathematician social network. How can you use one?
Israel…live in your classroom
Friday night at synagogue my rabbi spoke for a few minutes about the Women of the Wall. It occurred to me that this would be a good thing about which to teach my 8th and 9th graders. And, after all, I had an expert at my disposal…my daughter, who had just davened with the Women of the Wall last rosh chodesh.
I really wanted my kids to hear about this from her, but she’s there and we’re not.
Enter Skype, a computer and a projector…
Easy peasy. We Skyped with her from my wifi-connected computer, while she was projected on my classroom wall, and the kids got to hear firsthand about the Women of the Wall.
I’m dying to use this again!
Friday Links You’ll Love
Flip The Script – this is a movie made by 6th graders about leaving people out
Really terrific movie about butterflies – created by three girls
Thinking about using ComicLife with your students? Check out this slide show to get some good ideas. And, by the way, this is a great example of using GoogleDocs presentation to collect ideas from a group of people!
Speaking of the Google folks, this is BRAND NEW, people! Now you can upload ANY document to GoogleSpace! Not just GoogleDocs – ANY DOCUMENT! Yes, gang, you can consider Google to be your own personal flashdrive in the sky! Google has a whole webpage to tell you about it here.
Edvideos – are you looking for a video to reinforce a concept? Check out WatchKnow. Directed by Wikipedia’s founder, this site endeavors to create, organize and create educational videos (not a small task).
Social media transforming the way synagogues, members connect
Interesting article about synagogues using new technologies…
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How to be a Tummler
How to be a Tummler – Designing for Conversation
Tummel is a Yiddish word meaning noise (as in much tumult)
Comedian Heather Gold talks about how to engage everyone in your community. Really something to think about.
Tktchr’s Friday Links You’ll Love
1. Math music videos – Sylvia Tolisano (who blogs as Langwitches) created math music videos with her middle schoolers. Where can you use this with your students? If you can export to jpgs (like from ComicLife or PowerPoint), you can upload to Animoto.
2. Wallwisher. This is a fun site where you can create a “wall” and have your students post stickies on it. I’ve created one here.
3. TED (Technology, Education and Design) talks. I’m sure many of you have been to this incredible website before. At TED – you can hear talks by some amazing people about amazing things. Here you can watch Dave Eggers talk about starting his tutoring business, Alexis Ohanian talk about starting Reddit, his social-voting news website, and Steve Jobs of Apple talking about how to live before you die.
4. 60 second recap. This sites summarizes great works of literature in a minute. Not only can you read Jenny’s assessment of the plot, characters, symbols, etc. of great works like Hamlet, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, you can record your own response as well. I love the idea of taking the greats and condensing down to one minute.
5. Designing For Conversation. In this YouTube video, comedian Heather Gold talks to Google staffers about the difference between conversation and presentation.
Minute-by-minute Purim
So… let’s experiment
Let’s say that everybody in the whole world who participates in Purim activities tweeted what they’re doing (including tweeting photos)….
and preceded those tweets with the hashtag #mbmpurim (that means minute-by-minute Purim)
Then, you could follow that hashtag and see what the world is doing for Purim
Thoughts?
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Wallwisher
Wallwisher looks like a fun site.
You can have a group of students go to the site and post to your wall (I can’t help thinking of a connection between a wall and The Wall…). There’s a good slideshow on tips for using it and ways to use it in the classroom here.
I created one for my staff here. We’ll see how people choose to use it.
I’ve been thinking about…
Big picture thinking:
Building community – how the read/write web will impact our communities. Community used to be defined so narrowly – where you lived, where you worked, where you prayed. Now those restrictions are gone. What now?
Little picture thinking:
Jewish crafting – again. Why is there no cohesive online Jewish crafting community (maybe that’s a big picture/little picture mashup – dunno)
About
Debbie Harris is the technology coordinator at the Sager Solomon Schechter Middle School in Northbrook, IL and teaches religious school at Lakeside Congregation for Reform Judaism. Involved in Jewish education for over thirty years, she received an education degree from Northwestern University with a concentration in instructional media. She is skilled in using and teaching desktop publishing, video editing, presentation and animation software; and consults and presents regularly on integrating technology into Judaic studies. Her students podcast, blog, edit video and create claymations. She co-chaired the technology track for CAJE 33 in Vermont.
When not learning, teaching or writing about technology, Debbie likes to craft. While not particularly highly skilled at anything, she likes to knit, do calligraphy, sew, paint fabric and just generally play with fun toys like scrapbooking supplies, watercolors, and anything with texture. She is incredibly proud of her two daughters; Lori, who is a high school English teacher; and Allie, who is a student at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem.
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