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Technology and Jewish Education

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CAJE 33

Caren Levine and I co-chaired the technology track for CAJE (Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education) 33. Many handouts from all the CAJE sessions are posted online.

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Started by Debbie Harris Jun 15.

Adrian A. Durlester

Using Twitter 2 Replies

Started by Adrian A. Durlester. Last reply by Caren Levine Jun 19.

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Jewish Media Ethics 1 Reply

Started by Debbie Harris. Last reply by J Cahn Apr 13.

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Caren Levine

Twitter, Twitter

I've been thinking a lot about twitter these days. There seems to be a real upsurge in interest, possibly fueled by the reporters who are starting to get on the band wagon and are writing about it in the popular press.

I recently posted on DarimOnline's blog, JewPoint0 "The Reason Your Church [Synagogue/ OrganContinue

Posted by Caren Levine on June 5, 2009 at 3:40pm

Debbie Harris

More on Wordle (x-posted from Muse For Jews)...

I've been playing around with Wordle and Hebrew. I know that I can type directly into Wordle and get Hebrew, but I wanted to see if there was anywhere on the Internet from which I could copy Hebrew text and paste it into Wordle.

I went to my old friend, Mechon-Mamre and found the section where there is letter-only text that displays vowels when you hover over it (which is actually pretty cool).

I copi… Continue

Posted by Debbie Harris on March 26, 2009 at 10:30am

Debbie Harris

Wordle

Have you seen Wordle? It's a wonderful website where you can put in a block of text and it creates a word cloud. It's a terrific way to analyze text. I've used it a bunch of ways to teach about adjectives or give the "flavor" of a book or speech.

I'd love to use it with Hebrew - has anyone figured out a way to do that?

Posted by Debbie Harris on March 26, 2009 at 9:39am

 
 

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Avital, Sheldon Levin, nancy Messinger and 1 more joined TorahTech9 hours ago
Cool idea, Adrian! Did you find an app you liked yet? Have you tweeted about it? Happy to retweet it - and maybe we can get some momentum going on the topic in general about tweeting in congregational schools :) Here are a few ideas of how educat...
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Your Israel pictures are amazing. I also love to take picks of beautiful entryways and interesting doors.
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I'm putting a presentation together for some local educators about new ways of communication. How are you using Twitter and Facebook - and are you using any other forms of social networking (like Ning?). Let me know - thanks!
Adrian, This goes along with something I posted on Muse For Jews some time ago about backchanneling - having real time conversations along side spoken remarks. I would love to have a webcast during the school year with kids backchanneling using T...
 

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