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Making Jewish Connectedness Happen
Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation
Rabbi Arnold D. Samlanwww.JewishConnectivity.com
@JewishConnectiv
Opinion: The primary goal of Jewish learning today is to reawaken the Jewish habit of mind of building connections◦ between Jew and Jew◦ between Jew and non-Jewish family members◦ between Jew and non-Jewish friends and neighbors, sharing in
Jewish experiences◦ between bits (and bytes) of Jewish knowledge and wisdom◦ between bits (and bytes) of Jewish knowledge and wisdom and
the knowledge and wisdom of our friends and neighbors and their cultural and spiritual heritages
◦ Between Jew & Jew and between Jew and non-Jewish family members
The goal of Jewish Education today is not content mastery but connectedness
What do you want to be connected with? What do you want your students to be
connected with? What do you want families to be connected
with?
Questions for YOU
Social Media Revolution Teacher Learning example: @
JewishConnectiv
Why should we use Social Media?
Martin J. Gottleib Day School Blogs Somers school podcasts Podcast from BBYO & Jewish Connectivity MetroWest Jewish Day School Hebrew Rap USY Tefillin Video
Samples of Student Created Media
Blogger (www.blogger.com) – Basic, simple to use site to set up blogs Kidblog (www.kidblog.org) – Basic, simple to use site for children’s and class blogs Edublog (www.edublog.org) – Basic simple to use site for children’s and class blogs Poll Everywhere (www.polleverywhere.com) – Great site to have kids answer
questions or vote in class Animoto (www.animoto.com) – Simple site to create short videos Twitter (www.twitter.com) – Great for short conversations, teacher learning,
following smart people to see what they’re doing. Once you set up the account on the site, use another site, such as TweetDeck or Hootsuite to actually manage it
Google Maps and Google Earth (www.google.com) – How you really want to teach geography
You Tube (www.youtube.com) – Great site to find educational videos and to post your own
Wordle (www.wordle.net) – Make word pictures out of documents, stories, etc. Try it, you’ll be hooked
Skype (www.skype.com) – Great way to bring guests to your class without transportation costs
Podomatic (www.podomatic.com) – Good tool to create and post podcasts …and of course, Facebook (www.facebook.com)
Web 2.0 Starters
How will YOU empower your students to share what they’ve learned using the power of social media?
Learners as Teachers
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