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By Caren N. Levine, Stan Silverman, Ellen Meier Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE), 2006 Discussions of effective, quality Jewish education are not complete without attention paid to the medium through which it is designed and delivered. Increasingly, this involves new technologies, including computers, telecommunications, video, webcasting, audio files, and more. It is therefore incumbent on the Jewish educational community to encourage the appropriate use of new technologies and multiple media in the creation, delivery, and support of Jewish learning.

Jewish Interactive makes Jewish learning relevant, fun & engaging by blending 21st century digital technology with Jewish traditions and Torah learning. The Educator section allows you to download clip art for many of the Holidays and curriculum areas, provides PowerPoint presentations and additional teaching resources as well as links and blog entries from other educators. Interactive White Board Resources are also available for purchase. Corresponding apps are available in the AppStore.

This resource from the Jewish Women's Archive features primary documents and lesson plans for Jewish educators. Use these texts and lessons in your classrooms, family education programs, youth group activities, and adult education courses."Go & Learn" is published here on the JWA website. Stay tuned for more editions of "Go & Learn."

Pages with easy-to-understand information about Jewish holidays and traditions. Geared for children a little older than preschool--for teachers and parents.

Jewish TED talks

Extensive collection of material on the history of American Jewish women. Teachers will find the section Go & Learn useful pjwa.org/teach/golearn. It has primary documents and lesson plans. Also, the website contains an encyclopedia of famous Jewish women. There are multimedia exhibits with lesson plans as well.

This blog reflects on Jewish Education in the 21st Century, as we begin to discover the contextual ramifications of 21st Century life on Jewish learning, practice and living.

Torah in Motion has become an internationally recognized organization known for its innovative and creative programming. People look forward to our special brand of intellectual honesty, openness, relevance and tradition. We are proud of the diversity of speakers, the differences of opinion, the nuance, and the complexity we bring to our programming. We learn, study, teach, discuss, debate over the key issues facing the Jewish world.

A resource center for Jewish learning, reflecting the diversity and pluralism of world Jewry.

A Jewish learning site for children

A curriculum using Jewish music to teach text study, values & ethics, Hebrew, and social justice within a Judaic framework. Materials for students, parents, teachers, and musicians to learn about Jewish music news and information.

Resources and multi-media on a wide range of Jewish topics

Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC)'s site on Tzedek-related topics (e.g., Homelessness, Poverty). Click on "Jewish Educational Resources" to see links to a variety of resources, curricula, and learning activities.

Portal for Jewish teacher education

Participants can sign up to receive a one-page e-mail each day on a topic of Jewish interest.

Information, resources and reflection on Jewish early childhood education

Thanks, Lisa. This one is especially helpful to me. Have you see any of the blogs that Ellen Dietrick has done? She is the new director at the Temple Beth Shalom Nursery School in Needham, and she uses blogging to involve parents in a way that is rich, deep, and meaningful. Her blogs are private, though, so I cannot share the link with you, but perhaps you or I could drop her an e-mail if you'd like to see. At TOS, we are anticipating replacing our weekly newsletters to parents with blogs beginning this summer or next fall, so I was interested in looking at this one! I think that this tool is useful in its ability to communicate more efficiently with parents (and with other educators and community members) and to engage them more deeply. I also feel that blogging can be a great way to make connections between curriculum, activities, and child development more transparent for parents through the use of tags. For example, you could tag all of the activities that incorporate, for example, Israel, and then parents could see how Israel is integrated strongly throughout the curriculum. I have used blogging before. I personally find it very user friendly.It produces a strong documentation of children's learning over time, and of the growth of curriculum over time. I do feel that one of the dangers of blogging, however, is the ability to quickly publish information without much editing. I noticed in the first post today on this blog that were a few type-os! I think that particularly in early childhood education, there is a need to produce quality well-written communications to demonstrate that educators are knowledgeable and themselves well-trained.

Ron Berger is the Chief Program Officer of this organization and this website is chock full of information and student work from project-based learning in a network of schools. Videos of EL core practices can be found at: www.vimeo.com/channels/corepractices

click on the text (PDF) or audio (MP3) link next to the prayer name. Each text file includes the Hebrew prayer in an easy-to-read format, transliteration of the Hebrew words, a contemporary translation into English, and an introduction to the prayer's context and meaning. You can then hear the correctly chanted version by clicking on the audio file. Even if you're an adult, it's never too late to learn!