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This website was created to help with the specific 5th grade class at Temple Emunah. It can be uses as a prayer resource for learning Shabbat Shacharit Prayers or for seeing a model of a class website.

Project Based Learning's time has come. The experience of thousands of teachers across all grade levels and subject areas, backed by research, confirms that PBL is an effective and enjoyable way to learn. Why are so many educators across the United States and around the world interested in this teaching method?

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.

I came across this list of technology resources almost by accident but found that it added to the apps and resources that we have been exploring. I thought that it was helpful to have them categorized and organized in a way that grouped together applications based on their function, much like we have discussed in our class sessions. This list addresses the level of technology our students are experiencing in their daily lives and allows Jewish Educators to better implement technology in the classroom.

While "Kakatuv" as a website is not very interactive, it has been an invaluable resource for me as an educator. It has collected nearly every prayer and presents them in a legible PDF format along with transliteration and translation. Students who are just learning to read Hebrew have benefited a lot from this resource.

Each set is a group of trope in a common pattern one would find in the Hebrew bible. They include music notation and audio. Click on a link to launch the lesson in a new window. MP3s and practice sheets can be found on the downloads page. If you're looking for an iPad app set up in a similar way, check out "PocketTorah Trope."

An animated story for each of the 55 parashiot in the Torah.

G-dcast is a student-friendly website that includes short, fun, informative animated videos on lots of Jewish topics, including holidays, the parsha of the week, and Talmud.

Awesome, super cute videos! You can make these in your school too!

Check out the Educator's Backpack section - great teaching resources and lots of technology use!

This looks like a really powerful storyboarding tool. I'd recommend trying it.

Paper is a lovely program for the iPad that lets you draw with just your finger. The free version has a limited set of colors and only one pen, but it's very soothing to use. You could use it just to capture comments from your students the way you might use index cards.

This is useful if you need to fill in a document (letter, newsletter, flyer) with text just to see how it will look. I used this a lot when I worked in desktop publishing. Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

Storyboard That is a cutting edge Web 2.0 tool for rapidly creating amazing storyboards, no art skills needed. Great for business meetings and in the classroom for students to express their creativity. LL Note: If you want to print out the free version storyboard, it puts a big digital watermark across your pictures. I found a work-around for that: take a screen shot, then edit that picture as you need to. Short term, for small projects, it's workable. If I were going to use this on a regular basis, I'd ask my school to get us a subscription. It calls itself a storyboard program, but it really works much more like a comic strip. But it could be very useful for brainstorming in class. You can make 3 free storyboards a week, which might be enough for many of us. It's really easy to use, and you can customize some of the features with your choice of color.

Lookstein article on the challenges of technology integration into Jewish education

Miriam Berk, education director of Temple Reyim, shared this article with us in January. It raises several questions on how technology will assist, not supplant. the teacher.

Article about finding a healthy balance of technology in the Jewish classroom