Chevre,

While planning for the upcoming year you might want to investigate this YouTube which explains how to use and implement Jewish Integrated Experiential Learning Activities in your formal and informal settings.

This is the url for the YouTube explaining how to use the Jewish Integrated Experiential Learning Activities Chart:http://youtu.be/edeewDS-G18

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LimmudBoston December 4, 2011

@Congregation Mishkan Tefila, Chestnut Hill, MA

REGISTER NOW for LimmudBoston 2011!

LimmudBoston is an annual celebration of Jewish culture for everyone exploring their Jewish journey. LimmudBoston includes text and study and food and music and all kinds of sessions for all ages and all learners. We are thrilled that Congregation Mishkan Tefila has offered their building for hosting LimmudBoston this year.

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The universe is expanding. That’s the core of the Big Bang Theory. As the cosmos gets older, everything in it moves apart. Not to delve too much into such esoterica like Hubbles Law, I need to affirm - אני מאמין - I'm a believer. In the last week I experienced something akin to this phenomenon in my own universe. Let’s call it the Virtual Big Bang.



Last Wednesday I participated in the first #jedchat., organized by Dov…

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Legacy Heritage Fund is proud to share with you its newest effort to integrate technology into Jewish education: Dah Bear is a Hebrew language tool which will encourage higher levels of Hebrew vocabulary mastery by students. This dynamic new educational online…

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Chevre,



I thought you might like to read this email sent to Rabbi Shalom Berger, Lookstein Center for Jewish Education and signed by Amy Dorsch, Maxine Handelman, Wendy Light and Susan Wyner of the USCJ.



Rabbi Berger and friends,



We apologize for the delayed response to Dr. Richard Solomon’s publication, however wish to applaud and strongly support his work on Jewish Integrated Experiential Education. We hope that it will be widely read and incorporated into… Continue

Of all the recent retrospectives of the late Steve Jobs, the one that has had the most impact on me contained the observation that he “hated traditional market research”. It was a comment made by one of the guests (advertising consultant, Cindy Gallup) on the public radio show “The Take Away” on Friday, October 7. You could hear the entire recording here. Mr. Jobs believed that successful marketing and production must be customer centered, but that consumers don’t really know what they want.…

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(also posted at http://yu20.org/profiles/blogs/vus-iz-web-2-0)







Labor Day weekend – the last bit of summer vacation before the school year gets going. My kids are grown now. I don’t pick out their first day of school outfits and I don’t… Continue

Chevre,

If you wish to obtain a PDF copy of the original article, click onto this link: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/93840770/Reinventing-Jewish-Formal-and-Informal-Learning--through-Jewish-Integrated-Experiential-Education

Enjoy,

Richard

I had a conversation with a Rabbi recently. He was upset because a cantorial colleague of his had decided to strike out on her own, performing “destination B’nai Mitzvah”, divorcing herself from synagogue life, and setting up private Hebrew schools in community club-houses. He fretted that this is antithetical to the idea of community and affiliation. He felt that to be a true part of the Jewish community, one needed to belong to a synagogue. He continued, pointing out that he knows that times… Continue

Pesach is a time for questions.

 

So, in the spirit of the season, I would like to ask you some.  I’ll start with one: How do Jewish educators learn to use 21st century educational technology in the Jewish classroom?  This will lead to a few more.  What follows is a survey with 15 questions (an auspicious number for Pesach). The goal of this short (5-8 minutes) questionnaire is to find some answers to the question of how and…

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I am a Jewish Education technology and art resources teacher/facilitator for a conservative Jewish religious and Sunday school. You can find me at the school's computer and technology lab every Wed and Sun, yet like many of you, spending a lot of my own  time in preparing school work and blogging.

 For the last three years I had tried to help update our program and curriculum to a 21st level and provide teachers with new educational resources to enhance their teaching.



As you…

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

-R. Buckminster Fuller…

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