Personal Reflection of an Online Teacher

Personal Reflection of an Online Teacher

Shaindy Zudick has taught Tanach and Jewish History for over twenty years, and served as Associate Principal of Limudei Kodesh in the Frisch School. She currently lives in Modiin, where she teaches Tanach to adults and at Machon Maayan, as well as online classes in...

Personal Reflection of an Online Teacher

Gaming our Way to the 21st Century

Reuven Margrett teaches at the Frankel Jewish Academy (Detroit, MI), where he coordinates the minyan program and has directed the technology professional development program. Currently he is leading a team developing technologies involving gaming to help teach...

Personal Reflection of an Online Teacher

Interview with Susan Yammer

Susan Yammer is a member of the course development team and teacher for JOLTT, now the Lookstein Virtual Jewish Academy. She is also a pedagogic coach for graduate education students at the Pardes Educators Program and teaches on Young Judaea Year Course. Before...

Personal Reflection of an Online Teacher

A Tunisian Skills-Based Program

Levi Cooper teaches at the Pardes Instititute of Jewish Studies and is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah. He is a post-doctoral fellow in Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law. Rabbi Dr. Cooper is a Contributing Editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. The notion of focusing on...

Personal Reflection of an Online Teacher

21st century Jewish day schools

Dr. Jon Mitzmacher is the Head of Galinsky Academy [which includes the DuBow Preschool, the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School (a K-8 Schechter), the Bernard and Alice Selevan Religious School, and Makom Hebrew High] Jacksonville, FL, and part of the Jacksonville Jewish...

Personal Reflection of an Online Teacher

Letter from the Editor

Technological advances have given us unparalleled control over our environment and have helped us conquer space. The world is a global village; we can physically travel to places unthinkable previously and digital communication enables instantaneous communication...

Personal Reflection of an Online Teacher

Programming with Mishnah

Claudia Marbach teaches Toshba in the JCDS (Boston) Middle School. Claudia Marbach discusses using technology in the context of her Mishnah class. JCDS Boston is a pluralistic K-8 school in suburban Boston. My overall teaching goals in this school are to expose the...

Personal Reflection of an Online Teacher

It’s All About Asking the Right Questions

Gary Hartstein is Director of DigitalJLearning Network, an initiative of The Jewish Education Project with funding from the AVI CHAI Foundation. Gary Hartstein explores what technology can contribute to education by looking first at learning and educational needs....

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