Social Media Series

For Jewish EducatorsIn conjunction with NATE and JEA

Presented by Lisa Colton,

Founder & President Darim Online

Lisa@darimonline.org

434.977.1170

http://slidesha.re/natejea4

Widgets & Gadgets

• Fill your toolbox with tools you can use.• Think about helping students be producers

and active creators of their own meaning.• Explore ways to cross boundaries of time and

space outside of the classroom and class hours.

Widgets & Gadgets

• Voicethread• Glogster• Jeopardy Labs• Prezi• Wordpress Magazines

VOICETHREAD

• Upload video, photos, text, etc for the central presentation

• Users can comment (text, audio and video) on it to create conversation and depth.

VOICETHREAD

• Have students curate and narrate their own voicethread as a presentation.

• Others can ask questions throughout.

• Great for practicing conversational Hebrew!

VOICETHREAD

• Live Gemara!• Post central

text and have each student comment on it and respond to each other.

http://voicethread.com/#q.b1664914.i8784180

GLOGSTER

• Embed content from

many places

• Poster layout

• Click to play audio and

video

• Interactive citations

• Visual storytelling

Edu.glogster.com

Student project:

Family history and Timeline

Teacher project:

Resources & Readings

JEOPARDY LABS

JEOPARDY LABS

• Thanks to Lisa Lavenberg for nominating this!

• Create Jeopardy boards with questions, answers.

• Specify # of teams.• Project on a wall!

PREZI

http://prezi.com/ippflnhcozr3/medieval-jewish-clothing-in-venice/

PREZI

• Dynamic presentations

• Arrange text, images

and video

• Voiceover narration

• Zoom in and out

• Provide flow

Wordpress Student Blogs/Magazines

• Free!

• Gazillion themes to

choose from

• Empower student

authors

• Encourage quality

through professionalism

• Enable students to

teach others!

Wordpress Student Blogs/Magazines

NEXT SESSION

Jewish Educator as Social Media Change Agents:

Your Role in Evolving Culture Congregation Culture

August 9, 2011

1-2pm eastern / 10-11am pacific