Teaching With Online Media

Here is a presentation I created on Teaching with Online Media. I also have listed below all the links featured in this presentation.

You can watch an online webinar using this presentation that I gave on October 14, 2009 for Yeshiva University's Institute for University-School Partnership's Online Continuing Education Program by clicking here: Teaching with Online Media.
Enjoy!!!

Teaching With Online Media

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Online Media Links:

• http://www.wordnik.com/words/web 2.0
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Blogging Resources:

• http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
• http://blog.teqsmart.org/
• http://www.dailywritingtips.com/
• http://hirhurim.blogspot.com/
• http://bekiutnach.blogspot.com/
• http://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/
• http://rabbifleischmann.blogspot.com/
• http://techrav.blogspot.com
• http://p2knnj.blogspot.com/ Password Protected
• http://delicious.com/Tzvi.Pittinsky/blogging

Twitter Resources:

• The Twitter Experiment
• Twenty Seven Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom by Tom Barrett
• http://delicious.com/Tzvi.Pittinsky/twitter

People to Follow on Twitter:

• Tzvi Pittinsky
• The Kotel
• Foundation Stone
• Grammar Girl
• Reuven Werber
• JLearn20
• Tom Barrett
• James Hollis
• Russel Tarr
• Read Write Web
• RMByrne

Wikis for Education

• Frisch School Wiki Password Protected
• Students 4 Israel
• Frisch Goes Green
• 11X Nach Project
• Shiriyah 2009
• NJ Yeshiva High Schools

Other Web 2.0 Tools

• Google Docs
• YouTube
• TeacherTube
• WeJew
• Prezi
• Tzvi Pittinsky's Slideshare
• Scribd
• Flickr
• Feedburner
• IGoogle
• Tzvi Pittinsky's Delicious Bookmarks

Monarchy in Israel and Judah

Below you will find streaming MP3 audio of Nach (Bible) classes that I am giving in Congregation AABJD of West Orange on Monarchy in Israel and Judah. We are starting with the King Achav and his confrontations with Eliyahu Hatishbi. Stay tuned for more classes in the future.

Melachim 1 Chapters 16-17 Introducing Achav and Eliyahu - Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky

Melachim 1 Chapter 17 The Education of Eliyahu Hatishbi- Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky -

Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do?

I found the following link from Shalom Berger on Lookjed, an online bulletin board for educators in Yeshiva day schools, to a Harvard lecture series called “Justice” that you might be interested in:

“For educators interested in watching the professor, Michael J. Sandel, "turn his oversize classroom into something resembling an intimate seminar" the entire semester of classes is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=30C13C91CFFEFEA6.”

What I found intriguing about these lectures (I watched most of the first one) is how they are entirely based on “Wiki type” questions about big topics which might be relevant for a discussion of halakhic values in a Judaic Studies class, current events in a history class, or moral issues stemming from a piece of literature in an English class.

Here is a critique of this class from the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574457170924031720.html.

How a Bill Becomes a Law Interactive Flowchart

I saw this interactive flowchart and thought it might be useful for American History especially on the Smart Board.

How a Law Becomes a Bill Interactive Flowchart: http://www.lexisnexis.com/help/CU/The_Legislative_Process/How_a_Bill_Becomes_Law.htm

I found this reading the Free Technology for Teachers Blog. Here is the complete blog posting: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/09/how-bill-becomes-law-interactive.html.

Using Wolfram Alpha for Homework Help

Wolfram Alpha is a search engine that instead of finding the most popular links based on a search algorithm like www.google.com or www.bing.com actually uses the Mathematica program and very powerful processors to do computations to come up with responses to queries. This makes it an ideal for mathematics and science.

Here is a video demonstrating many applications of Wolfram Alpha to education: http://homeworkday.wolframalpha.com/screencast.html.

Here is a link for their homework day webcast: http://homeworkday.wolframalpha.com/

These links might be worth sharing with your students and/or demonstrating in class. You can find Wolfram Alpha's search engine at: http://www.wolframalpha.com/.