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=TC Technology -- JESP= A work in progress -- adding sites and will move things around, etc., etc. October, 2011

5/13 - a short article on why use technology - []

July, 2013 - web tools recommended by ALA - [|http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards-guidelines/best-websites/2013#media]

May, 2013 - icebreakers using technology - []

Using the various web tools - []

“It is not about the technology...it is about the learning. It is about the learner.”

a good blog about technology - []


 * 1) KadimaOhio Gloria Becker started her session by asking the purpose of Jewish Education. Thoughts?

5/2013 - 43 free tools - []

Apple Apps - 12/2012 []

making technology sustainable - 1/13 []

Integrating tech into classroom ~ []

@BrianMull asks: How do students create content for real purpose? Collaborating? Building knowledge? The G-d Project [] Super Book of Web Tools for Educators - 83 pages []



100 Tech Tools for Teachers and Students (EdTech) ~ [|http://dailytekk.com/2012/04/09/edtech-100-tech-tools-for-teachers-and-students/#games]

twitter and your school (district) - why you should have it ~ []

an internet catalog []

101 sites - [] [|FreeTech4Teachers]

legal to use media ~ []

using games - []

PenPals ePals Global Community

to do research - []

Visual Bloom's taxonomy http://visualblooms.wikispaces.com/

"best sites" []

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Best tools of 2011 [|http://edudemic.com/2011/11/best-web-tools]

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=BJE Staff Blog= []

I Have a Confession to Make...__
__ Permanent link All Posts **By Phil Liff-Grieff** I love technology. I get excited thinking about all the wonderful things educators can do to further Jewish learning through the use of iPads and smart phones and laptops and interactive whiteboards and document cameras. But every now and then, I take a step back and consider what we should really be focused on. So often, this happens to me when I am surrounded by all the toys and gadgets that make up the world of educational technology today.Every summer, 13,000 educators gather at the ISTE conference, a conference devoted to technology in education. They choose from hundreds of workshops, spend time in an exhibition hall filled with 500 vendors selling the latest tools and gadgets that bring technology into the classroom. Every keynote address at ISTE is blogged and tweeted by hundreds of audience members in real time for the many thousands of teachers and principals who are not able to be present. And, yes, educators from Jewish schools are to be found in those halls, learning and sharing and growing as we think about how important technology is to the way we must educate our children in the coming weeks, months and years.As I sit in those workshops and tweet those keynotes every year, there is one thread that runs through the conversation. A simple message is repeated over and over and over again- “It is not about the technology...it is about the learning. It is about the learner.” Educators who carry iPads and iPhones with them at all times and who live their lives connected to the internet share this basic message; the gadgets and the internet connectivity and the way our lives have been transformed by these things are not what we are focused on- we are focused on the learner and their learning.Don’t get me wrong; our learners and their families have been transformed by technology. The way they communicate, acquire information, build community, share and collaborate and relate to the world they live in has been changed forever in our new digital age. We cannot go about our business as if this is not the case. We must realize that so much today is mediated by the Internet and our connectivity.But, I am mindful of the goal, best articulated by Chris Lehmann, the Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. Chris says that, in our schools “technology should be like oxygen- ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible.” Because, having technology in the classroom is not the objective, it is merely a means towards a much more important end. Technology is simply an incredibly powerful tool for helping us to achieve the goal of robust student-centered learning. Technology helps us to empower students to own their learning, to make the learner more of a partner in their own growth and development. Technology allows us to bring the classroom into the life of the learner in a way that is authentic and When Chris Lehmann speaks to an audience of educators, he usually starts by asking those present what they teach. “Math” many call out, or “English”. No, he says to them, you don’t teach math, you teach students. In the same vein, we need to look at the technology in our schools and not ask how many iPads there are or how many interactive whiteboards. The question we need to ask is how is learning enhanced by their presence. Not how many gadgets we can put in the classroom but how are our students better served in their journey towards becoming knowledgeable, Jewish adults living lives of purpose and service.I truly love the gadgets and the latest apps. But, what I love the most is seeing what we can do with them in changing the lives of the children who are entrusted in our care.//Phil Liff-Grieff is Associate Director at BJE: Builders of Jewish Education//

Last Edited by Stacey Barrett at 3/2/2012 11:43 AM

Bill **Ferriter** -- http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/2011/10/teaching-the-igeneration-workshop.html Instead of introducing readers to interesting web-tools, I introduce readers to specific strategies for teaching students to communicate, collaborate, problem solve and manage information. Sure, readers learn about specific web tools that can make communicating, collaborating, problem solving and managing information easier---but the focus of the text is squarely on skills.

=Nuts and Bolts: Social Media for Learning= By [|Jane Bozarth] ~ [|http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/762/nuts-and-bolts-social-media-for-learning#.Toq01pEgz80.twitter] October 4, 2011

Lately in the industry there’s been a lot of tangling of terms, most of them including the word “social”: social media, social learning , social technologies, social platforms, social socials... We’ve attempted to address this at length in the new eLearning Guild Report, //Social Media for Learning//, released last week and available [|here].

**Social //Learning// vs. Social Media //for// Learning**
It’s important to distinguish between social //learning// and social media //for// learning. Social //learning// is not new: hot stoves and the like notwithstanding (learning from sad experience and failure), it’s how we’ve always learned, all the time. It’s how we learn our native language, how we learn to get along in school, how we learn about, and function in, the culture of a new workplace. We watch other people, we talk with other people, we read instructions other people have written, and we ask each other things like, “Hey Joe! Can you please show me how to run this spreadsheet?” New social //media// tools now enable social learning to happen on a much larger scale. But this doesn’t mean that social learning is something we suddenly need to “do,” as if it hadn’t existed before or that we need to attempt to “implement.” Rather, those involved in eLearning should work to ensure our designs home in on and support areas where social learning is already naturally occurring in the learner’s workflow and leverage new tools where that makes sense. (Workflow questions: Where and when are workers asking for help from one another? Where do they need performance support?) In the industry right now – as we see in the //Social Media for Learning// report research data – there is considerable use of social media tools in instruction delivery efforts. But there’s less evidence that people are using the tools to support social learning. Often, people use social media tools as another means of delivering content. For example: By contrast, using social media to support and extend social learning invites learners to contribute, engage, and participate with one another online. For instance, when: So just using the online tools to deliver content doesn’t support “social learning;” that happens when you use the tools to invite interaction from and between the learners. It’s about social, not media, and it’s about shared learning, not just pushing content.
 * Publishing the training department newsletter on a blog
 * uto-scheduling tweets about class assignments from a Twitter account that does not otherwise engage with the learners or ask them to engage with each other
 * Hosting a software application development course, in tutorial format, on a wiki
 * Setting up a wiki for those in a new-hire induction program to work together to edit a FAQs page for use by the next group coming to the program
 * Having managers-in-training use a microblogging tool for a leadership book-club discussion
 * Helping to support and participating in a community of the organization’s customer service reps, to give them a place to share war stories and strategies for dealing with challenges

**More partnership, less delivery**
While we are seeing some use of social media for learning to replicate traditional approaches to instruction, it’s clear from the survey data that those involved in learning endeavors are missing opportunities for informal learning and performance support. These things are happening anyway, and in some cases other work areas are supporting them. The marketing department offers discussion forums for new product rollouts. The communications office handles interpretation of policy and new procedures. Where is the training department in this picture? Learning practitioners are well advised to start paying more attention to learning as it really happens – all day, as we interact with one another, as we go about the business of executing our job tasks or schoolwork. Where do workers struggle? How much time do they spend looking for something, or someone? Where is mentoring happening? How about job shadowing? Are the organization’s workers turning for help from LinkedIn groups or Facebook communities? Where can we as learning professionals become part of the daily workflow rather than a separate entity offering formal scheduled events? How can we be partners in shared learning, rather than an outside entity only delivering it?

=50 Social Media Stats To Blow Your Mind= Posted August 6, 2011 by **[|Jay Dunn]** On her social media and PR blog, Commentz, Sarah Evans and her staff compile a lot of surprising stats, and sometimes they roll up to statements we do not expect. She recently provided Ad Age a curated list of fascinating facts. Here are the first 25 with the link to the Ad Age post for the rest. 1. "Social media accounts for one out of every six minutes spent online in US." (Journalism.co.uk) 2. "Seventy-seven percent report that they use social media to share their love of a show; 65% use it as a platform to help save their favorite shows; and 35% use it to try to introduce new shows to their friends." (TVGuide.com study via TVNewsCheck.com)3. "Facebook users are overall more trusting than non-internet others. Pew reported, 43% of survey participants were more likely than other internet users to feel that most people can be trusted." (Pew Internet via Social Media Club)4. "22% of all grandparents in the UK are using social networks, according to Mashable. The study, which collected results from 1,341 grandparents from the UK, showed that 71% of grandparents who use a social network use Facebook, 34% are on Twitter and 9% use the business social network LinkedIn." (Mashable via Social Media Today)5. "In the first four months after its January 2010 launch in Russia, Facebook use grew by 376%, and today more than 4.5 million people use the site regularly." (comscore.com via Mashable)6. "The 'Weinergate' scandal caused a significant drop in tweeting politicians. According to VentureBeat, after the scandal 'the number of tweets by Republican members of Congress dropped by 27 percent, while those of Democrats dropped by 29 percent.'" (VentureBeat via Marketing Pilgrim)7. Instagram "currently has a user base of 4.25 million in only seven months, with ten photos being posted a second." (prsarahevans.com via TechCrunch)8. "It only takes 20 people to bring an online community to a significant level of activity and connectivity." (Ning via TheNextWeb)9. "Nearly twice as many men (63%) as women (37%) use LinkedIn." (Pew Internet via prsarahevans.com)10. "In the last election Google was the largest player -- the Obama campaign directed 45% of its online campaign dollars to the search site." (Advertising Age) 11. "59% of adult Facebook users had "liked" a brand as of April, up from 47% the previous September. Uptake among the oldest users appears to have been a major factor in this rise." (eMarketer)12. "In 2010, 29.3 million readers read some 270 million pages of Post journalism each month, a record for The Washington Post. Of that, 28.1 million did so online and, while [Washington Post] brought in 4.2 million new readers on average each month compared to the previous year, [they] also lost some 35,000 print subscribers in 2010 alone." (Forbes) 13. "25% of hotels [are] still ignoring social media." (TravelClick via Econsultancy)14. "Businesses are paying Twitter $120,000 to sponsor a promoted trending topic for a day. [...] That's up from $25,000 to $30,000 when the feature was launched in April 2010." (via Poynter)15. "AOL's newsroom is now bigger than The New York Times'." (Business Insider)16. "Mobile is one of the fastest-growing platforms in the world. With 40% of U.S. mobile subscribers regularly browsing the internet on their phone and a projected 12.5% of all e-commerce transactions going mobile by the end of the year, it's a channel that you need to be aware of. According to Google, mobile web traffic will surpass PC traffic by 2013." (60 Second Marketer)17. "Twitter is 6-7 times smaller than Facebook." (via Social Media Today)18. "There are now 54 million active Mac users around the world." (AllThingsD)19. "130 million books have been downloaded from iBooks." (AllThingsD)20. "Users say they're more likely to buy if a business answers their questions on Twitter." (NYTimes.com)21. "Nearly half (42%) indicated that if they've already allocated a portion of their marketing spend to social media, they would increase this spend over the course of the year. Only 8% of those surveyed indicated that they would decrease social media spend." (The Next Web)22. "13% of online adults use the status update service Twitter, which represents a significant increase from the 8% of online adults who identified themselves as Twitter users in November 2010. 95% of Twitter users own a mobile phone, and half of these users access the service on their handheld device." (Pew Internet)23. "According to HubSpot, small businesses plan to spend 19 percent of budgets on social media vs. only 6 percent in larger businesses. A similar gap is shown for blogging with 10 percent of budgets for small business vs. just 3 percent for large." (Hubspot via ClickZ)24. "33 percent of its worldwide traffic is inside the United States." (Problogger)25. "Facebook has three times as many accounts as Twitter, and 20 percent of Twitter's users produce at least 80 percent of the site's content." (Problogger) []
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As educators, why use social networking - http://secondarysolutionsblog.com/2011/12/8-reasons-teachers-should-be-doing-more-social-networking-edchat-engchat-midleved/