Making Jewish Connectedness Happen

Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation

Rabbi Arnold D. Samlanwww.JewishConnectivity.com

@JewishConnectiv

Opinion: The primary goal of Jewish learning today is to reawaken the Jewish habit of mind of building connections◦ between Jew and Jew◦ between Jew and non-Jewish family members◦ between Jew and non-Jewish friends and neighbors, sharing in

Jewish experiences◦ between bits (and bytes) of Jewish knowledge and wisdom◦ between bits (and bytes) of Jewish knowledge and wisdom and

the knowledge and wisdom of our friends and neighbors and their cultural and spiritual heritages

◦ Between Jew & Jew and between Jew and non-Jewish family members

The goal of Jewish Education today is not content mastery but connectedness

What do you want to be connected with? What do you want your students to be

connected with? What do you want families to be connected

with?

Questions for YOU

Social Media Revolution Teacher Learning example: @

JewishConnectiv

Why should we use Social Media?

Martin J. Gottleib Day School Blogs Somers school podcasts Podcast from BBYO & Jewish Connectivity MetroWest Jewish Day School Hebrew Rap USY Tefillin Video

Samples of Student Created Media

Blogger (www.blogger.com) – Basic, simple to use site to set up blogs Kidblog (www.kidblog.org) – Basic, simple to use site for children’s and class blogs Edublog (www.edublog.org) – Basic simple to use site for children’s and class blogs Poll Everywhere (www.polleverywhere.com) – Great site to have kids answer

questions or vote in class Animoto (www.animoto.com) – Simple site to create short videos Twitter (www.twitter.com) – Great for short conversations, teacher learning,

following smart people to see what they’re doing. Once you set up the account on the site, use another site, such as TweetDeck or Hootsuite to actually manage it

Google Maps and Google Earth (www.google.com) – How you really want to teach geography

You Tube (www.youtube.com) – Great site to find educational videos and to post your own

Wordle (www.wordle.net) – Make word pictures out of documents, stories, etc. Try it, you’ll be hooked

Skype (www.skype.com) – Great way to bring guests to your class without transportation costs

Podomatic (www.podomatic.com) – Good tool to create and post podcasts …and of course, Facebook (www.facebook.com)

Web 2.0 Starters

How will YOU empower your students to share what they’ve learned using the power of social media?

Learners as Teachers