Reuven Werber's Blog (19)

MOFET JTEC provides some great resources for Jewish Studies Teachers:

• A Jewish Education Content Portal with a rich indexed collection of Jewish Education Resources
  
  
• A recorded webinar on …

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The Third International Online Conference, "Opening Gates in Teacher Education, 2011: Teacher Education in the Age of Globalization," will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 25-26,…

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Last week a project that I have been working on for the last few months went live - The MOFET JTEC Portal - a professional content portal for all those involved in Jewish education in Israel and the Diaspora.

The MOFET JTEC Portal is a user-friendly database which contains abstracts and links to academic articles, online learning resources, conferences, professional development activities, news… Continue

On Wednesday, March 5, 120 educators from all over Europe, the US, Iran and Israel came together in La Coruna, Spain for five days of discussion, collaborative learning and planning at the 22nd Conference of the European Schools Project Association. The theme of the Conference, Bridging Education into Society set the tone of the activities… Continue

What a small world! Sitting here in my hotel room in La Coruna, Spain, listening to a daily news round –up in Hebrew from Israel Radio, waiting for a Skype chat wife my wife after she gets home from work. Had a very full enjoyable day at the Contact Seminar event which preceded the 22nd ESP (European Schools Project Conference) – “Bridging Education into Society”. Nearly 30 educators, principals and edtech experts from Denmark, Spain, Germany, England, Italy, Holland, Georgia, Portugal, Norway,… Continue

It’s been quite a while since I have travelled internationally, so I really didn’t know what to expect on this trip to La Coruna via Madrid for the ESP conference. Being aware of the tightening of security checks and precautions since 9/11 as well as the cutbacks on airline operation expenses, I sort of expected a much less pleasant experience than I had recalled while flying in the past. Well I must say I was pleasantly surprised. The experience at the new international Ben Gurion Terminal at… Continue

Haven't posted in along time. now that I"m on my way to A Coruna, Spain for the 22nd ESP Conference maybe I will take the opportunity to post here. I will be presenting on Friday on the 21st Century School curriculum as done in Neveh Channah HS for Girls in the Etzion Blog, Israel. Boarding in a few minutes so will be satisfied with this mini post for now. Anyone want me to find out anything about edtech in Europe for them? Better yet, any of you… Continue

Last Thursday evening I was at home with my wife in our small kibbutz apartment when my cell phone gave a loud ring. The incoming number was from the Tel Aviv area – not an expected call. The…

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After returning to school from a two month teacher's strike, I decided

that one of the ways to bring about adoption of web2.0 skills in the

school would be to have a weekly computer club. Most clubs at our

school take place on Monday evenings between 20:00-21:30 (the girls

dorm on Monday nights). Not easy to find a committed group of kids to

come every week, especially when running against choir, drama, dance,

etc.

I decided to try anyway. Decided to run a… Continue

Well, even though I am not a real blogger, ( I just scribble a few lines here occasionally), I got tagged by my good friend, Sharon Peters, (enjoy your new job) so I guess I won't break the link. Here are the rules…

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I just heard about a new online learning community – available gratis to secondary and middle schools outside the UK (and for a small fee within).…

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Among my summer vacation activities, (submitting my dissertation proposal to Bar-Ilan University, planning integration of tech environment for next school year, doting over my new granddaughter - Yifat, spending…

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A visit to the blog of my friend, Sharon Greenberg, took me to a demo clip of a new hot Microsoft technology - Photosynth. The Photosynth preview site tells us:

"The Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest - and, we hope, most exciting - way to view photos on a computer. Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an…

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Ok guys, it's finally sunk in. I won't be at NECC this year. I really wanted to get there to meet in person some of those great people I have been working with, learning from and just chatting with. I made some efforts to get there but it just didn't pan out. So I guess the 18,000? of you who will be there will…

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Was I excited to see the post on the Israel Ministry of Education English Instruction Website! It announced the The Literature Module Program for teaching and assessing literature in English in high schools. This new Module, which will be implemented during the next school year, is the first fruit of a new Ministry initiative for reform of the high school matriculation program to encourage teaching and assessing…

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One of the things that I do is help coordinate a global collaborative learning project run by the Israeli Ministry of Education. The project which teams Israeli High School classes with classes abroad will be going into its fifth year next year. This year we teamed 24 classes from 17 Israeli school with classes from 12…

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Around here we keep wondering why it is taking so long for all the teachers out there to begin to utilize technology in their teaching repertoire. Why don't they take advantage of the great teaching and learning opportunities that cutting edge technology makes available to them? Why don't they make the effort to enter the 21^st Century,…

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