We’ve assembled a great collection of High Holiday videos here at MediaMidrash (with a couple of lesson plans to boot!). Check out what’s up for Rosh Hashannah here. Then mosey over to our Yom Kippur section here.
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Shannah Tova u’Mitukah!
Dylan+Rosh Hashanah+Hebrew=Nice Video!
Our video submission for the Jewish Futures Competition. Thanks to all those who contributed. Please keep commenting on our vision and the video!
The geniuses behind the Firefox browser have put together quite an impressive online, open-source, collaborative university with P2PU (check it out here). One of the best resources on the site (other than the courses themselves), is their handbook for how to teach an online call. You can read it here.
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The handbook reminds would be e-instructors of the importance of real social interaction writing:
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“SOCIAL ACTIVITIES & REGULAR MEETINGS
Social activities are the glue of P2PU courses. Without them, peer learning becomes more difficult. Social activites should be held regularly and can be synchronous (video and chat in real time) or asynchronous (forums, commenting, peer assessment).
In order to create community and cohesion among participants, we suggest holding a synchronous meeting on the first day of courses. Essential topics to cover on the first day are introductions, everyone’s expectations for the course, and agreeing upon the criteria for peer assessment”
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Love it!
Thanks to @aharonium for bringing this to our attention!
Recently, BJENY-SAJES together with JESNA’s Lippman Kanfer Institute announced a competition that provided the opportunity for anyone to share their ideas about how to shape the Jewish educational landscape of the 21st century. Asking individuals to submit a four minute video about their vision for the future of Jewish learning, they promised that the creators of the winning videos would be brought to New Orleans with all expenses paid to speak at the Jewish Futures Conference Naturally we had to apply. We thought in addition to simply preparing our video, we wanted to model some of the ideas and values we believe are essential for the future of Jewish Education: With this in mind and in the name of openness, collaboration and community, we’d love your help to fine tune our ideas. Follow this link to an outline of the main ideas behind our video. Comment on what you like, what you don’t like, what we’ve missed and what could use some work. We welcome your comments on our statement, and on the video once we get it posted.
The folks over at the Stanford University Hebrew Department have done a great job putting together multimedia video clips to help students learn everyday, practical Hebrew from native speaks. The videos ranging from how to order falafel (the most important of skills), to dialogues set in such locations as the doctor’s office are accompanied by drills and worksheets, a huge plus for any teacher of Modern Hebrew!
Check out the videos and resources here.
Enjoy!
As a postscript to our piece on Arabs, Racism and Humor on Israeli Television, it looks like the second season of Arab Labor will be hitting the Saturday night programing line up of Channel Two in the near future. In honor of the occasion Israeli beat-smiths AXUM have released the below song and video.
Two interesting features of the second season: 1) While in the first season the main character Amjad, lived in an Arab-Israeli village, in the second season he and his family will be living in a Jewish-Israeli neighborhood. 2) While in the first season the theme music was provided by the Arab-Israeli group DAM, it appears that AXUM will be featured in the second. These moves might be to make the series (which critics loved but Israeli audiences were luke-warm to) more palatable and popular to an Israeli audience.
Regardless, it looks like the second season of Arab Labor will be just as funny and poignant as the first (if not more so), and the song AXUM wrote for the occasion is really quite good.
Enjoy!
Looking for cutting edge research, innovation and resources in education? Check this new amazing site from the folks over at FutureLab. Think of it as an aggregation of everything you want to read.
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In the past week YIVO has put their Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe online. In addition to fabulous articles on the arts, culture, religion and daily life of Eastern European Jewry, the Encyclopedia has an incredible treasure trove of audio, video, and photographic material.
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The good folk at YIVO have also put up two lesson plans, replete with power point presentations and handouts, one on the An-Ski Expedition of the early 20th Century which sought to record and preserve Yiddish culture, and a second taking students through life as a teenager in 1930s Poland. While these lesson plans are a little lack luster in their presentation, opting for a rather frontal ppt based pedagogy, they do provide excellent bases for classes, and models of how to utilize multimedia content to enhance learning experiences.
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We here at MediaMidrash would love to get our hands on YIVO’s video material to enter it into our library, but alas, at this point we are only able to catalog videos that are hosted on YouTube. YIVO, let us know if you plan to put up material on YouTube!
