Richard D. Solomon's Blog on Mentoring Jewish Students and Teachers

Our hope is that this blog will become a forum in which people can exchange ideas on how to recruit, develop and retain exceptional Jewish educators through mentoring and e-mentoring students, teaching candidates, and teachers in our day and supplemental schools. The present focus of this blog is to empower Jewish teachers, administrators, teacher trainers, consultants, and staff developers to integrate web technology (i.e. web tools and apps) into their teaching and teacher training.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

How Mind42 can be used to promote learning and teacher professional development

When mentoring our pre-service and in-service teachers we need to describe and model both research-based and clinically tested best practices, and demonstrate how these best practices can be applied in the real (i.e. physical) and virtual (i.e. online) classroom for both teaching and teacher training. The combination of face to face instruction in a physical setting and online learning is called blended learning. In this section of the blog we will describe how the internet can serve as a supplemental resource for instruction and the mentoring of pre-service and in-service Jewish educators. In this post we will continue our discussion on how students in a Judaic Studies blended learning classroom can use Mind42 to brainstorm and mind map ideas.

Assumption: The teacher or mentor teacher has a interactive white board (i.e. SMART Board, Promethean, etc.), a Tablet PC (also called a Slate or Blade), a computer presenter or computer with internet access attached to an LCD projector in the classroom. It would be ideal if students or mentees had access to their own laptop computers or Ipads as well.

Note: Although Mind42 can be applied in the Judaic Studies blended learning classroom, it can be also be used for training pre-service and in-service Jewish educators for professional or staff development. It is our hope that Jewish educators around the globe will form an online community of practice, a CoP, a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession, to enhance the delivery of instruction and training of Jewish educators. For example, here is a CoP you might want to join.

Note: Mind42 can also be used in a face to face classroom.

What is Mind42?

Mind42 is a web-based brainstorming or mind mapping tool that empowers users to generate, diagram and link ideas.

Where is Mind42 located on the web?

http://www.mind42.com/

How Mind42 can be used to promote learning and teacher professional development

Click on the links below to see how Mind42 can be used to enhance learning:

http://stmarycommunityschool.wikispaces.com/Mind42+Tutorial+Page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2guNNPMG0h0

http://classroomapplications.com/mind-42-graphic-organizer

http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu/index.php?q=node/4536

http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/R6tS7f2NhrAD/NCTIES-2011#6

http://worldofmedia2007-2008.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/56728420/Math-Literacy-and-Technology

http://mind42.com/pub/mindmap?mid=41fbffdf-a13d-4cdf-affc-7f62fbb5d080