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.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Demonstration of how Flowchart.com can be utilized in Judaic instruction and the mentoring/training of pre-service and in-service Judaic educators

 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 Flowchart.com . 

 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 Flowchart.com 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: Flowchart.com can be used in both the physical and virtual classroom.

What is Flowchart.com?   

Flowchart.com is a web-based tool for creating flow chart graphic organizers.       

Where is Flowchart.com located on the web?   

http://flowchart.com/     

Click here and observe how Flowchart.com can be utilized for both Judaic instruction and the mentoring/training of pre-service and in-service Judaic educators.

Note: to see this flowchart you may have to obtain a flowchart account by clicking on to this url, http://flowchart.com/     .

On the next post we will introduce a new topic, web-based tools for time lining.