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 discuss the
images that teachers and students in a Judaic Studies instructional program can
copy and edit via the website, WPClipart. The images
stored in the WPClipart website contain Creative Commons Licenses. For more
information about the six types of Creative Commons Licenses click onto this
link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Assumption: The teacher or mentor teacher has an 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. Given parental and
school approval, and the development of specific guidelines, smartphones can be
used to enhance instruction as well.
Note: Although the images on the WPClipart website
can be applied in the Judaic Studies blended learning classroom, they 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.
What is WPClipart?
WPClipart is an image
search engine that provides photos that have Creative Commons Licenses; the
photos on the WPClipart website can be copied and edited by Judaic Studies and
secular teachers, students and others.
Where is WPClipart
located on the internet?
Below you will find
sample photos or images related to Jerusalem and Israel; all of the photos on
this website have Creative Commons Licenses:
NOTE: When converting an image always make certain that
you either own the image or have permission to copy it.
On the
next blog post we will begin our discussion of websites that
contain computer avatars, graphic images or files that represent the person
using the computer.
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