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 how the web camera recording application, Web of Stories, can be used to
promote Judaic instruction and to mentor/train Jewish educators.
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 Web of Stories 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: Web of Stories can be used in a face to face and virtual classroom.
What is Web of Stories?
Web of Stories is a web
camera recording application.
Where is Web of Stories located on the internet?
How the web camera
recording tool, Web of Stories, can be used to promote Judaic instruction and
to mentor/train Jewish educators
Click on the links below and find resources showing how Web of Stories
can be used to promote Judaic instruction and to train or mentor pre-service
and in-service Jewish educators:
http://www.webofstories.com/play/oliver.sacks/8
http://www.webofstories.com/play/marvin.minsky/8
http://www.webofstories.com/play/alice.herz-sommer/11
http://www.webofstories.com/play/norman.routledge/47
http://www.webofstories.com/play/ken.adam/1
http://www.webofstories.com/play/ken.adam/2
http://youtu.be/1e77UlAJN_A
On the next post we will begin our discussion of additional cartoon or
comic strip web tools, the first of which is Witty Comics.
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