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 Pathbrite.com, an e-portfolio web tool,
can be used to promote Judaic instruction and to mentor/train Jewish
educators.
But what
is an e-portfolio?
What is an E-portfolio?
An e-portfolio or electronic portfolio is a
collection of selected digitized artifacts (i.e. pictures, documents, articles,
honors, work experience, files, etc.) that describe your interests, hobbies,
personal and professional goals. Instead of curating these artifacts and
placing them in a physical collection (e.g. album, or scrapbook) they can be
located online. Judaic Studies students would want to create their own
e-portfolios for the following reasons:
- To document, demonstrate and measure knowledge acquisition, and skills
- To collect artifacts of learning over a period of time (i.e. elementary school, high school, etc.)
- To provide a job interviewer with a digital portfolio of work experience, knowledge and skills
- To celebrate the wealth of experience, honors, knowledge and skills your have accumulated
- To assess the strengths and limitations of your experiences, knowledge and skills
For more
information on e-portfolios click onto this link: http://electronicportfolios.org/
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 Pathbrite.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: Pathbrite.com can
be used in a face to face and virtual classroom.
Where is Pathbrite.com located on the
internet?
How Pathbrite.com, an
e-portfolio web tool, can be used to promote Judaic instruction and to
mentor/train Jewish educators
Click
here to see an example of how Pathbrite.com can be used to promote Judaic
instruction and to train/mentor pre-service and in-service Jewish educators.
On the next blog post we will begin our discussion of another
e-portfolio web tool, Tackk.com .
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