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 Tackk.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 Tackk.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: Tackk.com can be
used in a face to face and virtual classroom.
Where is Tackk.com located on the
internet?
How Tackk.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 Tackk.com, an
e-portfolio web tool 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, Portfoliogen.com .
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