TEACHING TANACH WITH ONLINE MEDIA

By Rabbi Tzvi PittinskyTzvi.Pittinsky@frisch.org

Examples of Online Media in Tanach

Manipulating Text Projecting maps and illustrating

archeology Exciting multi-media content Student projects

Suggested websites

Online text: http://mechon-mamre.org http://responsa.co.il http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/olam_hatanah

/index.asp

http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/63255/jewish/The-Bible-with-Rashi.htm

Maps: http://searchingthescriptures.net/main_p

ages/free_bible_land_maps.htm http://www.openbible.info/geo/

Suggested websites (continued) Exciting multimedia content

http://tanach.org/ http://www.legacyheritage.org/SJED/

Ezra Chapter 1 Ezra Chapter 2 Ezra Chapter 3 Ezra Chapter 4 Missing Years of Jewish History Ezra Chapters 7-8

http://www.aish.com/jl/h/ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ http://prezi.com/g4j5fazcqhap/

Audio http://www.yutorah.org/ http://www.ouradio.org/nach

Pictures http://www.templeinstitute.org/gallery.htm http://www.creationism.org/images/DoreBibleIllus/index.htm

Example of Student Project

Webquest Template from: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/all.htm

Monarchy on Trial-Part II

Monarchy on Trial- Part III

Teaching Tanach with Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Defined…

The second generation of the World Wide Web, especially the movement away from static webpages to dynamic and shareable content and social networking. (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Web_2.0)

Wikis in the Classroom

AdvantagesEasy to Use- WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get

Text Editor) with little codeEncourage Collaboration- Different users can work on the

same page simultaneously Supports asynchronous online discussion forum on every

page.Versatile and customizable- Can post anything including

files, pictures, and video.Safety- Every version of every page is saved.Security- Can moderate all comments and set

permissions on who can read, post, and edit pages. Disadvantages

Discussions can only be moderated after posting.

Wikis for Education

The Frisch School Wiki- http://wiki.frisch.org Password protected.

http://students4israel.wikispaces.com/

http://frischgoesgreen.wikispaces.com/

http://11xnach.wikispaces.com/ http://shiriyah.wikispaces.com/ http://njyeshivahighschools.wikispac

es.com/

Twitter: Micro-blogging tool for posting status updates in 140 characters or less

Resources:• The Twitter Experiment- UT D

allas • Twenty Seven Interesting Way

s to Use Twitter in the Classroom by Tom Barrett

• Twitter Wiki by Sue Waters• http://delicious.com/Tzvi.Pittin

sky/twitter

Who to follow:• http://twitter.com/tzvipittinsky• TheKotel• FoundationStone• GrammarGirl• reuw• jlearn20• tombarrett• jameshollis• russeltarr• rmbyrne