Lisa Colton's presentation to the NATE/JEA series (#5 of 6) on classroom widgets and gadgets.

1. Social Media Series For Jewish Educators In conjunction with NATE and JEA Presented by Lisa Colton, Founder & President Darim Online Lisa@darimonline.org 434.977.1170 http://slidesha.re/natejea4

2. Widgets & Gadgets Fill your toolbox with tools you can use. Think about helping students be producers and active creators of their own meaning. Explore ways to cross boundaries of time and space outside of the classroom and class hours.

3. Widgets & Gadgets Voicethread Glogster Jeopardy Labs Prezi Wordpress Magazines

4. VOICETHREAD Upload video, photos, text, etc for the central presentation Users can comment (text, audio and video) on it to create conversation and depth.

5. VOICETHREAD Have students curate and narrate their own voicethread as a presentation. Others can ask questions throughout. Great for practicing conversational Hebrew!

6. VOICETHREAD Live Gemara! Post central text and have each student comment on it and respond to each other. http://voicethread.com/#q.b1664914.i8784180

8. Poster layout

9. Click to play audio and video

10. Interactive citations

11. Visual storytellingEdu.glogster.com

12. Student project: Family history and Timeline Teacher project: Resources & Readings

13. JEOPARDY LABS

14. JEOPARDY LABS Thanks to Lisa Lavenberg for nominating this! Create Jeopardy boards with questions, answers. Specify # of teams. Project on a wall!

15. PREZI http://prezi.com/ippflnhcozr3/medieval-jewish-clothing-in-venice/

17. Arrange text, images and video

18. Voiceover narration

19. Zoom in and out

21. Gazillion themes to choose from

22. Empower student authors

23. Encourage quality through professionalism

25. NEXT SESSION Jewish Educator as Social Media Change Agents: Your Role in Evolving Culture Congregation Culture August 9, 2011 1-2pm eastern/ 10-11am pacific