March 12 | Jewish Portal of Teacher Education

Mar. 12, 2013

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MOFET JTEC Portal Newsletter

Dear Subscriber,

We are delighted to send you the latest issue of The MOFET JTEC Portal resource listing.

The current bulletin contains information about teacher education and in-service professional development opportunities, resources for using technology in Jewish education, as well as a number of research papers which evaluate a number of different Jewish education programs.

We also provide information about a number of MOFET Institute activities now available:

An online seminar on digital textbooks to be held tomorrow, two Spanish language educational leadership seminars in Israel, and the Sixth International MOFET Conference on Teacher Education. (See below for information.)

We also heartily welcome the participants in MOFET Teach 2013 – A Study Tour & Conference on Technological Systems in Education who are presently with us learning about the various uses of technology in the Israeli educational system and invite you to join us in future Israel seminars and tours.

We take this opportunity of Rosh Chodesh Nissan to wish you a wonderful Passover Holiday of true physical & spiritual redemption, as our ancestors who were redeemed in this month ages ago.

Reuven Werber

The MOFET JTEC Portal Team

March 12, 2013

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Please note: a complete list of recent additions to the portal follows the Featured Items.

March 2013

Featured Items

Digital Text Books – An Online MOFET Seminar (in Hebrew)

The MOFET Institute in cooperation with the Israeli Ministry of Education invites teachers, administrators and the general public to an online seminar in Hebrew about digital text books in the education system in Israel and abroad. The online presentations and discussions will be held via the Elluminate platform on Thursday March 14, 2013 from 10:00 to 15:00. Participation is through an internet connected computer, headset and microphone.

G-dcast Entertainment Launches 'Leviticus!' Apple Mobile Game

A new branch of G-dcast, G-dcast Entertainment, has just released a new 'edutainment' game for Apple Mobile devices – 'Leviticus!'. While playing the fast-moving brightly illustrated game, the players learn much of the intricate Biblical Jewish law system for offering sacrifices in the Temple. 'Leviticus!' was made with young adults in mind and the plan is to market the new game to college-age students through Hillel and Moishe Houses.

MOFET JTEC 2013 Spanish Language Israel Educational Leadership Seminar

MOFET JTEC will again be conducting a special leadership seminar in Israel for leaders of Jewish school boards and education committees in the Spanish speaking world. The ten day program on April 29 - May 9, 2013, will include study visits, workshops and conferences which will broaden the knowledge and experience of those working in the field thus aiding them in fulfilling the daily functions of managers in their respective schools and communities.

Registration Opens for the Ninth MOFET JTEC Seminar in Israel for Spanish Speaking Diaspora Community Leaders – Summer, 2013

MOFET JTEC will be conducting its ninth special leadership seminar in Israel for leaders of Jewish institutions in Spanish speaking-countries. The 15-day program on June 4-19, 2013, will include study visits, workshops and conferences which will broaden the knowledge and experience of those working in Jewish education, and community leadership, thus empowering them in fulfilling their daily functions in their respective Jewish institutions.

Jewish Education Institutions Reorganize in the Face of Ongoing Financial Crisis

July Wiener writes about how financial constraints and declining affiliation rates are bringing virtually every national Jewish institution, and many local ones, to restructure, redefine its mission, merge or even close. In the latest sign of the times, this week the board of the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) — which has downsized dramatically in the past four years — announced it is considering merging with the Jewish Education Project, a New York organization that is itself the product of a 2010 merger.

The MOFET Sixth International Conference on Teacher Education: “Changing Reality Through Education”

Once every few years, since 1993, the teacher education system in Israel holds an international conference on teacher education. The Sixth International Conference, titled “Changing Reality through Education”, will be held at David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem, in cooperation with The MOFET Institute in Tel Aviv on July 2-4, 2013. It will deal with various topics on the public and social agenda.

March 2013

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