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 Cloud Convert, a file
conversion web tool, can be used to promote Judaic instruction and to
mentor/train Jewish educators.
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 Cloud Convert 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: Cloud Convert can be used in a face to face and virtual classroom.
What is Cloud Convert?
Cloud Convert is a file conversion web tool.
Where is Cloud Convert located on the internet?
Why would
a Judaic Studies student or teacher want to change one file format to another?
- Some file formats are so large in size (e.g. doc files) that they cannot be easily transmitted by email.
- Some file formats (e.g. doc files) take longer to download.
- Some file formats are incompatible with the software on a computer and thus the file cannot be shared.
- More users have access to conventional file formats like JPEG (an image file format), PDF (a document file format), MP3 (an audio file format) and MP4 files (a movie file format).
How the file conversion web tool, Cloud Convert, can be used to promote Judaic
instruction and to mentor/train Jewish educators
Click here and see how
Cloud Convert can be used to promote Judaic instruction and to train or mentor
pre-service and in-service Jewish educators.
On the next post we will discuss another file conversion tool, Docspal.
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