Links for Learners

GreatWebsitesforKids.org - This website has many students/teacher friendly websites divided in to categories. Explore the many websites with content, games, mind puzzles

FEARLESS FACT-FINDING A list of trustworthy resources to help you learn what's true (and what isn't!) on the web

Google Sheets - list of Shortcuts

Biblical/Jewish History/Current Events

• Site for Jewish history with links to other websites & resources.
  
• Jewish History Resource Center A fabulous index to resources on the web. Currently, 5000 links to websites in 25 categories dealing with Jewish History
• The City of David, history, virtual tour through its history
• History & events at the kotel. Live webcam.
  
• Israel’s antiquities and treasures plus information about ongoing excavations and virtual exhibits.
• Shrine of the Book – Dead Sea Scrolls & Aleppo Codex
• Jewish National Library - National Library of the Jewish people, responsible for collecting the literary treasures of the Jewish people and preserve the continuity of Jewish and Israeli culture. Check out the digitized book repository. Excellent resource to use with Smart Board features.

• Matson Negatives Archive at the Library of Congress. The G. Eric and Edith Matson Negatives are a rich source of historical images of the Middle East—notably Palestine, present day Israel, and the West Bank—from 1898 to 1946.
• Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America website.
• Printing the Talmud:From Bamberg to Schottenstein COJS in conjunction with the Yeshiva University Museum and major donors.
• Aleppo Codex online– the oldest existing manuscript of the complete Hebrew bible written about 930.
• Jewish Theological Seminary Library special treasures.
• Sponsored by תינונס תתומע and טמ '' ח (יכוניח יגולונכט זכרמ)with contributions from major educational institutions. http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/tanach.htm Many Judaic curricular areas sponsored by םילשורי תללכמ and ךוניחה דרשמ in Hebrew.
• Virtual Beit Midrash - Torah on the Web from Yeshivat Har Etzion. All areas of Torah learning.

Maps

• Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs ―Israel’s Story in Maps‖
• The Jewish Virtual Library’s map page
• University of Texas Libraries Middle East Map collection

Encyclopedia

• Jewish Virtual Library, a comprehensive online Jewish encyclopedia

Museums/Virtual Exhibits/Rare Manuscripts & Books

• Printing the Talmud: From Bamberg to Schottenstein COJS in conjunction with the Yeshiva University Museum and major donors.

• Aleppo Codex online– the oldest existing manuscript of the complete Hebrew bible written about 930.
• Jewish Theological Seminary Library special treasures.
• Beit Hatfutsot:The Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
• Yeshiva University Museum website
• http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/judaica/
• The Judaica Collections'strengths include Biblical literature, history of Biblical interpretation, Jewish history, Judaica Americana, Jewish law, and modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature. These holdings cover almost every period and area of Jewish life from the Biblical era to contemporary America.
• They have the Geniza Fragment Project online.
•  Tanach text - on line. Hebrew & English
•  Hebrewbooks.orgwas founded in order to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation.
• Multimedia Tanakh curriculum
• Shared lesson plans There are lessons, docs, pdfs and smart notebooks on this site. However, if you choose a pdf lesson, you can print it to ―smart notebook print capture‖ and get each page of the pdf on a slide in the notebook.

• Hebrew language games similar to colorforms.

Online Media Tools

• Prezi – online presentation tool
• Group conversations around images, documents, and videos
  
•  All types of online and media applications that can be used in education, including picasa, blogs, sites, groups, etc.

Professional Resources - Technology in Education

• YU 2.0 is a community of educators invested in learning, collaborating and integrating technology into education.
• National Education Technology Plan 2017
•  International Society for Technology in Education is a membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving learning and teaching by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education.