Behrman House has Tomorrow’s Digital Resources You Can Use Today

You want easy-to-use digital and web-related resources that will help you engage students and their families, motivate your teachers, and keep you up to date with the latest in Jewish education. Behrman House’s online tools help you do all that—and more. 

Here is our Top-10 list of tech resources you can use right now (with a bonus!) :

1. Learn Hebrew Online-Free!
   

Help parents practice the alef bet and review prayers and blessings with their children by sending them a link to our no hassle, online Click and Read Hebrew or Click and Learn Prayer. Its unique features include fully embedded audio that provides immediate feedback by letter, by word, by line with just a click of the mouse. And it’s FREE.

2. Play Holiday Games Online-Free!
   

Send experiential holiday learning home. A quick email link to www.ElijahRocks.net will provide your 2nd and 3rd grade families with online games and holiday songs, and help them learn the blessings. This inviting web site is a companion to The Jewish Holiday Treasure Trail, our newest holiday book.

3. Send Families Links to Smartphone Apps
   

Families and students across the country were learning the four questions on their iPhones at Passover this year, thanks to iMahNishtanah, a Behrman House app. You can keep them engaged using the technology they love with iShma, also from Behrman House, and available at the Apple Apps store.

4. Give Your Teachers Online Access to Helpful Classroom Tips

“In the Classroom Teaching Tips” provides quick-click access to the most comprehensive repository of teaching tips, case studies, and school management techniques you’ll find on the web or anywhere, ready right now for your teachers to use.  Everything you need to help you manage your school and your classroom:  letters to parents about the uses and benefits of our interactive software, ways to use textbooks creatively, and ready-to-go lesson plans.


5. Exchange Advice Online with Your Colleagues throughout North America

Share lesson plans, tell student—and family!—success stories, let colleagues know which materials work and why, and ask for guidance from others all through the Behrman House Educators’ Forum.   

6. Assess Your Students’ Progress in Hebrew Online

All Behrman House digital Hebrew programs (Shalom Uvrachah, Hineni, Alef Bet Quest, and Kol Yisrael) come with easy-to-use online assessment features. Get immediate feedback online, or have students use the option to print their assessment pages and bring them to class. Just click the blue Assessment button on our homepage. Students can even email their results directly to their teacher’s Inbox.

7. Learn How to Incorporate Digital Hebrew into Your Hebrew Classroom, Online
   

Not sure how to begin a digital Hebrew program in your school? Our online video tutorial and our nine-minute webinar will take you step-by-step into the digital age and show you how to use the Alef Bet Quest primer and the Kol Yisrael prayer program.  Scope and Sequence charts, review sheets, research on best practices for teaching Hebrew reading, and FAQ’s are all available online to help educators and teachers easily use Behrman House’s new Hebrew series.

8. Get the Latest Scoop on Jewish Education, Online
   

Read up on the latest about best practices, educator experiences, new publications, case studies, staff news, and special offers from Behrman House.  And you know you’ll catch a glimpse of many of your colleagues (and perhaps even yourself!) as our roaming Open Lion photographer catches up with all our good friends from across the country.

9. Join us Online with Facebook, Follow us on Twitter
   

You can join the Behrman House page on Facebook where you will find news updates, loads of photos, and free online games. (Did you play the Afikomen game this Passover?) And we tweet and retweet with all the latest (thanks, Jessica!)

10. Discover Connections You Never Considered Before, Online at the BH Blog
    

Who else but Rabbi Mark Levine would link a practical joke about soda to the notion of teachable moments? David Behrman and his colleagues regularly find unusual connections between Jewish education and happenings in the world at large. Join the discussion on the Behrman House blog.

• Bonus: Learn Ways to Enhance Your Teaching with Video Conferencing
  

Use Skype for Hebrew tutoring and other enriching activities. This excellent resource allows teachers and students to visually interact from the convenience of their own homes