Join us for an introductory workshop on how to create games and interactive activities using Ji Tap. Ji Tap is a platform holding over 6,000 Jewish educational games and interactive lessons. Ji Tap also comes with a creation tool to build your own games and share them with the world. With a comprehensive learning management system, teachers can see the games their students create, assign games and view and use data for the class as a whole and for each child. Each question a student answers is tracked. Teaching, flipped classrooms, differentiation, and assessments become more engaging. In this workshop we will learn to use the Ji Tap creation tool to take our lessons and turn them into interactive activities. We will talk about gamifying our curriculum and integrating game creation into our weekly routine. This workshop will teach hands-on skills and focus on the pedagogy behind implementing successfully in the classroom for K-8 teachers.

If you’re joining us for both the Introduction to Ji Tap workshop in the morning and the Mercava workshop in the afternoon, contact DigitalJLearning@JewishEdProject.org for a 25% off discount code. Session will take place in the boardroom.

Workshop Schedule

9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Breakfast and Coffee

9:30 a.m.-12:30 a.m. Workshop Session

Presenter Info

Anat Goodman -VP Education at Ji

MA Technologies in Education

Anat has worked for the Israeli Ministry of Education as a National Counsellor for effective implementation of technology into the Israeli Education System. She has also developed and led teacher-training programmes "Teaching in the Web Era" at Beit Berl College where she trained teachers and students on the effective use of technology. In 2007 Anat received the ‘Teacher of the Year Award’ from the Israeli Ministry of Education. During her 5 year Shlichut with her family in the UK, Anat was the academic coordinator of Shtilim -an Ivrit school and in January 2015 joined the Jewish Interactive team. Her first academic article “Bringing Technology into the Classroom One Iteration at a Time” was published in February 2016 and presented at the 11th Chais Conference for Innovative Learning.

Carina Rock - West Coast Director and Ji Tap Educator

Carina Rock lives in San Diego where as a Rebbetzin she works hard to build Jewish community. In addition, Carina has a Masters in Jewish Education and a Bachelors in Fine Arts. As an artist, Carina's favorite media are painting, digital art and video. Pioneering projects to make outdoor Jewish educational, interactive learning spaces, Carina is dedicated to progressive and creative education that allows children to learn at their own pace in an engaging and relevant manner. Having experience in informal, environmental and formal Jewish education, her style of teaching and training reflects her wide range of interests and experience. As a part of the JI North American team, Carina is involved with providing support for teachers and schools by working intimately with them to ensure that the Jewish Interactive experience is a success, ultimately creating an exciting learning environment that teaches Design Thinking, Gamification and paves the way to the future of Jewish education.