Author: misterd

My time at Hillel Yeshiva has come to an end. As of the new school year, I’ll be joining the team at the Yeshivah of Flatbush’s Joel Braverman High School.

I’m moving in order, using this summary at ZDNet as my guide, if you want to follow along. TL;DR: Freeform, Continuity Camera and iCloud Share Photo Libraries are exciting additions to Apple’s mature software platforms.

An introduction to working with Google Admin Manager, a command-line interface to the Google Admin Console

We all know that we can share Google Sheets with people but, at least in my life, those people are often not regular spreadsheet users, so they aren’t comfortable opening a Google Sheet to look for updated data. For example, when we set up online forms (for event registration, lunch signup, etc), the parent volunteers […]

A short piece published in the November, 2012 issue of EdJewtopia, a monthly newsletter on complementary Jewish education published by PELIE, the Partnership for Effective Learning and Innovative Education. It followed up on a presentation I gave at Kadima South Florida, a conference on EdTech in Jewish Education they co-sponsored along with Avi Chai. When I work […]

I just had a remarkable conversation with a remarkable teacher about the remarkable things he and his remarkable students are doing with remarkable tools at a remarkable school. Can I tell you about it? The class is Grade 9 Talmud and the school is, of course, Hillel. The teacher is Hillel’s Rabbinic Head, Chaim Albert, […]