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ShareThis week's assignment gives you the opportunity to try out the features discussed in the lesson and to reflect on how you would use them in a teaching setting.
Steps for completing the assignment:
- Click "Save".
- Follow the directions and write your answers in a comment below each answer.
- Use the checklist/rubric at the bottom of the sheet to make sure that you have completed all of the elements of the assignment.
1) Explore the four visualizations demonstrated in the lesson. Choose one to study in depth and answer the following questions in a comment box below:
- Which visualization did you choose?
- How might you use the visualization in your educational environment?
The Talmud-Tanakh link thing is still one of my favorites, but I wanted to see the words sunburst because I wanted to see who was more prolific, the Shach or the Taz. (It's the shach. Shaching, I know.)
(Also there's that person down at the end of the page who did some stuff visualizing Sefaria for her dissertation :D - does that count as a learning environment?)
These days, I think I'm most likely to use it to help students jump back out and think about commentaries versus the texts they comment on.
2) Experimenting with the highlight mode.
- Make a source sheet with a text which students will highlight. The text can be in Hebrew or English or bilingual.
- Create tags.
- Highlight the text.
- Copy the URL of the highlighted sheet in a comment box below.
https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/189579
I only marked up part of the sheet.
3) Reflecting on the highlighting mode.
- How might you use the highlight feature in an educational setting?
This feels like an extremely helpful way to parse a gemara or, actually, to break up different opinions and citations in the Beit Yosef - see ONLY the times when he quotes the Rambam, for example.
4) Using the Tanakh dictionary.
- Choose any verse in Tanakh.
- Double click on a word that you would like to look up in the dictionary.
- Copy the definition and paste it in a comment box below.
From Bereishit 4:7
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- to stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out
- (Qal) to lie down, lie
- (Hiphil) to cause to lie down
- laying (stones)
- to stretch oneself out, lie down, lie stretched out
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Checklist/Rubric
| Element |
Complete Answer 2 pts |
Partial Answer 1 pt |
No Answer 0 pts |
| Visualize question | |||
| Create tags | |||
| Highlight text | |||
| Highlight reflection | |||
| Dictionary definition |
Total /10
