“Really, a Kibbutz and what sea do you mean?”  “The Sea of Galilee, you know the one right? Where Jesus hung out around it and walked on it?  I was chatting on Facebook with Efrat and her response left me speechless. “Sure I know it … I am a committed Christian and all my adult life I have wanted to visit Israel and walk on the shores of the Sea of Galilee” was the first response I could think of.  So naturally Efrat responds “Sure we would love you to come on over and we will show you around.”  

 It began to sink in … the Padagogy Wheel was being translated into Hebrew no less on the shores of Galilee. What a cool story I could tell for the rest of my life and this one would even impress the grandchildren.  Ever since the beginning of the First Language Project I wanted to include Hebrew as one of the languages.  Social media had done it again, Reuven saw one of my tweet messages, passed it to Efrat who contacted me and the rest is history  or is becoming so.

Efrat introduced me to Tami from the Open University in Israel and  Reuven who works in the MOFET Institute in Tel Aviv.

While chatting with Reuven I commented about my excitement at the possibility of me visiting the Sea of Galilee one day and he throws out in a matter of fact sort of way. “I live about half an hour out of Jerusalem and about 5 minutes from the Way of the Patriarchs where Abraham Isaac, Jacob, King David, Amos the Prophet traveled & lived I could show you that as well. Thus began a wonderful yet challenging collaboration.  I thought wow this shouldn’t be too hard especially after Chinese and Arabic.  However the western aka English Interface of my computer somehow didn’t quite get the formatting of Hebrew and it has turned out some really creative formatting was needed to get even some of the punctuation in the correct place. 

We would like to hear from any Hebrew speaking teacher who would like to change or add some apps more useful to Israeli teachers then please connect with us. The Padagogy Wheel is certainly not statice and we will continue to improve it. 

Efrat is an educational consultant and teacher trainer who manages her own educational consultancy in the field of Digital Pedagogy. Reuven works at the International Channel of The MOFET Institute where he serves as the Academic & Content Editor of the MOFET International Jewish Education Portal.  Tami is an information specialist, instructional designer and member of the pedagogical team at the Shoham Center for Technologies in Distance Education at the Open University of Israel. We are honoured that they are collaborating with us on the Hebrew Version of the Padagogy Wheel.