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jbop (pronounced "jay-bop") is our interactive activity center for elementary-age students of congregational and day schools. For use both in school and at home, bop Version 3 now has 25 Activity Packs, including all the Holidays.
What's new in Version 3? There are 5 new Activity Packs, all part of the Holidays set: Rosh Ha-Shana, Yom Kippur, Simhat Torah, Rosh Hodesh and Lu'ah Ha-Shana. The Hebrew content has been significantly enhanced, with two activities, the Animated Storyteller and What's That Story?, now in both Hebrew and English. This new functionality, which has also been added to the 20 existing Activity Packs, will make bop especially useful for day school educators and their students.
How bop works
bop offers a new strategy for congregational and community schools, which - extends Jewish learning beyond the classroom and into the home,
- increases children's enthusiasm about Jewish learning and adds hours to their "Jewish engagement time",
- provides new opportunities for children to express their Jewish voice, and
- invites parents to become more involved with their children's Jewish education.
Families install the bop Activity Center program and Activity Packs on their home computers. The software and the Activity Packs are installed either from a CD-ROM or by download from the Internet.
JBOP runs off-line. Connection to the Internet is only needed to register the product and to download additional Activity Packs. (If you don't have an Internet connection, don't worry - there is an alternative.) bop requires Windows 98 (or upwards) and is not currently Mac-compatible.
When a topic is presented in the classroom — holidays, values, Bible, prayer and ritual, Israel, Hebrew — students can be asked to do a
corresponding bop Activity Pack in the computer lab or at home, and will then enjoy some of the most exciting interactive software ever applied to Jewish learning, including:- creating original animations for Jewish stories;
- learning, arranging, and recording Jewish songs and prayers;
- viewing "multimedia midrashim" and decoding secret messages;
- mastering Hebrew vocabulary through interactive games;
- playing interactive question-and-answer games.
All of the students' creative output, as well as a computerized "star chart" of completed activities, can be printed or emailed, so work can be easily viewed by a teacher and shared with classmates.
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