ACRE Blog

Chevre,

Many people, including me, have expressed some skepticism about the use of Twitter for educational purposes.  I have multiple Twitter accounts and rarely use them for such "high level" activity.  But much has been written about the added value of using Twitter for education, including conferences.

So, I am asking you to volunteer to be part of an experiment that focuses around a Limmud session at next week's Annual Conference of the Alliance for Continuing Rabbinic Education (ACRE).  Rabbi Shai Gluskin is going to facilitate a Limmud session focusing on a provocative text from Bava Batra 21.  Rest assured that the primary method of text study at the Conference will be one that has shown its effectiveness for 2,000 years--hevruta. But we want to see the potential value that Twitter can provide by adding more voices to the discussion than are normally heard.

That is where you come in.  We invite you to read the text and tweet your responses to the questions in advance of the Conference.  To find the text and questions, go to the Limmud tab in the 2009 ACRE Conference section of the ACRE website (www.allianceforcre.org).

For veteran tweeters, please use the hashtag "acrecon."  For those of you who did not understand the instructions in the last sentence, please go to the Bava Batra and Twitter tab in the 2009 ACRE Conference section of the ACRE website for basic instructions about the use of Twitter.  It's actually very simple to do.

So, please help us out in this experiment.  I look forward to sharing the results with you.

Moadim L'Simcha