Seeing & Hearing

There are many diverse ways Jewish learning and education is being transmitted today!
As at Sinai they saw and heard, today that Mesorah continues in new methods. You can hear and visualize Torah in different languages, accents, perspectives all the 70 facets of Torah are represented.

just a sampling

podcasts

in the Jewish world there are many varieties

www.yutorah.org organized structure of many rosh yeshivos
www.kimitzion.org Virtual Beit Midrash

and then there are preloaded devices
the rebbepod which has all the recorded talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on a classic ipod
www.projecttransformer.com Rabbi Avigdor Miller's Lectures
www.shaspods.com

and of course there are individual teachers and rabbis that share their teachings

vodcasts

www.jewishhistory.org/ Berel Wein 5000 years of Jewish History
www.g-dcast.com The Parsha & Holidays in cartoon/educational format
www.jcastnetwork.org
www.theyeshivah.net
www.jewish.tv
www.koshertube.com

Tweeting at the Yam Suf and Beyond......

I was little skeptical about twitter and the microblogging world. What info can one short phrase offer?
Before this past shabbat I searched shabbat shira on twitter and in addition to all the birds tweeting accompanying the Jews, it was chockful of ideas, customs and links about shabbat shira.
for example : Did you know that it's a thing to eat Kasha on Shabbas Shira? I didn't know that, either! Here's a yummy recipe http://wp.me/p1BlTg-6N

I just searched tu b'shvat and there is so much fruit for thought. like- Go Green! Tu B'shvat, the new year of the trees, is Wed. Plant a tree in Israel.... http://fb.me/yUsAKfJn

I will keep following and you never known maybe a leader some day too.

Definitions

web+log = blog

web is a more modern word in this context "world wide web" and log seems to be defined how a sailor would keep a log as a diary, or in more modern times a pilot, the common denominator is that a log records the ships or flights course or journey. This may explain the initial choice of "log" in contrast to record, listing, account, book, journal, chart, diary or press. Since this a tool one can use to easily journey in and about the web and relate one personal reflections and perspectives on any given subject; whichever name he has given his "boat" the vehicle i.e. theme and course one is charting for oneself.

Torah and Technology seem as well to come from different eras, Torah translated as the Bible book and study and Technology seems to reflect very advanced and modern tools.

But if you go to their true definitions as the Lubavitcher Rebbe very often points out that the word Torah means Horaah — instruction. Each and every word and verse of Torah gives us instruction; teaching us tools how to live our lives at all times.

Techno- a combining form borrowed from Greek where it meant “art,” “skill,”  

-logy- a termination of nouns referring to writing, discourses,collections, etc.: 

they are both tools from a written form; the Torah: G-d's Divine Code, and Technology using the binary code,  both give us tools enabling us to achieve what we could do on own.