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Tinkering With Slideshows
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Tinkering With Slideshows
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Your Name: Post your name
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The Cats of Istanbul
It took me a while to find a suitable tool to make my slide show. Slideshare is not a tool for creating slide shows so much as a place to post my slide shows. I have been working on a Mac and tried to use iMovie but found it very complicated (although they claim it's simple) and help directions on-line were not helpful. My final cut was made with Moviemaker, a windows application, and was very easy to use. As far as my content, once I made the slide show, a million other fantastic pictures of cats came up as I walked the streets of my neighborhood. It really is a fantastic site to see colonies of cats on each street, well fed but living on the street. The cats on top of the cars seem to be the honchos and the other cats watch out for him. There was one slide of a really pathetic dirty looking cat. This is such an unusual site because as you can see from the slide show, each street sets up housing, water and food on a daily basis to take care of the cats. People just pick up the sick ones and take them to the vet.

My first embedded audio recording
Hi, Janet. Sorry for the delayed response. I have been swept up in the start of school and my daughter's recent Bat Mitzvah:) It sounds like you have a wonderful opportunity in Istanbul! So glad to hear your school is open minded about technology integration. I am intrigued by offering learning to folks in Turkey:) Tell me more about what you are thinking. I love it that you can connect with us here the the web. It is something we would have never thought would happen years back. Pretty fun and awesome!

IB for the Middle Years
Janet! Thanks so much! I usually show a few TEDx Kids videos, but this is a great example of the same type of project happening at another school.

IB for the Middle Years
Janet, I was immediately struck by how the learning was relevant to the students -- they had a "need to know" that was driven by their own lives and interests. There is nothing more powerful than this and a hallmark of connected learning.

You make the point that we can engage students by "letting them ask the questions and the find the answers." I am interested in how we can help our students be better at asking probing questions. What are your thoughts on this?

This project-based learning experience reminds me of CAPSTONE projects that are part of many schools' programs as an 8th or 12th grade culmination of studies, interests and research skills.

I sent a message to Liz with this link, by the way:)

Thank you for sharing this very interesting clip that can support connected learning, project-based learning and deep learning in general!