http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryIdeas
Rowan Manahan’s retelling of Cinderella layered with modern analysis is quite funny in a dry way. The slides are mainly text with a few graphs and charts; for example on page 6 is this chart showing that as Cinderella’s attractiveness increases, her quality of life decreases, and the author attributes this phenomenon to vanity and envy on the part of her wicked stepmother and sisters. Students could use this slideshow as a model to create their own slideshows analyzing a narrative (fiction or non-fiction). It could even be used as a rough draft for a paper on the topic. The slide show could be created as a group project, with small groups or pairs of students creating a slide or two as part of a larger class show.
The article also included practical tips for creating slideshows: story idea prompts, a question, a visual, and using the imagination. The page includes 50 examples of slideshows, from dog stories, to music videos, and more. The author includes a chart showing the specific tools he used to make the same story (about his dog Dominoe) in 50 versions, incorporating different technologies in each story. I appreciated the practical nature of this site, particularly since much of the technology is blocked in our school. The alternatives presented showed me ways that I could use this technology in the school setting.
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
Power Point 20th Anniversary Cinderella
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