Today a student was thinking with more innovation than I was and this led to some perseverance on his part and some learning on my part. I loved every second of it!
This student had been diligently working on a project about the Titanic displaying all the knowledge he had gained through reading books and researching on the web. He had artfully created colored text boxes, sharp looking topic headings in each box and had imported eye catching pictures of the Titanic to support his text.
But was he satisfied with his final project? No!
Was he going to settle with just these items on his final product like everyone else? No!
He posed the question, "Can I find a video about the Titanic and put it on my project?" Sure! Why not!
He and I tried every which way we could think of to get a video from the web onto his Pages document. We tried clicking and dragging like you can do with an image. Nope, didn't work. We tried using the embedding code. Nope, that didn't work either. Then we came to the thought of trying to create a live link to the video on the web. Bingo! That worked!
Because of this student's creativity, and his perseverance in wanting this video on his project, it pushed me to not give up on trying solutions to fulfill his wishes. I appreciate him having patience, and maybe some faith, in me and my abilities! It was wonderful to see his eyes light up with excitement when we got the link to work!
Cool ... and kudos to both you and your student for not giving up. What is Pages? Can you get to the html code of the page, and then embed the video? Just wondering.
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Pages is Apple's version of Microsoft Word. You have me wondering now about html code as a possibility.....and this is where I am lacking in "techie" skills! :)
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