Sharing Presentations
February 2, 2008 by mlower
SlideShare is a website for sharing presentations for free. You can also create a SlideSpace which is your private area for organizing presentations that you have uploaded or used. Just search a topic and see what is available. A chemistry teacher that I work with had previously found a whole set of PowerPoint presentations that another teacher had created. With a few modifications, he was able to utilize most of the material. We all wish that we had more time to create material to use with technology for our classrooms and here is a way to accomplish that while saving time. Isn’t sharing great!
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These are great sites that I want to explore later. (It is 3am and I need to get to sleep (spent 8 hours creating a 30 minute video of our vacation in Arizona to share with family tomorrow. It is the pre-game show at our house. ) I love it when I find good tools that are free AND where my students can store their work. Muliti-media projects are so large and schools have limited storage size on site. I purchased a portable hard drive (130 gig) to store my students’ projects while they are working on them. Thanks for sharing.
I think it’s great that we have such technology that we can, as teachers, share common presentations that we have for our students. I have many ppts that I use for my graduate students and they really learn well with them. I will begin to share them as I learn more about “how” to do that online! : ) Have a great day!
I had no idea that this type of technology existed. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. It is quite timely too since I have to do a presentation next week and I am unsure of the technology that will be available at the library that I am going too. I can save my ppt to these sites and have it readily available. PLUS I am going to have great fun exploring some of the slide shows!
I recently had a need for this site, but also did not know that it was available. I tried Google Docs, but that site does not host this type of file. So many people are off the broadband web, and even if you do have satellite, you usually have a download limit for 24 hours. People with dial up find it almost impossible to download large files.
Another benefit of the Slide Share program is that you can download and save the files. This makes it possible for you to modify the slide show to your own needs. What a great place to get a start on bringing powerful photos to your students!
Thank you for sharing this with us, Mindy.
Sarah
I just spent about 15 minutes exploring the different slide presentations. Naturally I liked the “I Am Knowledge Worker 2.0″ (http://www.slideshare.net/trib/i-am-knowledge-worker-20). The slide that really caught my attention was “continuous partial attention”. I do believe this is a great definition for a multi-tasker. This tool just didn’t seem to have presentations that I believe will fit or be tweaked for an information literacy class. On the other hand, I am grateful that I may be able to find a presentation as a starting point for my own.
Wow! Have you ever opened a box that you thought was empty and found a treasure? That’s how I feel about this sight. I am not a fan of powerpoint presentations in class because I think the presentation part of them is always boring and disengaging for the students. But this sight gives me the templates for presentations that I could tweek to fit my personality. And the interactive games are really nice!
Thanks for the link!
Lisa Johnson-Bowers