2. Presentation
SlideShare is a Web 2.0 platform in which users can
upload public or private power point presentations. It
was originally created for business to share slides
among employees more easily.
It has similar functions like YouTube, because you can
comment, other’s people work. Furthermore, it allows
you to find more interesting information about the field
you are studying.
SlideShare was acquired by Linkedln in 2012 and it also
supports formats suchs as PDF, Keynote or
OpenDocument. In 2010, was voted among the World’s
Top 10 tools for education & e-learning.
3. SlideShare for teaching purposes
I would teach my students to create and upload
presentations using SlideShare, I would assign a topic,
and them I would encourage learners to research that
topic, summarizing it and finally designing a
presentation to be posted in SlideShare.
SlideShare offers opportunities for cooperative
learning: I would encourage students to work in group,
develop a project and share it as a SlideShare
presentation.
Lectures will be more interesting with SlideShare:
Instead of boring students with thousand of texts, I
would teach content through Slide presentations, this
will allow students to take notes more easily and build
knowledge branches through well-presented
information.
4. Why SlideShare is important?
One of the most important reasons of using SlideShare-
based activities in the classroom, is that it can facilitate
the cooperation and sharing of knowledge between the
students. Also, they can review, upload and create
presentations about any kind of subject, and make them
available for all users in the web; this support the view
learning is a socially constructed process. According to
Claudia Birney, (2013) SlideShare will benefit students
greatly because:
It allows them to share important content that can
edify other viewers and learners.
It gives the possibility of learning new materials in a
didactic presentation format.
It promotes creativity in the classroom and emphasizes
in technology as an aid for learning.
5. Padilla, J. (2016). SlideShare. Retrieved from,
http://es.slideshare.net/JuliusMarley/slideshare-57743743?qid=c2998d15-2eef-
47bf-9948-7de30228e1a2&v=&b=&from_search=7
Birney, C. (2013). Web 2.0 Slideshow Tool (SlideShare). Retrieved from,
https://prezi.com/bykwa-zjvadk/web-20-slideshow-tool-slideshare/
Wikipedia. (n.d.). SlideShare. Retrieved from,
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlideShare
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