What's so great about slideshare for educators? Check out this presentation.

1. Online Presentation Tools
Ellen Adams, Barbara Powell-
Schager, James Trask

2. What is slideshare.net?
• Slideshare.net allows users to share their personal or
professional presentations with people anywhere in the
world.
• Slideshare.net has many similar components of social
networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, and
YouTube.
• Slideshare can get your message out to anyone in the
world or to only a small group of specific individuals.

3. How can
Slideshare.net benefit educators?
• Teachers now have a resource that allows them to share
lesson presentations with the world or search for
curriculum aligned presentations to use in their own
lessons.

4. How can
Slideshare.net benefit educators?
• Now system coordinators can offer professional learning
to teachers through slideshow presentations that are
available to them when and where they need them
without intruding on instructional time
• Professional training is only a few clicks away!

5. Teacher/Staff Uses
• When creating slide shows, teachers can assign "tags"
that make them easily searchable.
• Teachers can post lecture notes for students to review,
either as preparation for a test or for a student who
is absent.
• Provides a way for teachers to offer their students
opportunities for remediation and extension.

6. • Staff members can easily share presentations without
having to email them, which can clog up inboxes.
• Files don't have to be stored on a flash drive when
traveling from place to place.
• Excellent tool for distance learners because they don't
have to download files or run them from a university
server.
Teacher/Staff Uses

7. How can Slideshare.net
benefit students?
• Students can collaborate with each other on a project in
a safe environment where only students and teacher have
access.
• Slideshare.net provides opportunity for peer editing.
• By making projects readily available teachers can provide
students with ongoing formative assessment.
• E-portfolios that can be easily shared from teacher to
teacher and school to school.
• Authentic learning tool that allows students to publish
their work.

8. What types of presentations can be
shared via SlideShare.net?
• Text only -- lecture notes, outline
• Text and images -- pictures, graphics, or clipart that
reinforces text

9. What types of presentations can be
shared via SlideShare.net?
• Slidecast -- a combination of a regular presentation and
narration
o Creates a unique version of the presentation
o Good way to practice differentiation by providing an
alternate means of interpreting information
o Allows the educator to provide insights into a slide to
create an alternate viewpoint
• Video presentations

10. What other features does
SlideShare.net have?
• Widgets
o Allows users to create feeds to their presentations on
their websites or blogs
o Allows users to create playlist of presentations on
their websites or blogs
o Enhances awareness of what content is available and
puts the learner in charge of their own learning