Slideshare

Jennifer Isbell EDP 279 Assignment 5.1 File sharing is a way of distributing or allowing access to stored digital files like images, documents, slideshows, videos and more. File sharing is a very helpful resource, it allows you to share work with group members, your community or your company. [|Slideshare] is a website for sharing presentations. It allows for you to share documents, PDFs, videos and webinars. SlideShare allows you to easily share presentations to Facebook, Twitter and imbed them into other sites. SlideShare can act as an interactive community where information can be shared, added to, connected to others information and share ideas. SlideShare ranks among the top ten resources for education and elearning. SlideShare is also regularly used by the Whitehouse and other United Sates government offices. What you can do with SlideShare: media type="custom" key="15394830"
 * Upload presentations to be viewed publicly or privately.
 * Download presentations to use or modify.
 * Imbed presentations on other websites.
 * Share on Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin.
 * Imbed YouTube videos into SlideShare presentations.

SlideShare is easy to use you simply create an account and set up your profile and start your search. You can upload your own files or simply search for other that fit your specifications. You can browse through set categories or enter information for your own search and filter the results further. You have a newsfeed very similar to that of Facebook were you can see what your followers have posted and post to yourself. You can also connect your tweets to your SlideShare profile. You can change privacy settings and manage your profile so that you only share certain information. This could be a great way to do collaborative projects or class presentation. Both students and teachers could utilize this educational tool. SlideSahre could be used to publish projects, share projects for further group editing, present projects in class or for research purposes. SlideShare has a great support section that provides helpful information on how to use SlideShare or help with problems you might be having. It also provides helpful information on problems and maintenance the site is working on at that time so that you can be aware of issues you might have.

Slideshare is a website where people can share presentations. It is the largest of its kind and has 60 million monthly visitors and 130 million page views. It was founded in 2006. Rashmi Sinha is the CEO and she was named one of the World’s Top 10 Women Infuencers in Web 2.0. Slideshare has many different features. You can upload presentations (privately or publicly), download a presentation and then remix it, put the presentations on blogs or share on other social media sites, put documents, pdfs, and videos (YouTube) on your presentation and even more. Because of the ability to add any mp3 URL to your presentation, you can create a “slidecast” (slideshare + podcast) and create a webinar, recorded lecture, or just have some music in your presentation.

Slideshare is partnered with LinkedIn, Twitter, Google Hangouts, and FreeConference.com. You can also share presentations on Facebook as well. When you put your presentations on Shareslide, viewers around the world can watch your presentation. If you have a smart phone, you can access presentations on your mobile device.

Recently in 2011, Zipcasts were added as a feature to SlideShare. This allows for audio/video while playing the presentation and also for the user to communicate during the presentation with an inbuilt chat function. This feature could be very useful for educators to use to help children who are absent for the day. By playing the presentation and talking them through the information could be very helpful. However, the student would need access to the web. This may be more beneficial for older students.

If you are looking for ideas on a topic or information, you can view other users presentations on that topic. You can use it to advertise an idea, service, or product. As college students we can use it to make a professional resume. As educators, we can use Slideshare to upload lesson plans and share with other educators. We can also view other teacher’s lesson plans that they upload through presentations. In the classroom teachers can play their presentations for the students and use it as a learning tool. SlideShare was voted as one of the World’s Top 10 tools for education and learning.

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A reference but also the homepage so use this link for more information on SlideShare and to register for your own account!

The website is very user friendly. When you access the home page the site displays the top presentations of the day, the featured presentations, the top pro content, and what’s hot on Facebook and Twitter. You can also search for presentations by category or just using the search box.