Slideshare Rocks!Group Leader: Jaime Mead

Other Group Members:Birsen Canan-McGlone, Ilze Nix

Information provided is property of Thomas Nelson Community College for education purposes only.

● Online service for users to share knowledge through uploading presentations, documents, videos, and webinars on a web-based platform

● Operated by LinkedIn

● Site consists of 15 million uploads averaging over 60 million unique users each quarter.

● Similar platform to TED talks

What is Slideshare?

● Learn○ Search and find what interests you

● Share○ Share your content with others publicly or privately○ Embed slideshare into websites and blogs○ Slideshare is shareable on social media sites

■ LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter● Present

○ Present your ideas via slideshare (similar to TED talks)● Grow Your Business

○ Use slideshare to capture leads and analysis (Slideshare PRO)

Benefits of Slideshare

● Basic SlideShare is available to everyone, at no cost, no dowload required, merely navigate to www.Slideshare.net and start an account...

● However, several of the advance options are only available by ‘going PRO’ and paying the associated monthly fee...

Where to find it…?

● After presentation file is ready:● Go to www.slideShare.net

○ Don’t have an account: Sign Up for one○ Already have an account: Log in to your account

● File types can be uploaded:Presentations: pdf, ppt, pps, pptx, ppsx, pot, potx (Powerpoint); odp (Open Office)Documents: pdf, doc, docx, rtf (MS Office); odt, ods (Open Office)Videos: mp4, m4v, wmv, mpeg, avi, mov, mpg, mkv, ogg , asf , vob , 3gp, rm, rmvb, flvInfographics: pdf

● Maximum Allowed file size: 300 MBWarning: Do not Upload Materials you do not have copyrights for.

How to use it…?

Give a title to your presentation

How to use it ? Upload

Bulk Upload your file

Is important, makes your presentation searchableOptional Optional

Save and continue

Optional

● To Upload a document click

● Then choose: .

After this point follow the directions of SlideShare and find your file to be uploaded.Once the upload is completed, SlideShare guides you through certain setup steps:

Title:Category:Description:Status:Tags: Free SlideShare account does not have a choice. It is always public.

● Next option to choose, at this point, is View Presentation.

● This allows you to see your presentation how it looks on SlideShare window.

● This windows also has View Analytic which means the statistics of viewers, their comments and much more with paid subscription.

● On the top menu bar click on the right most button:

● Choose: My Uploads. Here you have a few option. The most important one is you can remove your previous uploads or edit your options.

Save and contin How to use it…?

● There are some nice presentations I found, I like to share with my students:○ The first is in Statistics, the second is in mathematics/Logic

● Because we already use online technology in our classes, I would only utilize what I find there to enhance my students learning by presenting alternatives. Is there any reason to reinvent the wheel?

Using it in my Math Course

http://www.slideshare.net/swatiluthra5/sampling-ppt?utm_source=slideshow02&utm_medium=ssemail&utm_campaign=share_slideshow

http://www.slideshare.net/PhilipPowers1/morgan-logic?utm_source=slideshow02&utm_medium=ssemail&utm_campaign=share_slideshow

1. Use slideshare to view my current introductory video for online students● Video consists of

○ welcome message○ syllabus overview○ visual walk through of blackboard course

2. Use slideshare to show videos from textbook. I usually embed videos in my powerpoints however the load time into blackboard is very slow.

Click Here: Cellular Respiration

Using it in my Biology course...

1. Using visually striking presentations as discussion openers for class - Eg below presented fascinating ideas about valentine's day that can be a great segway into a discussion on love and attraction

2. Using presentations from conferences to present class with primary sources - Eg below presented original research by author presented at an national, annual psychology conference

3. Uploading my own slides used in class for easy access to students

Using it in Psychology...

● A strength of Slideshare had been the ability to add pre-recorded MP3 files through slidecast in such a way to create an audiovisual presentation.

● Slidecast is shutting down on 30 April 2014, thus no longer allowing this option, instead only offering static presentations.

● Those still seeking a audio component will best be served going elsewhere…● Regardless, we believe slideshare still offers great benefits...

Slideshare without Slidecast