Using SlideShare

Using SlideShare View & share presentations Using SlideShare View & share presentations

What is SlideShare?
… a presentation sharing website where users can upload, view and share presentation files.
… share ideas & work-related presentations & documents.
… student work, conference presentations, classroom slides.
… embed slideshows into website or blog.
… download original PPT files (if author permits).
www.slideshare.net

How do you use SlideShare?
Share privately (friends) or publicly (everyone).
Add audio or video (YouTube) to slides.
Join groups to connect with others with similar interests.
’ Favourite’ presentation to express interest and support to author.
Share presentation by embedding on website or VLE.
Use SlideShare to market yourself, your ideas, your work.

How does SlideShare work?
Search via ‘Category’.
Upload presentation instead of sending multiple emails.
Send link to presentation or embed complete presentation into webpage.
Tag presentations to make them searchable by others.
Related presentations listed alongside your presentations based on tags and title.

SlideShare presentation explained Share : Email link to colleagues Favourite : Mark for future reference Get File : Download original presentation Share : email link to colleagues Post to : Easy embed instructions for Blogger, WordPress, Twitter, etc Presentation Controls: Next, Previous, Home, End, Full Screen

Presentation Statistics User : UserID and when presentation was uploaded to SlideShare Profile : Profile Avatar Embed : copy this code to embed presentation into your web page Statistics : Number of individual views, number of people who have marked it as a ‘favourite’, and number of individual times the presentation has been embedded in websites. Description : Presentation description

Where do you begin?
Register with SlideShare (if not already signed up).
Update account Profile settings (avatar, contact details, email address, friends, etc).
Set default settings for all presentations that you will upload (privacy, download, etc)
Upload your first presentation.
Assign appropriate ‘tags’ to presentation.

Your Presentation
Cut-and-paste ‘embed’ code into website, blog, VLE.
YouTube clip will play automatically.
Click ‘Full Screen’ to present to classroom.

What else is there?
Use to host presentations and embed / link to from own website.
Use as ‘source’ for presentations in classroom by uploading and accessing SlideShare when needed (must ensure Internet connection).
Use to ‘send’ presentations to Conference organisers.

Conference & Meetings
Create SlideShare ‘Group’ or ‘Event’.
Ask presenters to submit presentations to Group/Event.
Set presentations to private, and share with known SlideShare Group/Event users (friends).
Peer-Review presentations online with SlideShare.
Release presentations online AFTER the conference so delegates to view & download.

How can students use SlideShare?
… in exactly the same way you do, namely they:
Register
Upload
Embed / link
Share / Favourite
Use Twitter-style hashtag in description to make it easy to find all work related to class.
This reduces volume of data in email inbox.

SlideShare Widget ... what’s that?
Create ‘widget’ to display SlideShare.
Copy-and-paste code into Webpage or Blog.
Display all your presentations at once with quick-links to archived presentations.
Landscape (shown) or Portrait orientation.

Thank you for your time
David Hopkins
twitter.com/hopkinsdavid
SlideShare: hopkinsdavid

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Using SlideShare

by David Hopkins on Jul 24, 2009

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