SlideShare is a free website that allows users to create and share slideshow presentations. It can be used by teachers to share ideas and lesson plans with each other. Students can also use SlideShare to put up presentations on topics they have researched and read about in order to demonstrate their understanding to the class. While it does not support video or collaboration, SlideShare is a useful tool for both teachers and students to communicate information through slideshow format and explore presentations uploaded by others.

1. SlideShare
By
Katie Fialkowski
Sara Olsen

2. Use Of Slideshare
• Is a website that can be used to share
slideshows to others using the internet
• Is a way for other people to look at
different slideshows based on the subject of
the slideshow

3. Slideshare
• Sign up for the website is free
You pick the slideshow that you want to
post to the internet
• The person can then post a description of
the slideshow

4. Positives of Website
• Can share your slideshows that you did with
others using the web
Can look at other slideshows based on topic
to see what others have done on that topic
• Great tool for teachers to use to share
ideas with one another

5. Negatives on Website
• Can not make corrections to the slideshow
once done
There is no video/ voice recording for the
website
• You can only upload the slideshow you have
already done
You can not directly collaborate with
someone using this tool

6. Research
• According to Johanna Riddle, “If it blips, bleeps, or talks to them,
they know what to do with it”. This being said, teachers need to
learn what to do with it also. She go on to say that new teachers
know how to use technology but they need to know how to use it
as a tool not a toy.
• She also explains that students are very invested in getting their ideas
across and will use a range of formats to do this.
– By using slideshare, teachers can use this technology as a tool to have students put
up their presentations and also find other beneficial ones to look at. They can look
up different presentations by subject and view how other people present their ideas.

7. Research continued
• Kelly Gallagher is concerned that we are making students
jump through hoops just to pass the test. In doing so, the
students don’t have a “vision” of what going on in the real
world. The key is to bring in real world text so that students
can relate to them and be able to write about them.
• With slideshare, the students can read these texts and make a short
presentation of what they have read and share it with the class. It is an
easy step to give them a vision of what is happening in the world and
connect it to themselves.

8. Research continued
• According to the vodcast on New Literacies of Internet,
students need to learn how to use new and upcoming
technology. “Their futures are going to be defined by
their ability to read, write, and communicate within
network information environments.”
• Most uses for the internet are to get information. You
will get higher engagement and motivation from students
when they are taught and expected to use the internet.
– One way slideshare can help with this process is the fact that
students can look up certain information and be able to see a
presentation on it. They can also be motivated to share their
own ideas by using slideshare.