SlideShare is an online platform for sharing presentations, documents, and videos. It allows users to find and share information publicly or privately. Users can create professional profiles, collaborate with others, and enhance their presentation skills. Instructors can use SlideShare to share course materials with students, create audiovisual presentations through SlideCasts, and encourage live collaboration through features like ZipCast. The presentation outlines several ways SlideShare can be used across disciplines to reinforce content, build interaction, and create an active online learning community.

1. Shannon McCallister
Tiffany Ray
Danielle Tarver

2. What is SlideShare?
● The world's largest online community for
sharing presentations
● Allows for professional development
● Condenses large files for easy viewing & storage

3. Advertised Uses
● Find or share information on various topics
● Create a visual business portfolio/resume
● Enhance your presentation & web building skills
● Connect with current colleagues & make new
contacts

4. Where to Get It
● Go to www.slideshare.net
● Sign up for an account
○ Advanced features $$
● Start sharing!
○ Publicly with millions of people
○ Privately with colleagues or clients

5. Using SlideShare in Online Courses
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● Find and share material with students
● Enhance viewing of presentations & websites
○ Audio-Visuals, SlideCast, Wikis, Widgets, etc.
● Encourage live collaboration through ZipCast
○ Webinars, Synchronous Classes, or Meetings

6. What is a SlideCast?
Presentation format that allows you to synchronize
audio files (recorded talks, songs, voice narrations)
with slideshare files
How to Create a SlideCast

7. Using SlideShare Across Disciplines
Create mini-lectures with SlideCast to explain difficult
concepts (such as metabolism and genetics)
Use SlideShare to embed figures at low bandwidth
Collaborative presentation on infectious disease in which
students will use SlideShare for both research & presenting

8. Using SlideShare Across Disciplines
● Demonstrate proper key reaches by embedding a video
demonstration into the SlideCast presentation
● Develop a group project for students to collaborate on a
SlideCast presentation which models proper
keyboarding technique and allows students to offer
feedback

9. Using SlideShare Across Disciplines
● Use Slideshare as a visual tool to display material in the
topics of anatomy and physiology, Sexually Transmitted
Infections (STIs), and birth control.

10. Impact of Using SlideShare
Reinforce content
Build active presence
Develop interaction & collaboration among
students
Create an active learning community

11. Need More Information?
SlideShare App on Google+ Hangouts
Information on how to present face-to-face, collaborate on projects,
hold client meetings, and create a virtual classrooms.
ZipCast
Information on Zipcast, powered by
Slideshare, to conduct live meeting,
webinars, and synchronous online
classes.
SlideShare Sharepro
Information on how to create videos, branded channels, conduct
analytics, and develop advertisement-free pages.

12. Disclaimer
This presentation is intended for
educational and informational
purposes only. The SlideShare
Ladies do not endorse any
particular product for use in the
online classroom setting.