Slideshare Test
- 1. Web 2.0 –Slideshare Owen McFadden
- 2. What is Slideshare? Slideshare is “the world’s largest community for sharing presentations” Allows users to: upload presentations publicly or for private groups download presentations on any subject sync audio to presentations share and connect with social networks
- 3. History of SlideShare Founded in October of 2006 Originally intended for businesses to share slides among employees more easily Expanded to include presentations for entertainment in addition to the professional ones already being uploaded Brings in an estimated 58 million unique visitors a month
- 4. Current Slideshare Usage Used by many businesses to share presentations between coworkers used by the likes of NASA, the White House, United Nations, and Dell Zipcasts: a social web conferencing system developed by Slideshare that allows users to broadcast an audio/video feed over their slide show
- 5. Current Slideshare Usage (cont’d) Slideshare can also be used to conduct research Presentations can be downloaded and remixed by any user Users can also upload documents, PDFs, and videos Users can rate and comment on content
- 6. Using Slideshare inthe Classroom Students can upload school presentations to Slideshare to be reviewed by their teachers or peers Students can also use Zipcasts to work on slideshow projects together from home Teachers can search for presentations to use in their classroom lessons
- 7. Using Slideshare inthe Classroom (cont’d) Students can take presentations from Slideshare and incorporate them into other projects or papers as additional resources If students need to get the word out about a class project or fundraiser, they can use Slideshare as a platform