Challenge #8 - Posting and Sharing Slideshows

In challenge #6, we offered a way to share documents on-line. Now we will show you how to share slideshows too.



Time to Share Slideshows


Well, sharing slideshows has several advantages.

First, you can post your slideshows for others. This could be useful for students who missed class or simply want to re-watch the slideshow. It can also be useful to other teachers who would like to use your slideshow in their classes.

Second, you can peruse other slideshows. Sites like slideshare have users who offer hundreds of slideshows. There is bound to be one or two that you find interesting and relevant to your class. Or one or two that your students mind find useful in supplementing their learning.

Third, slideshare allows others to actually download your presentation. This could be useful because a student could quite easily locate your slideshow, download it to their computer at home and then upload it to their iPods so they have the slideshow with them.

Fourth, slideshare works easily with blogger. Once you have uploaded a presentation, you can quickly embed it in your blog. This way, a student could go to your blog and watch the presentation . . . or download to their computers.

Finally, many of you have your students create slideshows for your classes. Instead of hogging up computer memory or juggling them all on a memory stick or external hard drive, simply have them create slideshare accounts and watch and evaluate them on line.

Other possibilities -

I prefer slideshare.


But there are other sites that work well.

You can upload presentations (and create them as well) using google docs. However, I use keynote exclusively, and google docs accepts Powerpoint. Now, you can convert keynote presentations to powerpoint files. When I tried this, though, I not only had trouble converting my keynote slideshows to Powerpoint, but I also was unable to upload them to google docs.

Another interesting site is voicethread. This allows you to share and create slideshows. While you can do the same on google docs, this site allows you to use audio in your presentation. There are also numerous slideshows on here for you or your students to watch and download.

Our challenge to you:

Upload one of your presentations to slideshare (or google docs if you are a Powerpoint user). Then embed it in your blog to share with others.

On Monday Kenny, Jeff, and I presented a Keynote slideshow to the school board regarding our involvement over the past five years or so in the MNHS grant we have been involved in. I uploaded it to my blog for others to see or download.

History Presentation

View more presentations from Kurt Reynolds.

Or

Find a presentation from another teacher or expert and embed it to your blog to share with others.

Points of Discussion for your Blog

• Did you find this challenge easy or difficult?
• Is this tool something that you might continue to use? Why or why not?
• How might this impact your classroom?

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