Using Slideshare for Education

By: Dan Pimentel

What is Slideshare Slideshare is like YouTube, but for

presentations. Slideshare is a member of the Social

Media family, allowing users to search for and share presentations on any topic.

Presentations are uploaded by anybody, from experts to bloggers to learners to political organizations.

A YouTube video about Slideshare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gThCFssRVUw

How do you use Slideshare?1. Signup for free on the Slideshare website2. Upload your presentation3. Use keywords, i.e. SEO keywords to make

your presentation more popular on search engines

4. Share your presentation on Twitter, Facebook, or email

5. View your presentation’s stats – how many views, how many likes, how may shares, how many times embedded?

What can I upload to Slideshare?

You can upload a range of file types, including:

1. PowerPoint Presentations2. PDF Presentations3. Keynote Presentations4. Open Doc Presentations

What kind of Media can I include?

Slideshare allows users to include: 1. Text2. Pictures3. Video – web-based on non-web-based4. Links to other sites5. Infographics6. Documents7. Webinars

What’s Slideshare’s benefit to Learning?

SlideShare was voted among the World's Top 10 tools for education & e-learning in 2010.

Slideshare allows educators and learners to access presentations on any subject matter.

Students acquire knowledge from concise, well-presented content from experts in different fields.

Students absorb the same information as reading a textbook, but in a fraction of the time.

Students can share presentations and collaborate on future presentation topics.

How can teachers use Slideshare to promote learning?

Educators can search for and find useful and engaging presentations on any academic topic, or;

Create their own Slideshare presentations, or;

Instruct learners to search for and find presentations based on a specific topic, or;

How can Teachers Use Slideshare, continued…

Guide learners in creating their own Slideshare presentation, and;

Encourage learners to share presentations and collaborate with other learners.

Create a separate “page” for their school so that all presentations made from students are readily available to view.

What are the advantages for learners?

Slideshare gives learners access to over 18 million presentations.

Slideshare is facilitated by mobile learning, i.e. learning anywhere and anytime using a mobile device.

Learners can share, like, and comment on slideshare presentations, i.e. collaborative learning.

Slideshare presentations allow learners to acquire knowledge in a short period of time.

Learners can build their own audience – users who subscribe to their Slideshare presentations.

The advantages to learners, continued…

Learners can link their presentations to their social media platforms, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Learners can update their presentations at any time.

Slideshare presentations are a useful tool to help build learners’ knowledge and confidence in presenting information to a class.

Slideshare presentations are a great resource for conducting research.

What are the advantages for teachers?

Teachers can find presentations on basically any educational topic.

Teachers can create their own Slideshare presentations – students have access to presentations on their mobile devices or computers.

Teachers can instruct students to: build and share their own presentations, or search for and share others’ presentations.

Slideshare’s Social Media Advantage

Slideshare is a social media platform, and therefore, allows learners to:› Create and share Slideshare presentations

that interest them,› Embed Slideshare presentations on their

other social media platforms,› Like, comment, and share other users’

Slideshare presentations,› View statistics about their Slideshare

presentations.

Your ActivityI want you to do the following:1. Search for a Slideshare presentation on a topic of your

choosing, then2. Watch the Slideshare presentation, then3. Comment on the content in the Slideshare presentation

in the discussion board – what did you learn?4. Attach the link to the Slideshare presentation that you

viewed in the discussion board so that other students can view the same presentation.

5. Answer these questions: Do you think Slideshare is a useful tool for learners? For teachers? How would you, as a teacher, use Slideshare presentations? Can you think of any downsides to using Slideshare?

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