Slideshare.net allows users to share presentations publicly or privately online. For educators, it provides benefits such as allowing teachers to share lesson materials with students or other teachers, providing professional development presentations accessible anytime, and allowing students to collaborate on projects and publish their work. Presentations can include text, images, slidecasts with narration, or videos. Features include tagging presentations to make them searchable and widgets to share presentations on websites or blogs.

1. Online Presentation Tools
Ellen Adams, Barbara Powell-
Schager, James Trask

2. What is slideshare.net?
• Slideshare.net allows users to share their personal or
professional presentations with people anywhere in the
world.
• Slideshare.net has many similar components of social
networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, and
YouTube.
• Slideshare can get your message out to anyone in the
world or to only a small group of specific individuals.

3. How can
Slideshare.net benefit educators?
• Teachers now have a resource that allows them to share
lesson presentations with the world or search for
curriculum aligned presentations to use in their own
lessons.

4. How can
Slideshare.net benefit educators?
• Now system coordinators can offer professional learning
to teachers through slideshow presentations that are
available to them when and where they need them
without intruding on instructional time
• Professional training is only a few clicks away!

5. Teacher/Staff Uses
• When creating slide shows, teachers can assign "tags"
that make them easily searchable.
• Teachers can post lecture notes for students to review,
either as preparation for a test or for a student who
is absent.
• Provides a way for teachers to offer their students
opportunities for remediation and extension.

6. • Staff members can easily share presentations without
having to email them, which can clog up inboxes.
• Files don't have to be stored on a flash drive when
traveling from place to place.
• Excellent tool for distance learners because they don't
have to download files or run them from a university
server.
Teacher/Staff Uses

7. How can Slideshare.net
benefit students?
• Students can collaborate with each other on a project in
a safe environment where only students and teacher have
access.
• Slideshare.net provides opportunity for peer editing.
• By making projects readily available teachers can provide
students with ongoing formative assessment.
• E-portfolios that can be easily shared from teacher to
teacher and school to school.
• Authentic learning tool that allows students to publish
their work.

8. What types of presentations can be
shared via SlideShare.net?
• Text only -- lecture notes, outline
• Text and images -- pictures, graphics, or clipart that
reinforces text

9. What types of presentations can be
shared via SlideShare.net?
• Slidecast -- a combination of a regular presentation and
narration
o Creates a unique version of the presentation
o Good way to practice differentiation by providing an
alternate means of interpreting information
o Allows the educator to provide insights into a slide to
create an alternate viewpoint
• Video presentations

10. What other features does
SlideShare.net have?
• Widgets
o Allows users to create feeds to their presentations on
their websites or blogs
o Allows users to create playlist of presentations on
their websites or blogs
o Enhances awareness of what content is available and
puts the learner in charge of their own learning