SlideShare-RZieg

Slideshare Ryan Zieg = What is slideshare? =

Slide Share is a wonderful tool for easily uploading and displaying slideshows, videos, and more. They can be viewed and accessed by anyone, anywhere; so they make for a great tool with wonderful accessibility for both students and other teachers! Not only can you create and display your own presentations, you can also search the website for presentations that others have made! This offers the ability to display another's work if it is pertinent to the topic of instruction, or allow students to create their own presentations which they can share with the class and other students.As presentations are a very important aspect of teaching, this is a great website that provides a worry and hassle free venue through which teachers can share important lessons with their students at school, or even in the homes of the students they are instructing.

= Why should I use slideshare? =

Slideshare allows you to:
 * 1) Upload existing slideshow presentations from your computer that are available anywhere and on any computer!
 * 2) Search for existing presentations from other users that you can use to enhance a lesson.
 * 3) Have your students create their own presentations at home that can be accessed in the classroom.
 * 4) Give students the opportunity to revisit a lesson from the day by viewing the presentation in its entirety instead of relying on handouts.
 * 5) Enhance teacher/parent collaboration by allowing the parents of students to view the material covered in class and learn with their children at home.
 * 6) Embed your slideshow into other websites for easy access.
 * 7) Save time and hassle of transferring files from computer to computer via USB drive or email with attachments.
 * 8) Avoid any Mac/PC compatibility issues of transferred files.
 * 9) Show Powerpoint presentations on computers that do not have the proper software.
 * 10) Collaborate with other teachers and share ideas/presentations with colleagues anywhere in the world.

= = = How does slideshare help with teaching diversity? =

Slideshare can help with diversified instruction by:
 * 1) Allowing students to work together to create their own presentations. As a teacher, group work is a great avenue of helping students to celebrate cultural, social, ethnic, and other diversities that exist. When students are working together during group settings, a presentation could be used as a formative assessment through which the students are able to demonstrate what they have created/learned; as well as allowing them the opportunity to rely on and learn more about one another
 * 2) Sharing the works of other students with their parents at home. Because of slideshare's accessibility, any student with an internet connection at home is able to access any presentation that has been uploaded. This will allow parents of students to enjoy and appreciate the diverse students within their child's group presentation, or get a better understanding of other groups' diversities by viewing the presentation that they created.
 * 3) Enabling students that struggle with concept retention easy access to the direct information from the teacher. Some students struggle to grasp concepts during the initial presentation, so being able to access the presentation at home will help to allow significant learning to occur. By allowing the student to control the speed of the presentation, further understanding will be able to take place. This is can also allow ELL students the opportunity to slow down the presentation and look up any words that may seem unfamiliar without falling behind or missing a section of the presentation.
 * 4) Providing students of diverse backgrounds the opportunity to tell their classmates about themselves. A great early project for a semester could be to have students create "Getting to know you" presentations which would highlight and demonstrate differences among the vast array of cultures and backgrounds that students come from. Upon completion, and once the presentations have been uploaded, the students could then present them to the class. This is an idea that I look forward to using in my classroom in the future!

= How do I use slideshare? =

Follow these easy instructions! (This assumes that you have finished creating a PowerPoint presentation which is now saved on your computer)


 * Step 1:** Go to [|www.SlideShare.net]
 * Step 2:** Create an account. They offer free accounts through which you may upload and present slide shows (such as powerpoint presentations); or paid accounts that offer video uploading.


 * Step 3:** Once you are signed in, click on the orange ** Upload ** button on the top bar in the middle (right next to the search box).


 * Step 4: ** Find the file on your computer that you would like to upload and select it. While it is converting you can add a title, select the category, and add a description of your presentation.

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 * Step 5:** Once you have uploaded your file, you're done! You can now copy either the URL in the address box to provide people with easy access to the website of your slideshow, or you can copy the embed address and add it as a widget to any webpage you have created! I have uploaded an example of an embedded slideshow for you to view (this was a presentation I created for my Methods of Teaching class last semester; it's just for demonstration purposes).