Blackboard: Using slideshare for presentations

Blackboard: Sharing your presentations with Slideshare

Lim Gaik Bee

Teaching and Learning Centre

Ngee Ann Polytechnic

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What is SlideShare?

• SlideShare is a media website that allows you to upload your slideshow presentations

• There is a free basic account and different ‘pro’ accounts which require a subscription

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Why use Slideshare?

• Students can view the slideshow in Blackboard without having to download the powerpoint file

• Files up to 100 MB can be uploaded• You can also add narration to your presentation as well as

hyperlinks to websites

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• You have to have an account with Slideshare• With the free account, what you upload is available to the

public• Animations and action buttons on your powerpoint do not

work, other than hyperlinks to websites • This means that it is not ‘interactive’ in terms of students

controlling the nagivation

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I want to try it out!

• You can sign up for a free account. However, note that your presentations are publicly available

• You also need an account if you want to download presentations uploaded by other people

Click here! www.slideshare.net

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Adding the SlideShare presentation to Blackboard

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Find your presentation• You can find your presentation using full text, tags or urls

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Using other Slidesharepresentations

• If searching for other presentations, you can preview before selecting

• Check the permissions – ‘all rights reserved’, Creative Commons etc

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Options

• Thumbnail will show as full size when View Link is clicked. • Embed Presentation will show the presentation player

directly in the page.

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Adding narration to the Slideshare presentation

• You can add narration to your presentations

• Upload as mp3 file• You can set the timings

for slide transitions

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Adjusting timings to narration

For more info, check out youtube or google it!