Anyone can view presentations & documents on topics that interest them, download them and reuse or remix for their own work

Landscape

1. Community - The world's largest community for sharing presentations. 2. Statistics - 60 million monthly visitors3. Worldwide- Among the most visited 200 websites in the world. 4. Accessibility: Besides presentations, SlideShare also supports

documents, PDFs, videos and webinars.5. Inclusion: social aspects -

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SlideshareCommunity

Professional

Educational

commenting

Blogs

downloading

Individuals

Sharing Ideas, conducting

Research Contacting

others, Generating Leads for their

business

Organisations

recently votedamongst the World's Top 10 tools for education & elearning

SlideShare finds reference in hundreds of published books on internet, Web 2.0, technology (search "slideshare" on Google boo

SlideShare is regularly used by the Whitehouse and many other US govt departments

SOME POINTS OF NOTE – Slideshare

Slidecast: sync mp3 audio with slides to

create a webinar

Embed on blogs, website

s, company intranets Share

through social media

Leadshare: generate business leads

with your presentations, docume

nts, pdfs, videos

Download presentations on any topic and reuse or

remix

Use SlideShare PRO for premium features like

branded channels, analytics, ad free

pages etc

Embed YouTube videos inside

SlideSharepresentations

public or private Upload presentations

Some things you can do with Slideshare

SlideShare ? The Sharing

Platform

SlideShare ? The Sharing

Platform

SlideShare ? The Sharing

Platform

Example Who uses slideshare

Individuals

Professionals such as Teachers

Share lessons plans

To Share ideas with wider audience

Collaborate with students

http://blog.slideshare.net/2013/10/15/the-future-what-businesses-need-to-know/index.html

http://blog.slideshare.net/category/tips-and-best-practices/index.html

http://blog.slideshare.net/category/tips-and-best-practices/page/7/index.html

SLIDESHARE USES

CrowdsourcingCrowdsourcing is the online gathering of a group of people to share knowledge and wisdom to build a better product

CROWDFUNDING?Gathering funds?

TINKERING – PEOPLE CAN PLAY WITH SLIDESHARE ADDING AUDIO AND VIDEO ETC

Help and support is available

http://help.slideshare.com/home

PROGRESSIVE CULTURE OF SLIDESHARE

SlideShare's mission is to build the world's largest social content network“

SlideShare started in 2006 with presentations, but has since gone beyond and supports documents, podcasts, webinars, professional videos, webmeetings. It helps content be shared with the world, so you can discover people through content and content through people. SlideShare's vibrant community consists of professionals, educationists, businesses, non profits, governments etc.

And growing rapidly.http://www.slideshare.net/about/workatslideshare#tabs=tab-1

Issues that I see with using Slideshare inAccessibility?COSTS TO GO PROTerms of Service restrictive ?http://www.slideshare.net/termsInclusion?Restricted to certain Social NetworksOur Policy Toward Childrenhttp://www.slideshare.net/privacy

How can H818 students use Slideshare

Use slideshare in a community way http://www.slideshare.net/community_guidelines

Use Filters http://www.slideshare.net/most-liked/category/books?page=11. Search by category – books, education, career etc2. Search by type- Presentations, Infographics, Documents

, videos, slides with audio,3. Try different language formats4. Search by period

SlideShare Influencers Start following them and get their content delivered to youhttp://www.slideshare.net/who-to-follow-on-slideshare?cmp_src=newsfeed_real&utm_source=start_following&utm_medium=sssite&utm_campaign=newsfeed_real