SlideShare is “the world’s largest community for sharing
presentation. With 55 million monthly
visitors and 120 million pageviews, it is amongst the most visited 200 websites
in the world” (http://www.slideshare.net/about). SlideShare is a great way to save all your
presentation slides in one location where you can access them with a common URL
anytime you need access to them.
Additionally, each presentation can be either linked to or incorporated
into a blog, a post, a web page, a report, etc…
Hart (2011) indicated that presentations could be:
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Viewed at the site – where you can see status on
usage
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Individually embedded into a web or blog page
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Embedded as a SlideShare Playlist (p. 154).
Bozarth (2010) highlights that SlideShare is useful for
trainers who want to distribute either a powerpoint slide presentation or a pdf
file via Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking application.
One effective use of adding SlideShare presentations to a
web page, or a blog page, can be found at Harold Jarche’s web page,
Life in
Perpetual Beta. Jarche has a
separate tab for all of his SlideShare presentations incorporated into his web
page. These presentations can be found
at
http://www.slideshare.net/jarche Another use of incorporating SlideShare
presentations in a blog can be found at Clive Shepherds’ blog page,
Clive
on Learning. Clive add a link to
his SlideShare presentations which can be found at
http://www.slideshare.net/clives.
References:
Bozarth, J. (2010). Social media for trainers: Techniques
for enhancing and extending learning.
San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.
Hart, J. (2011). Social learning handbook. Center for
Learning & Performance Technologies, C4LPT.