Thing #9 SlideShare

SlideShare or some other form of hosting program will be important for students and teachers to learn how to use, so they can easily share powerpoint and multimedia presentations online in a Facebook account or a blog or a website or an iTouch or an iPod or YouTube. When using Slideshare, the software "creates a text transcript of your PowerPoint presentations making it easier for search engines to discover your content." Social sharing with others becomes instantaneous. Creating an online portable ppt presentation gives teachers the advantage of posting reviews of class content, assignments, and student-generated work for students and parents to easily access online or even offline if the presentation has been uploaded on an iPod. The enhanced features of authorSTREAM (narration, animation, music) enables the user to be more creative in their presentation. authorSTREAM even mentions users being able to discuss an uploaded ppt. in a chat room for more Web 2.0 interaction...