What is SlideShare?
SlideShare claims to be the world’s largest online community for sharing presentations (SlideShare Inc, 2009). It is an online storage site where you can upload powerpoint presentations, word documents and it also allows the user to narrate their presentations thus creating a video that can be tagged by another user, linked to a blog site, a web site or even downloaded to a computers database and viewed.
Theory and classroom uses for SlideShare
Slide Share gives students a sense of gratification as they upload their work onto the internet using blogs; they work to the best of their ability as they understand that their work is on display for others to see. Siemens Connectivism Theory (2004) is an advocate for sites connecting people such as SlideShare. It highlights the point that networks function on the simple idea that individuals can be connected in the effort to create an integrated whole.
Resources
Siemens, G. (2004), Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age, viewed 4th September 2009,
SlideShare Inc, (2009), What is Slideshare; Citing computer references. Viewed 4th September 2009, http://www.slideshare.net/about?PHPSESSID=cdcd1c967d45a922f503f2147b6d3902
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