Slideshare: New and Easy-to-Use Web-based Tool

Charles J. Ansorge

April 2007

Latest Quick LTA

Have you ever wanted to share PowerPoint slides with students or colleagues?

Variety of ways this may be doneOne of simplest ways is to use recent

web service called SlideSharehttp://slideshare.net/

Slideshare

Free service Subscribe to the service and then upload to the

site Logo for the site

Slides for this Quick LTA have been uploaded

Slideshare (cont’d)

Potential Uses for Slideshare

Way to archive PowerPoint presentations

Means to share presentation slides made at conferences

Method of posting class presentations in public place for comment

Uses (cont’d)

Way to create a picture montage of

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Uses (cont’d)

Posting PowerPoint slides for academic course

Backup for making presentation at conference where internet access available

Slideshare

Released in October 2006

Free service

Permits users to upload PowerPoint, PDF or Open Office files and share them through a YouTube-like interface

Uploading Files

First create an account

From “Home” site click on Upload button

Navigate to where the PowerPoint, PDF, or OpenOffice document located on hard drive

Click on Upload radio button

Uploading Files (cont’d)

Each set of slides has its own unique URLhttp://www.slideshare.net/cansorge/low-thr

eshold-applications/

All slides are public

Limitations of Slideshare

Limited to 30 MB for slide file

No sharing or privacy options

Original presentations may not be downloaded by publisher or viewer

Features

Possible to share slides

Subscribe to producer of slides (RSS)

Save favorites

Enter comments on slides

Control the size of viewing window

Summary

Slideshare is a clean, fast, and functional web-based program

Price is right

Appears to be growing in popularity

Give it a tryhttp://www.slideshare.net