Using SlideShare in T&L

Mohamed Amin Embi

What is SlideShare?

SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations.

Besides presentations, SlideShare also supports documents, PDFs, videos & webinars.

Why use SlideShare?

SlideShare was recently voted amongst the World's Top 10 tools for education & elearning.

SlideShare features a vibrant professional & educational community that regularly comments, favorites & downloads content.

SlideShare content spreads virally through blogs & social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter.

Why use SlideShare?

Teachers & organizations can upload documents to SlideShare to share ideas, conduct research, connect with others, & generate leads for their work.

Teachers/learners can view presentations & documents on topics that interest them, download them & reuse or remix for their own work.

Components in SlideShare

Upload presentations publicly or privately.

Download presentations on any topic & reuse or remix.

Embed on blogs, websites, institution intranets.

Components in SlideShare

Share on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.

Leadshare: generate business leads with your presentations, documents, pdfs, videos

Components in SlideShare

Slidecast: sync mp3 audio with slides to create a webinar.

Embed YouTube videos inside SlideShare presentations.

GET STARTED WITH

SLIDESHARE

STEP 1

Go to:http://www.slideshare.net/

STEP 2Sign in/Sign up

If you already have Slideshare account, you can

start login. You also can login using Facebook

account.Insert your username or email and password.

Click ‘LOGIN’

Click ‘SIGN up’

Insert your details here

STEP 3Search slide presentation

Insert the keyword of the slide you want to search

Click ‘Search’

Select the slide you like to

open.

This is the example of the

presentation view and tools.

STEP 4Upload presentation

Click ‘Upload publicly’ (all can view

your file).

If you have “Slideshare Pro” account, you can

‘Upload privately’.

At the bottom of the Slidashare page, click

‘UPLOAD’

Select the presentation from your file. If you want to

upload more than one files use Ctrl key. (you also can

upload documents and PDF)

Now your presentation is in the Slideshare and everyone can view it.

STEP 5Adding Youtube video

to Slideshare presentation

To start edit your presentation, click

‘My Uploads’

Choose the presentation you want to add the video and click ‘Edit’

Go to ‘Insert YouTube videos’ tab.

At ‘YouTube’ web, find the video you want to insert in

your presentation then, copy the URL.

Paste the ‘YouTube video

URL’ here.

Select the position to insert your video in the

presentation.

Next, click ‘Insert & Publish’ and you are

done.

To add another video, you can click

here.

If you want to remove the video you’ve

inserted, tick at remove box and click ‘Remove

Selected’

STEP 6Posting a comment

To start comment, at the presentation slide view, go to the bottom of the page.

Write your comment here. Then, click ‘Post

Comment’

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